We present the case of a 12-year-old boy admitted with a complaint of recurrent syncopal episodes. A careful history taking revealed the cause of the syncopal episodes to be a dangerous game played by adolescents called "suffocation roulette." We believe that recognition of this game as a possible cause of syncopal events, together with prompt educative intervention, might prevent adolescent mo...

This article is focused on a game-based educative experience, developed with students of the 1 year of the Medicine program of a federal public educational institution. The game was used as a privileged strategy to approach the students’ communication, spontaneity and sensitiveness in the health education process. Through this game, it was possible to approach the theme “the students’ mental he...

The new global communication systems and their integration in all media communication, together with their potential interactivity, are changing our culture and are introducing new questions and challenges in the educative system. The teaching practices are strongly impacted by the development of the new technologies, not only because they influence the professional skills of the teachers, but ...

Introduction: During pregnancy the body of women undergoes a transformation and develops complex physiological situations, especially in the first trimester. Pregnant women may be at greater risk of dehydration by not drinking water due to nausea and vomiting. Hydration plays a crucial role for the renewal of amniotic fluid, which is the living environment of the fetus. Having said that, educat...

The evaluation and reevaluation of the fundamental didactic principles suppose the acceptance at the level of an instructive-educative activity of a new educational paradigm. Thus, its understanding implies an assumption at a conceptual-theoretical level of some approaches where the didactic aspects find their usefulness by relating to value principles. This situation expresses in fact focus on...

There have been an increasing number of international collaboration agreements among universities, college, etc., to promote educative exchange programs, internationalization of teaching, research, and curricula, among other things. This paper has the aim to analyze and to reflect on the experiential exercise from the point of views of instructor and students attending University Center of Econ...

— This paper presents Sc@ut Generator as a powerful tool that allows the design of personalized communicators. It can be used by teachers or people responsible for a person with communication problem. Communicators run on PC or mobile devices like Pocket PC or the video-console intendo DS. Its use in education special schools helps the adaptation of the educative context to the user needs and c...

Athletes present risk of cutaneous mycosis. A study was carried out with 23 soccer players using clinical and mycological examination (direct microscopic examination and culture) and nail clipping. Eighteen (78.26%) did not present mycosis; two (8.70%) presented tinea pedis, and three (13.04%) presented onychomycosis associated to tinea pedis, mainly for Trichophyton mentagrophytes. Infected ti...