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Construction of thematic networks of the standards of excellence for the accreditation of education in Mexico
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.