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UPF Barcelona will have its own degree in Medicine

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The Ministry of Health of the Generalitat, Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and the Mar Parc de Salut Consortium (PSMAR) Barcelona have signed a teaching and research collaboration agreement with the aim of creating a new degree in Medicine at UPF.

The signing of the agreement took place this Wednesday at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health and has had the participation of the councilor Alba Vergés, the rector of UPF, Jaume Casals, and the president of the PSMAR, Joan Puigdollers, the Generalitat has informed in a statement.

The degree is born in a context of lack of personnel in hospitals. Recently, the Metges de Catalunya (MC) union threatened again with a strike in primary care if for the Government and the Ministry of Health primary care “was still not a priority.” In November 2018, GPs went on strike for four days.

The new degree will progressively extinguish the joint degree existing until now between UPF and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and which has been offered since the 2008-2009 academic year at the Hospital del Mar from the Catalan capital.

It is planned that the 2021-2022 academic year will begin to be taught and it will have its own study plan that will be developed jointly by UPF and PSMAR and that will be “fully adapted to the needs of today’s medicine” and oriented to medicine based on biomedical research.

Biomedical approach

It will have a clear integration with the biomedical surroundings, with the transfer, with the clinician and with the public health, with integrated work with research groups; and will introduce studies on cancer, infectious diseases, personalized medicine, systems medicine or telemedicine.

It also wants to promote the learning of non-cognitive skills such as teamwork, critical thinking, expression and analysis skills, conflict resolution, cooperative work, autonomy or empathy.

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Alleged intensivist doctor would be scamming patients in Córdoba | THE UNIVERSAL

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An alleged intensivist doctor, who identifies himself as Jefferson McCabe Jáller, is visiting and treating patients in different parts of Córdoba, especially in the municipality of Cereté, and posing as a specialist at the Imat Clinic in the capital.

The directors of the clinic found out about the situation because relatives of a patient arrived at the healthcare center, asking for the doctor. They carried in their hands the formula I had ordered, but strangely it did not have the medical record, nor the professional’s identity document.

They made the corresponding consultations with the staff of the Intensive Care Unit and it was possible to explain to the relatives that there was no one with that name working in that place. They also filed a complaint with the competent authorities.

As a result of the continuous consultations by Mr. Jefferosn McCabe, who presents himself as an intensivist physician at our institution, we made it clear that he is not part of our medical team and has never been part of it, ”the clinic said in a statement.

They also alert the community not to receive medical attention through these credentials, as they are not responsible for the care of the supposed intensive care physician.

The universal He consulted the page of the Special Registry of Health Services, REPS, in which the Ministry of Health reports the name of the professionals who have authorization to work in the different branches of medicine, but that name did not yield any results.

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Medical graduates and students add to the health system

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The governor of Neuquén Omar Gutiérrez announced the call to incorporate the system of Health from the province to 25 doctors who will receive their degrees next month and 55 students who are studying their last year at the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Comahue (UNCo), in order to add more human resources to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

“We are also negotiating with the national authorities to speed up the procedures that allow us to make a similar call to add 40 students from the Nursing career who are studying in the same faculty,” said the provincial president.

“There are 80 doctors that we are summoning and we are going to see how many accept to strengthen the Health system,” he indicated and specified that in the afternoon a meeting will be held by videoconference in which national authorities will participate, the rector of the UNCo, Gustavo Crisafulli , and the provincial Minister of Health, Andrea Peve, to finalize the details.

Gutiérrez stressed that “it is a device that is established for the first time and has the endorsement of all authorities” and explained that the health system will have the way in which the newly received will be incorporated to help “staff who are saturated after six months of emergency ”.

In addition, in radio statements, he recalled that in the province there are 170 respirators in operation with an occupancy level of 96 percent. “We have another 60 respirators that we have been acquiring, the health authorities will reorganize the personnel to put them into operation if necessary,” he said.

The governor indicated in this regard that “unfortunately in the world between 60 and 70 percent of the people who come to a respirator, die” and that “in our province the same thing happens with almost two out of three people who come to that instance . What you have to avoid is reaching the respirator ”.

He pointed out that “we must continue to insist that individual precautionary measures must be taken, that is, maintain a distance of two meters, use tobacco and frequent hand washing.”

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Medicine intern commits suicide in a Yucatan clinic

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TAHDZIÚ, Yuc. (apro) .- The State Secretary of Health (SSY) confirmed the suicide of a young medical intern at the Medical Unit of this town.

The victim, identified with the initials KJGK, 25 years old, was originally from Mérida, and for about a month she was assigned by the Institute of Health and Wellbeing (Insabi) to the clinic in this municipality, one of the poorest from the continent, where until yesterday he was seen working.

This morning, employees of the health center found the young woman dead, suspended from the ventilator in her office, for which they gave notice to the authorities of the Ministry of Health and the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE).

In a bulletin, the SSY regretted the fact and pointed out that, with the support of Mental Health professionals from the dependency, they carry out comprehensive actions to support family members, “who will be given the necessary help to carry out the procedures corresponding to the State Attorney General’s Office, where the rigorous legal procedure will be given.

So far the reasons for the suicide are unknown.

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students launch against UADY after suicide of medical intern

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MÉRIDA, Yuc. (appro). – Students from the Faculty of Medicine once again attacked the authorities of the Autonomous University of Yucatán (UADY), this time due to the recent suicide of one of their colleagues at the Tahdziú clinic, where she was doing her residency.

For reasons presumably related to her career, the young intern, KJGK, 25 years old and originally from Mérida, took her own life on September 15 in her office at the Tahdziú medical center, a municipality that by the way is among the most impoverished of the continent.

The case unleashed the anger and indignation of the students who once again filled social networks with accusations and reproaches against the authorities of the UADY and its Faculty of Medicine for the lack of interest and lack of support towards their students.

Although the girl’s death was made public on September 15, it was until the next day that the Faculty of Medicine issued a statement on the matter.

In a statement, the Faculty of Medicine expressed that it was “deeply moved by the death of the intern, KJGK, who was rendering her social service at the Tahdziú Medical Unit.”

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He assured that university authorities in coordination with personnel from the Subdirectorate of Mental Health and Education of the Ministry of Health “are already taking the pertinent actions.”

“The irreparable loss of a young doctor fills us with consternation and mourns the entire community of the Faculty,” he reiterated.

He argued that “Medicine is an arduous, hard and demanding career that demands the maximum of our abilities”, and stated: “At the Faculty we understand it that way and that is why our psychopedagogical department provides support to our students every day to prevent moments crisis ”.

Finally, he endorsed his commitment “to the comprehensive, humanistic and responsible training of students”, for which he asked heads of teaching and teachers “to maintain close communication with students and make available to those who require it, the services of the professionals who work in the psycho-pedagogical department of our dependency ”.

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However, such a statement stirred the anger of the students, who questioned the sayings of their authorities who, with the campaign “UADY, I do not believe you anything”, reproached a string of situations suffered by students of that maximum house of studies.

The flow of complaints from medical students includes various types of human rights violations, exploitation, excessive pressure, mistreatment, harassment.

“The department of psychopedagogy is a joke, I say it from my own skin and I know it from that of many colleagues. ‘If you can’t unsubscribe’, this has been said over and over again to students, to all those who at some point have a crisis.

Where is the humanist side? Where was the empathy? Are you moved? What if they do something about it with those doctors who only humiliate their interns? Or how about those teachers who have different colored hair or tattoos that won’t turn you down? Why don’t they do something with all the staff who are sexist and misogynistic? ”, Refuted a student.

“Don’t become a School of Medicine. Nobody puts a Civil Engineer intern to supervise ONLY the construction of a bridge. No career puts an intern to be 24 HOURS X 6 DAYS A WEEK AWAY FROM ALL SOCIAL CONTACT OTHER THAN HIS JOB “, reproached another of the nonconformists.

And he assured that the deceased doctor asked for help and “they told him to stay.”

Last April, the Faculty of Medicine came into conflict with its interns after seven of them filed a claim for protection for having been dropped from the school for refusing to return to the institutions to which they had been assigned due to the lack of security guarantees to reduce the risk of contracting covid-19.

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They evict a party in a flat with 26 medical students

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Saturday was a busy night for the agents of the Oviedo Local Police. One of the main problems they faced was the parties organized in homes. The police had to appear in up to 14 houses, who only had problems in one located on Víctor Sáez street. There they were counted until 26 persons -the majority students of the Internal Resident Physician (MIR) tests– who at first refused to turn off the music and break up the party, reports La Nueva España, newspaper of the Prensa Ibérica group.

The agents had to return a second time and the event resulted in a series of consequences: they were punished for excess capacity (only 10 people can be together), five of them fined for keep drinking in the street and one more for refusing to identify himself. There were also five of the party participants who received a penalty for not wearing a mask.

Throughout the night, a local was also punished for not respecting the closing hours on Aurelio de Llano Street and eight people inside for not wearing a mask or not respecting the safety distance. The owners of a store near the Plaza de Porlier were also proposed for sanction due to schedule issues.

On the other hand, several bottles were dissolved. One of them in Lepanto street, another in Francisco Pintado de Fe, one in the Winter Park and a fourth in the Santullano park. Throughout all these interventions, some people were also fined for not wearing a mask. On the street, throughout Oviedo, eight other people were punished for not wearing protection.

In addition, two breathalyzer tests were carried out resulting in a criminal offense and an administrative sanction was imposed. Local Police agents also collaborated with the Civil Guard to arrest a driver who had fled and whom they had been pursuing for some time. The arrest took place in La Argañosa and the man tested positive for alcohol during the controls.

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Rheumatoid arthritis drug could help treat covid-19

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MEXICO CITY (apro) .- The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly announced that the combination of its rheumatoid arthritis treatment baricitinib with remdesivir reduced the recovery time in hospitalized patients with covid-19.

Eli Lilly explained that during the Covid-19 Adaptive Treatment Trial (ACTT-2), researchers observed a reduction of approximately one day in the mean recovery time of patients treated with baricitinib combined with the substance remdesivir, compared to those who were only treated with remdesivir, therefore they rated the finding as statistically significant.

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The study, sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the US National Institute of Health (NIH), included more than 1,000 patients and began on May 8 to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a dose. of 4 mg baricitinib plus remdesivir versus remdesivir in hospitalized patients with COVID-19.

According to Eli Lilly, the combination met the primary endpoint of reduced recovery time, which was defined as that the participant was well enough for hospital discharge, meaning that they no longer needed supplemental oxygen or care continued in the hospital, or was no longer hospitalized on the 29th.

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Eli Lilly reported that additional analysis is underway to understand other clinical outcome data, including mortality and safety data, and that NIAID is expected to publish full study details in a peer-reviewed journal.

Eli Lilly also indicated that he plans to discuss the emergency use authorization of the combination with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and explore similar measures with other regulatory agencies for baricitinib as a treatment. of hospitalized patients with covid-19. If authorized, the company will propose make baricitinib available through commercial channels and will work with hospitals and governments to ensure patient access.

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20% of the affected population, a “disabling” disorder, says neurologist

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Doctor Michel Dib, neurologist at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, speaks at RTL’s microphone on the occasion of the European day of action against migraine, this Saturday, September 12. Migraine is a disorder that involves 20% of the adult population in France.

According to the survey carried out for the patient association La Voix des Migraineurs, nearly one in two patients believes that migraine wastes his life every day. An ordeal responsible for depressive states and which can result, in 15% of cases, by suicidal thoughts.

Migraine goes far beyond a simple headache, recalls Michel Dip. The doctor points out that this disorder is “an organic and severe disease”. “These are pulsating and disabling headaches that increase with physical activity” and which prevent the patient “from having a normal activity”. In detail, “migraine is characterized by ‘tapping’ headaches, half of the head taken, aggravation when physical activity increases, discomfort in light and noise”.

An ‘invisible’ handicap

A trouble invisible “frowned upon and misunderstood” by those around them, laments the specialist who regrets that one in two migraine sufferers “do not consult”. Doctor Dib explains that migraines are accompanied by an inability to work and that recognize this evil as a handicap would be “conceivable”.

The neurologist also conceded that protective masks, widely used against the coronavirus epidemic, can trigger migraine attacks.

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Covid-19. ICU physicians less infected than other colleagues

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Intensive care physicians, who treat the most seriously ill, are less likely to have been infected with the coronavirus than their colleagues from other departments, or even hospital cleaners, according to a British study published on Friday.

This could be explained in particular by the fact that they received priority equipment with a high level of protection, such as masks, argue the authors of this work, published in the medical journal Thorax.

“We assumed that intensive care professionals were at a higher risk (…) but they are relatively well protected compared to others”commented the lead author of the study, Alex Richter, professor of immunology at the University of Birmingham.

Low level of antibodies

The study involves more than 500 staff at Birmingham hospitals, all of whom were on post at the end of April, as the epidemic raged and lockdown was in place in the UK. At that time, these hospitals were receiving an average of five Covid-19 patients per hour.

The researchers subjected the study participants to a serological test, to see if they had previously been infected.

In total, 24% of the participants had developed antibodies proving a past infection with the coronavirus, compared to 6% in the general population of this part of England.

But this rate varied according to the category of personnel. It was lowest among intensive care professionals (15%), compared with around 30% in general internal medicine departments and 34.5% among maintenance workers.

Prevention measures and level of contagion

In addition to the issue of equipment, this could be explained by the fact that intensive care professionals are more experienced in rigorously applying infection prevention measures, commented a professor of anesthesia at the University of Bristol, Tim Cook.

In addition, he said, it could also be because the most severely affected and therefore advanced patients are less contagious than those for whom the infection is more recent.

In addition, as many other studies have already done, this study shows that the risk was greater among black people, Asians or belonging to other ethnic minorities.

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Covid-19. ICU physicians less infected than other colleagues

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Critical care physicians, who treat the most seriously ill, are less likely to have been infected with the coronavirus than their colleagues from other departments, or even hospital cleaners, according to a British study published on Friday.

This could be explained in particular by the fact that they received priority equipment with a high level of protection, such as masks, argue the authors of this work, published in the medical journal Thorax.

“We assumed that intensive care professionals were at higher risk (…) but they are relatively well protected compared to others”, commented the study’s lead author Alex Richter, professor of immunology at the University of Birmingham.

Low level of antibodies

The study involves more than 500 staff at Birmingham hospitals, all of whom were on post at the end of April, as the epidemic raged and lockdown was in place in the UK. At that time, these hospitals were receiving an average of five Covid-19 patients per hour.

The researchers subjected the study participants to a serological test, to see if they had previously been infected.

In total, 24% of the participants had developed antibodies proving a past infection with the coronavirus, compared to 6% in the general population of this part of England.

But this rate varied according to the category of personnel. It was lowest among intensive care professionals (15%), compared with around 30% in general internal medicine departments and 34.5% among maintenance workers.

Prevention measures and level of contagion

In addition to the issue of equipment, this could be explained by the fact that intensive care professionals are more experienced in rigorously applying infection prevention measures, commented a professor of anesthesia at the University of Bristol, Tim Cook.

In addition, he said, it could also be because the most severely affected and therefore advanced patients are less contagious than those for whom the infection is more recent.

In addition, as many other studies have already done, this study shows that the risk was greater among black people, Asians or belonging to other ethnic minorities.

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