Se presentan las cifras relativas a pacientes internados en el hospital Hermilio Valdizán de 1972 a 1977 por dependencia a drogas en general y a pasta básica de cocaína en particular. Sobre un total de 5 254 pacientes ingresados en ese lapso, 122 eran farmacodependientes, y de éstos 70 casos (57 por ciento) correspondían a pasta básica de cocaína.

Objective: To describe and delimit the psychiatric vocation process and its associated factors. Design: Transversal, qualitative, descriptive and comparative study of cases. Methodology: Previous informed consent in depth audio-recorded interviews were carried out in two groups selected by criteria of heterogeneity, 45 psychiatrists currently in practice and 61 residents in psychiatry. Results and conclusions: Psychiatric vocation includes several dimensions. It considers the person as an integral being, showing strong interest on the psychological part of the patient and a need to reduce the suffering caused by mental illness. In the group of psychiatrists, the psychiatric vocation showed itself as more consolidated and genuine. In the group of residents, psychiatric vocation appeared as a weak and in some cases inexistent process. Several residents chose psychiatry as a career on accou...

Introduction. There are national and international reports of the presence of stress in medical students, higher than in other professional careers; likewise, the presence of stress is related to low academic performance. Objective. To determine if there is an association between violence, stress and the academic performance of the first and sixth year medical students of the National University of San Marcos. Methods. It was surveyed 109 (47%) students of the 6th year, and 122 (53%) students of the 1st year. The perception of violence and stress were determined with validated instruments; academic performance was determined by the annual weighted average. The Mann Whitney U test was used to establish differences between the means of the quantitative variables. To establish the correlation between the study variables, the Spearman correlation coefficient was used. Values p <0,05 were ...

Objective. To describe and delimit the surgical vocation process and associated factors. Design. Selected cases cross-sectional study qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed with descriptive purpose. Methods. Previous informed consent in depth audio-recorded interviews was carried out in 40 surgeons in current professional practice. Main outcome measures. Surgical vocation. Results. Males represented 95%; mean age was 65 years (41-86), mean medical experience 35.4 years (10-68), surgical experience 30.2 years (03-59). Training centers: 85% had university surgical training and 15% non-university training. Surgical vocation is a process that can begin in different periods of the life`s cycle. When it does before university studies (17.5% of the studied sample) it is mainly associated to strong family influence (parents or uncles surgeons). More frequently (80%) it emerges during medical ...