INTRODUÇÃO: Há pouca discussão na literatura sobre quais procedimentos médicos o estudante de Medicina deve ser capaz de realizar no final do curso de graduação e em qual momento do currículo escolar eles devem ser inseridos. METODOLOGIA: Uma comissão formada por especialistas de diversas áreas organizou uma lista de possíveis procedimentos médicos diagnósticos e terapêuticos, sugerida por estudos e debates do grupo e que estivessem de acordo com as Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais de 2001. Após consenso do grupo, mediante aprovação de mais de 75% dos integrantes da comissão, os procedimentos que de fato deveriam integrar o currículo foram definidos. RESULTADOS: Mais de 50 procedimentos médicos foram definidos, de acordo com o nível de complexidade esperada para o aluno de graduação. Após esta definição, tais procedimentos foram distribuídos na matriz curricular e divididos didaticamente em momentos de aprendizagem de domínio cognitivo e domínio motor. CONCLUSÃO: O presente estudo apresentou uma proposta de definição das competências e habilidades relativas aos procedimentos médicos a serem alcançadas pelos estudantes de Medicina de graduação em nossa instituição e teve como objetivo sistematizar a sua distribuição na matriz curricular.

BACKGROUND: There is little discussion in the literature about which medical procedures students must be able to perform at the end of a medical course and at which point of the school curriculum they must be inserted. METHODOLOGY: A commission of specialists from different medical areas organized a list of possible diagnostic and therapeutic medical procedures, suggested by studies and group debates and followed the Brazilian curricular guidelines of 2001. Following group consensus with approval by over 75% of the commission members, the procedures that should actually be part of the school curriculum were defined. RESULTS: Over 50 medical procedures were grouped according to the level of complexity expected of the undergraduate student at the end of medical course. Once these were defined, they were distributed in the curricular grid and split into distinct learning times of the cognitive and motor domains. CONCLUSION: This study presented a proposal to define the competencies and skills relative to medical procedures to be attained by the undergraduate medicine students at our institution, with the objective of systematizing their distribution in the curricular matrix.

Introduction In this study, we investigated radiological changes in the sigmoid colon in chagasic patients by comparing their colon lengths and caliber with those of non-chagasic living in the same region and non-chagasic living at high altitudes. Methods A total of 317 individuals were evaluated using clinical, serological and radiological methods and divided into three groups: 1) one hundred and nine non-chagasic individuals from Uberaba, Brazil; 2) sixty-one non-chagasic from Puno, Peru; 3) one hundred forty-seven chagasics examined in Uberaba, being 62 without megacolon (3A), 72 with megacolon (3B) and 13 with doubtful diagnosis of megacolon (3C). Results In group 2, the sigmoid colon had a significantly larger caliber (p=0.001) and the rectosigmoid colon was longer (p<0.001) than group 1. In subgroup 3A, the sigmoid colon (p<0.001) and rectum (p<0.001) had a significantly larger caliber and the rectosigmoid was longer (p<0.001) than that of the non-chagasic individuals. In subgroup 3B, the rectosigmoid was longer in all patients, and the caliber of the sigmoid was significantly larger than that of subjects in subgroups 3A and 3C (p<0.001). Conclusions Morphometric analysis confirms that Chagas disease may increase the caliber and length of the rectosigmoid. Our results suggest that altitude, ethnicity and diet may have influenced the size and length of the rectosigmoid of andean patients.

Cellulose was first modified with thionyl chloride, followed by reaction with 2-aminomethylpyridine to yield 6-(2'-aminomethylpyridine)-6-deoxycellulose. The resulting chemically-immobilized surface was characterized by elemental analysis, FTIR, 13C NMR and thermogravimetry. From 0.28% of nitrogen incorporated in the polysaccharide backbone, the amount of 0.10 ± 0.01 mmol of the proposed molecule was anchored per gram of the chemically modified cellulose. The available basic nitrogen centers attached to the covalent pendant chain bonded to the biopolymer skeleton were investigated for copper, cobalt, nickel and zinc adsorption from aqueous solution at room temperature. The newly synthesized biopolymer gave maximum sorption capacities of 0.100 ± 0.012, 0.093 ± 0.021, 0.074 ± 0.011 and 0.071 ± 0.019 mmol.g-1 for copper, cobalt, nickel and zinc cations, respectively, using the batchwise method, whose data was fitted to different sorption models, the best fit being obtained with the Langmuir model. The results suggested the use of this anchored biopolymer for cation removal from the environment.