[The ENARM and the schools and faculties of medicine. An analysis that nobody will like].

In Mexico, the career of Doctor of Medicine has been considered as a prerequisite stage to access the specialization. Of course the majority of medical graduates aspire to undertake postgraduate courses in the different institutions that have a university program. The Examen Nacional de Aspirantes a Residencias Médicas (ENARM) (National Evaluation for Medical Residency Applicants) has become for the supporters a gap between the possibility of practicing the profession in a decent way and with a regular remuneration or exercising it in very limited conditions and with low economic income or even without exercising it. For educational institutions, the ENARM and the percentages of selection of their graduates are indicators of efficiency and a source of prestige and even of propaganda among the aspirants to study medicine. In this study, we carried out an analysis of the results of the ENARM in the last 15 years. For this we refer to the reports of the Postgraduate and Continuing Education Committee of the CIFRHS of the Directorate of Health Education of the General Directorate of Quality and Health Education Of the Undersecretariat of Innovation and Quality of the Ministry of Health, from the examination carried out in 2001 to the one carried out in 2016.