Publications by authors named "M I San-Martin"
Background: In medicine, empathy refers to a predominantly cognitive attribute (rather than an emotional one), which is important as a foundation for positive physician-patient relationships. Physicians with a narcissistic personality trait have an assortment of characteristics that undermine their interpersonal functioning in clinical encounters with their patients. Evidence suggests an inverse relationship between empathy and certain characteristics of a narcissistic personality trait in general population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The COVID-19 pandemic introduced unprecedented challenges to medical education systems and medical students worldwide, making it necessary to adapt teaching to a remote methodology during the academic year 2020-2021. The aim of this study was to characterize the association between medical professionalism and dropout intention during the pandemic in Peruvian medical schools.
Methods: A cross-sectional online-survey-based study was performed in four Peruvian medical schools (two public) during the academic year 2020-2021.
Although there is evidence that recognizing pseudowords is more difficult than recognizing words during childhood, adulthood, and early old age (60-75 years), it is not yet clear what happens during advanced aging or the fourth age, a stage when the decline of fluid intelligence strongly affects processing speed, but a good performance of crystallized intelligence is described through an increase in vocabulary and knowledge. The objective of this study was to determine the lexicality effect in advanced aging, specifically exploring how the ability to recognize words and pseudowords (ortho-phonologically plausible for Spanish) is affected during the third and fourth-ages. The lexicality effect was measured using naming and lexical decision tasks.
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- Microbiological control in dentistry faces challenges due to drug-resistant microorganisms, prompting the use of Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) as an effective technique for reducing microbial presence.
- PDT involves using a photosensitizer dye followed by exposure to low-power lasers, making it applicable across various dental specialties, particularly in pediatric dentistry where microorganism management is critical.
- The article reviews the specific protocols for PDT application in children’s dentistry, emphasizing the importance of parameters like photosensitizer type and light delivery methods, while highlighting ongoing research to optimize its use in clinical practice.