The European Higher Education Area, which was defined after Bologna Declaration (1999), promotes the increase of mobility between students, professors and researchers, as well as new student-based learning procedures.

To adapt Physiology teaching to these requirements, the Spanish Society of Physiological Sciences (SECF) has developed a framework program which meets several new criteria emerging from the new European Higher Education Area. Once the program has been elaborated we should debate about the new methodology this new educational scenario demands.

Grades with Physiological teaching include: i) Medicine, Pharmacy, Veterinary, Odontology, Nursery and Matron, all of them with specific regulations in the European Directive 36/2005/EC and integrated in Health Sciences; ii) Biology, which is integrated in Sciences and has specific legal professional competence regulations and iii) several others Health Science's grades including Podiatric, Physiotherapy, Nutrition, among others, which have no specific regulations. Therefore, we have developed a program for teaching Physiology in these last grades aimed to promote transversality and mobility of the students.

This program is based in establishing two modules; a common and a specific one. The common module mainly comprises the basic concepts organized in the several classical physiological systems. The contents of the specific module will include detailed features of each grade aimed to obtain the specific professional competences each grade requires.