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The Mexican Infectology Association is fully aware of its being
the main provider of continuous medical education for Mexican
infectologists; this is also its goal, which is achieved through
a variety of different activities: courses, congresses and symposiums,
along with other events. |
The
work of practising infectologists, as well as most specialists in
other areas of medicine, is usually finding the solution to established
clinical problems, emphasizing the illness, without necessarily preventing
it in an integral way.
In
October 16, 1999, the symposium "Clinical nutriology in infectious
disease" took place at the Centro Médico Nacional Siglo
XXI (Siglo XXI Medical Center) in Mexico City. This was a joint effort
of our Association and the Mexican Health Foundation (FUNSALUD) and
the Asociación Mexicana de Facultades y Escuelas de Medicina
(Mexican Association of Medical Schools and Faculties) (AMFEM) whose
purpose was to wake infectologysts, nutriologysts, nurses, residents,
and health science students, to the importance of providing global
attention for our patients.
Doctors should devote a lot of time to teaching and studying timely
detection, so we can reduce the important costs in terms of economic
resources.
The
topics dealt with in this seminar are now being published in the current
number of the magazine Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología
(Microbiology and Infectious Disease), which focuses on pathologies,
and delimits an area of great interest and strong interdependence
between nutriology and infectology, allowing an exemplary improvement
of the sick patient's attention model.
Without
doubt, within this rich arsenal of non-pharmacological measures nutrition
is of great importance; that is the reason why our association has
eagerly attended the call of FUNSALUD and ANFEM, and it will certainly
continue supporting this kind of forums.
Onofre
Muñoz. President.
Mexican Infectology Association |
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