The head of the tissue engineering group at ibs.GRANADA, Antonio Campos receives the International Prize for Medical Education 'Antonio Gallego'

The head of the tissue engineering group at ibs.GRANADA and professor of Histology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Granada (UGR)  Antonio Campos Munoz He has received the Antonio Gallego International Prize for Medical Education, which is awarded biannually by the Spanish Society for Medical Education. This award is awarded biannually by the Spanish Society for Medical Education, and the award ceremony took place on Wednesday, November 6, in Salamanca.

The purpose of the award is to distinguish personalities from the field of Health Sciences who have stood out for their scientific and academic work, for their social projection and international diffusion, and who have contributed significantly to the development of Medical Education.

Previous winners include figures from Spanish medicine such as Professor José María Segovia de Arana, promoter in Spain of the MIR program, the National Transplant Organization, the Health Research Fund (FIS) and the specialty of Family Medicine. .

Among the international winners, the Polish Andrzej Wojtczack and the Latin American Pablo Pulido stand out, former presidents of the European Association of Medical Education and the Pan-American Federation of Medical Schools, respectively, and important reformers of medical education in Europe and Latin America. Likewise, the award given in its day to Professor Miriam Friedman from the United States, a world leader in the evaluation of Medical Education, stands out.
 
Recognition to Head of the tissue engineering group at ibs.GRANADA

Professor Antonio Campos receives the 2019 Antonio Gallego Award for his contribution to Medical Education in Spain and Latin America, both in its disciplinary field, histology and tissue engineering (of whose introduction in medical teaching he is a pioneer in Spain through the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Granada), as well as for his contribution as president of the Conference of Deans of Medicine of Spain, president of the European Association of Faculties of Medicine, director of the Carlos III Health Institute and academic of the Royal Spanish Academy of Medicine.

Among its institutional contributions are the creation of the Cajal Plan for mobility among medical students at Spanish Faculties, a model for the future SICUE-SENECA plan; the linking of the Spanish and European faculties to the Continuing Medical Training process; the creation of the Department of Teaching Methodology at the National School of Health of the Carlos III Institute and the Co-Direction of the Dictionary of Medical Terms and the Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Medical Terms of the Royal National Academy of Medicine.

The award bears the name of Antonio Gallego in homage to the professor at the Madrid School of Medicine who inspired the greatest reform of medical education in Spain in the second half of the XNUMXth century.