[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.

Interferon γ in patients with HIV/AIDS and suspicion or latent tuberculosis infection.

Objective: To assess the usefulness of IGRA test (QuantiFERON(®)-Cell mediated immune) compared with the tuberculin skin test.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out in Mexico, 25 infected patients with HIV-AIDS and the suspicion or with latent tuberculous infection (LTBI) who were >18 years of age and without treatment for tuberculosis (TB), were enrolled in the study.

Results: Median cluster of differentiation (CD4) count was 364 cells/μ L and median HIV viral load was 50 copies/mL.

Anti-chlamydophila pneumoniae antibodies as associated factor for carotid atherosclerosis in patients with AIDS.

Atherosclerosis is a multifactor disease. Lately, infectious factors such as C. pneumoniae have been found to be involved.

Posaconazole therapy for chronic refractory coccidioidomycosis.

Background: Coccidioides infections often result in chronic relapsing disease that presents a challenge to the currently available therapy. Posaconazole, an oral extended-spectrum triazole agent, has been shown in vitro and in vivo to have potent activity against this fungus.

Methods: An open-label multinational study of posaconazole, 800 mg/d, administered in divided doses for the treatment of invasive fungal infection that has been refractory to previous therapy was conducted.

Safety of long-term oral posaconazole use in the treatment of refractory invasive fungal infections.

Background: Invasive fungal infections are found most frequently in immunosuppressed and critically ill hospitalized patients. Antifungal therapy is often required for long periods. Safety data from the clinical development program of the triazole antifungal agent, posaconazole, were analyzed.