[Educational and evaluation strategies in the training of physician specialists].

Background: Teaching strategies have been defined as procedures, means or resources that teachers used to promote meaningful learning.

Aim: Identify teaching strategies and evaluation used by the professor with residents in tertiary hospitals health care.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted with full, associate and assistant professors of various medical specialties.

[Knowledge of the Advance Directive (AD) in Physicians at Tertiary Care Hospitals].

Unlabelled: The Advance Directive is generally conceptualized as the respect that all human beings deserve in the use of their faculties, to deliberate, choose, and decide upon everything that pertains to their existence, including their life goals and personal health.

Objective: To identify knowledge about the AD that Medical Residents at tertiary care facilities of the Mexican Social Security Institute (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, IMSS) in the District Capital (Mexico City), possess.

Method: Written survey with 10 questions for Medical Residents (MR) of different specialties at tertiary care hospitals.

The epidemiology of fungemia in an infectious diseases hospital in Mexico city: A 10-year retrospective review.

The epidemiology of invasive fungal infections has recently changed in immunosuppressed populations as a result of HIV infection, organ transplant, chemotherapy and in elderly patients. The diagnosis of invasive fungal infections by culture is prolonged since fungi grow slowly in vitro. we wanted to estimate the frequency of fungemia diagnoses established through the Clinical Mycology Laboratory over the past 10 years; through a retrospective study; data was obtained from the laboratory patient registry in the Infectious Disease Hospital's laboratory registry of patients with a systemic fungal isolate between 2005 and 2014.

[Expression of the concept of death by residents of a tertiary hospital].

Introduction: Attitudes of health professionals are based on their conditions and personal life experiences about life and death and are part of their professional behavior. Medical training relies mainly on physical-biological sciences and, to a lesser extent, on social-medical aspects, thus forming the physician's concept about death. These concepts may present themselves as a result of culture and as factors that model or limit the cognitive development of the physicians.