OBJECTIVE:

To compare the educational environments created by the professors who attended the Regional Center of Teachers Training to those who did not attend it.

MATERIAL AND METHODS:

An instrument was developed to explore the educational environment that every professor creates for students with indirect technique, with double statements in accordance to the passive and participative focus of the education they approached of the type and frequency of activities carried on regularly in the educational process, validated by rounds of experts, with a final version of 60 statements and six indicators. The instrument was applied to 480 residents (students) from the different specialization courses in 10 hospitals from a Delegation of the Mexican Institute of Social Security corresponding to 82 professors evaluated. For the statistic analysis was used Chi 2 with Yates correction, the odds ratio with confidence intervals and the U of Mann Whitney. The Kuder Richardson test was used to determine the instruments consistency.

RESULTS:

There were no significant differences (p > .50) when comparing the educational environment created by the professors who attended the training courses at the Center and those who did not attend. The odds ratio to evaluate if training creates a more participative environment for students was of 1.84 (IC 0.94-2.92).

CONCLUSION:

There are limitations in the courses for teachers training and that is because a profound change has not been accomplished in the graduates to allow a turn in their teaching experience to an education that promotes the elaboration of knowledge (participative) by the students, when they return to their medical units. It is necessary to reorient the educational process.