Published 2025-09-12
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Construction of thematic networks of the standards of excellence for the accreditation of education in Mexico

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15332/0wspxx38
Arturo García Rillo Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México

Background: The reference frameworks of the agencies in charge of accrediting medical education have differences in their methodological approaches for their construction; For this reason, the study was carried out with the objective of identifying the latent thematic networks in the standards of excellence of the 2018 self-assessment instrument used by the Mexican Council for the Accreditation of Medical Education in the evaluation process of the educational programs of the medical schools. Methods: A qualitative, interpretive, inductive and documentary study was carried out in four stages. For the analysis of 40 standards, text mining, content analysis and construction of thematic networks were used. Results: 6 categories were identified that concentrate 159 key terms that were represented in 9 thematic networks with the following central key terms: ethical principles, research in medical education, curriculum, learning process, professional examination, feedback, students, ICT, and institutional effectiveness, constituting the drivers of standards of excellence. Conclusions: the agglomeration pattern of the thematic networks structures the standards in a pattern represented by the ethical principles professional examination bisector. 

keywords: accreditation, networks, medical education, lexical density, stylometry, COMAEM
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García Rillo, A. (2025). Construction of thematic networks of the standards of excellence for the accreditation of education in Mexico. Revista Interamericana De Investigación Educación Y Pedagogía RIIEP, 17(1), 297-324. https://doi.org/10.15332/0wspxx38
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