Introduction: The humanities are associated with the improvement of medical students’ personal qualities. To date, there are no research instruments that quantify the exposure of medical students have to the humanities. Hence, the availability of a questionnaire with such characteristics in Brazilian Portuguese sets a precedent for the planning and implementation of educational strategies and policies addressing this topic. Objective: to translate and transculturally adapt the “HUMANITIES SCORE (LIFE EXPERIENCES + ATTITUDES) questionnaire, determine its validity and reliability, as well as identify the type of exposure to the humanities of the assessed population. Method: The original version of the questionnaire, written in English, was translated according to what is recommended by the specialized literature, with the addition of some activities in the humanities field, as per the original authors’ suggestion. The translated instrument underwent a pre-test with 31 medical students for semantic validation, followed by the application of its final version to 258 students. The exploratory and the confirmatory factorial analyses were applied to assess the instrument with its internal consistency was checked with Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient. Result: The final questionnaire was administered to the students to verify their type of exposure to the humanities. After the statistical tests were carried out, the final version of the instrument, named “Escala de Exposição às Humanidades” (EEH), included 17 items with Likert-scale responses with five options each, and obtained a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.689. The mean score of the students’ exposure was 1.72 ± 0.37, being influenced by the period at medical school, the number of volunteer social activity experiences, the participation in religious groups, the practice of meditation, and the involvement in political activities. Variables such as female gender, engagement in previous actions related to the humanities before starting medical school and in religious ceremonies positively influenced the students’ opinion about the importance of the humanities for the medical curriculum. Conclusion: The EEH demonstrated reliability in its structure and content, allowing correlations between the students’ exposure to humanities and their opinion about the importance of human sciences in the medical curriculum. It constitutes the first instrument that aims at measuring the humanities exposure rate in Brazil; however, further studies must be carried out, to better validate the instrument.

A Síndrome de Burnout (SB) é caracterizada pela manifestação de três elementos: o estado de exaustão emocional, a despersonalização e a realização pessoal reduzida. O distúrbio está vinculado ao ambiente de trabalho que opera em ritmo acelerado devido às transformações globais impostas. No ano de 1978, a psicóloga social Christina Maslach, desenvolveu um método que permite avaliar o nível de Burnout em que o paciente se encontra, chamado de Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI). Essa ferramenta utiliza três parâmetros para avaliação, demora cerca de 10 minutos para ser aplicada e, com os resultados em mãos, classifica-se o paciente em uma frequência de 7 níveis. A World Health Organization considera que o estresse seja o principal fator desencadeante da SB e, diante disso, foi proposta a divisão dos fatores de risco em três tópicos, sendo eles: I)

Introduction: The humanities are associated with the improvement of medical students’ personal qualities. To date, there are no research instruments that quantify the exposure of medical students have to the humanities. Hence, the availability of a questionnaire with such characteristics in Brazilian Portuguese sets a precedent for the planning and implementation of educational strategies and policies addressing this topic. Objective: to translate and transculturally adapt the “HUMANITIES SCORE (LIFE EXPERIENCES + ATTITUDES) questionnaire, determine its validity and reliability, as well as identify the type of exposure to the humanities of the assessed population. Method: The original version of the questionnaire, written in English, was translated according to what is recommended by the specialized literature, with the addition of some activities in the humanities field, as per the original authors’ suggestion. The translated instrument underwent a pre-test with 31 medical students for semantic validation, followed by the application of its final version to 258 students. The exploratory and the confirmatory factorial analyses were applied to assess the instrument with its internal consistency was checked with Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient. Result: The final questionnaire was administered to the students to verify their type of exposure to the humanities. After the statistical tests were carried out, the final version of the instrument, named “Escala de Exposição às Humanidades” (EEH), included 17 items with Likert-scale responses with five options each, and obtained a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.689. The mean score of the students’ exposure was 1.72 ± 0.37, being influenced by the period at medical school, the number of volunteer social activity experiences, the participation in religious groups, the practice of meditation, and the involvement in political activities. Variables such as female gender, engagement in previous actions related to the humanities before starting medical school and in religious ceremonies positively influenced the students’ opinion about the importance of the humanities for the medical curriculum. Conclusion: The EEH demonstrated reliability in its structure and content, allowing correlations between the students’ exposure to humanities and their opinion about the importance of human sciences in the medical curriculum. It constitutes the first instrument that aims at measuring the humanities exposure rate in Brazil; however, further studies must be carried out, to better validate the instrument.

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Abstract. Urinary tract infections (UTI) constitute a major complaint in medical offices worldwide, especially concerning women. Although the efficacy of cranberry in UTI prevention is still controversial it has long been recommended for use in clinical practice. Based on the recommendation evaluation, the present study aimed to conduct a systematic review to assess the efficacy of cranberry prophylaxis in recurrent UTIs in women. Main changes among reviewed publications revolved around the mechanism by which cranberry produce the results observed and once it was established that it relates to bacterial fimbriae-mediated adhesion, most authors now struggle to establish accurate measures to come up with a protocol for its use. Many studies compared cranberry effects to placebo and traditional antibiotic treatment and showed promising results about effectiveness, as well as economic drawbacks. Altogether, cranberries could help to delay ecological resistance to antibiotics as well as protect patients from infections. Further investigation, mainly regarding dosage, is needed to formulate protocols and safely introduce cranberries to clinical practice