Ser mentor em medicina: uma visão arquetípica das motivações e transformações na jornada

A tutoria, na modalidade mentoring, tem sido adotada nas escolas médicas como estratégia para oferecer suporte pessoal e estimular o desenvolvimento profissional do futuro médico. O tutor, com papel de mentor, elemento crucial desta relação arquetípica, é pouco estudado em seu desenvolvimento pessoal. Este estudo buscou compreender as motivações de um grupo de tutores e identificar as possíveis transformações ocorridas ao longo do tempo. A investigação consistiu em um estudo qualitativo em que foram entrevistados 14 tutores de um Programa de Tutoria de uma Faculdade de Medicina. Há, entre os tutores, um desejo de restabelecer a antiga, significativa e próxima relação do mestre com o seu discípulo. Simbolicamente, buscam estar em contato com o seu "aluno interno ferido", e dele cuidar. Nessa jornada, podem - mas não necessariamente isso acontece a todos - transformar e ser transformados pelo outro.

El auto de los Reyes Magos en El Viso (Córdoba)

Vídeo grabado en El Viso, Córdoba

Dog bites man or man bites dog? The enigma of the amino acid conjugations

The proposition posed is that the value of amino acid conjugation to the organism is not, as in the traditional view, to use amino acids for the detoxication of aromatic acids. Rather, the converse is more likely, to use aromatic acids that originate from the diet and gut microbiota to assist in the regulation of body stores of amino acids, such as glycine, glutamate, and, in certain invertebrates, arginine, that are key neurotransmitters in the central nervous system (CNS). As such, the amino acid conjugations are not so much detoxication reactions, rather they are homeostatic and neuroregulatory processes. Experimental data have been culled in support of this hypothesis from a broad range of scientific and clinical literature. Such data include the low detoxication value of amino acid conjugations and the Janus nature of certain amino acids that are both neurotransmitters and apparent conjugating agents. Amino acid scavenging mechanisms in blood deplete brain amino acids. Amino acids glutamate and glycine when trafficked from brain are metabolized to conjugates of aromatic acids in hepatic mitochondria and then irreversibly excreted into urine. This process is used clinically to deplete excess nitrogen in cases of urea cycle enzymopathies through excretion of glycine or glutamine as their aromatic acid conjugates. Untoward effects of high-dose phenylacetic acid surround CNS toxicity. There appears to be a relationship between extent of glycine scavenging by benzoic acid and psychomotor function. Glycine and glutamine scavenging by conjugation with aromatic acids may have important psychosomatic consequences that link diet to health, wellbeing, and disease.

Re: "The enigma of lesion morphology in peripheral arterial occlusive disease".

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Dusty punch cards and an eternal enigma: high-density lipoproteins and atherosclerosis

Epidemiological, clinical, and experimental evidence has accumulated during the last decades suggesting that high-density lipoproteins (HDLs) may protect from atherosclerosis and its clinical consequences. However, more than 55 years after the first description of the link between HDL and heart attacks, many facets of the biochemistry, function, and clinical significance of HDL remain enigmatic. This applies particularly to the completely unexpected results that became available from some recent clinical trials of nicotinic acid and of inhibitors of cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP). The concept that raising HDL cholesterol by pharmacological means would decrease the risk of vascular disease has therefore been challenged.

A Importância do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA) nos territórios da cidadania dos Estados de Minas Gerais e da Bahia : Criação de novos mercados a partir da visão dos Agentes de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural (ATER)

This article aims to identify how the Foodstuff Acquisition Program has influenced market creation for family farmers in two Brazilian states - Minas Gerais e Bahia and also the limitations and benefits of the program from the point of view of the extension agents. A bibliographic research and a quantitative exploratory study were conducted, questionnaires were sent to extension agents who work for public rural extension agencies, municipalities, NGOs, cooperatives and producers' associations, during the year 2010-2011.

A Importância do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA) nos territórios da cidadania dos Estados de Minas Gerais e da Bahia : Criação de novos mercados a partir da visão dos Agentes de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural (ATER)

This article aims to identify how the Foodstuff Acquisition Program has influenced market creation for family farmers in two Brazilian states - Minas Gerais e Bahia and also the limitations and benefits of the program from the point of view of the extension agents. A bibliographic research and a quantitative exploratory study were conducted, questionnaires were sent to extension agents who work for public rural extension agencies, municipalities, NGOs, cooperatives and producers' associations, during the year 2010-2011.

Constelación, enigma y transitoriedad : A propósito de las primeras aproximaciones a la dialéctica en Adorno

Nos proponemos en estas líneas rastrear algunas de las formas en las que se presenta el problema del conocimiento en T. W. Adorno. Más específicamente nos preguntamos si en los escritos juveniles puede encontrarse una idea de dialéctica. Esta pregunta se aborda siendo concientes de la violencia que este pensador reconoce en la consideración de un método para el conocimiento. En vistas a nuestro objetivo nos remitiremos a ciertas reflexiones de su juventud que aparecen expresadas en ?La actualidad de la filosofía? (1931) y ?La idea de historia natural? (1932). Esbozaremos, de este modo, las especificidades de esta primera aproximación a la dialéctica en las conferencias en cuestión. Para recorrer estos textos sugerimos una lectura que se apoya en la proximidad con algunas reflexiones que Benjamin realiza en El origen del drama barroco alemán

A Importância do Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos (PAA) nos territórios da cidadania dos Estados de Minas Gerais e da Bahia : Criação de novos mercados a partir da visão dos Agentes de Assistência Técnica e Extensão Rural (ATER)

This article aims to identify how the Foodstuff Acquisition Program has influenced market creation for family farmers in two Brazilian states - Minas Gerais e Bahia and also the limitations and benefits of the program from the point of view of the extension agents. A bibliographic research and a quantitative exploratory study were conducted, questionnaires were sent to extension agents who work for public rural extension agencies, municipalities, NGOs, cooperatives and producers' associations, during the year 2010-2011.