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In this academic work, the authors look into the foundations and limitations of the iura novit curia principle in the Peruvian civil procedure, in order to give practical responses to the main challenges faced by judges in its application. Moreover, they explain that a good understanding of such principle should not permit a judge to submit a judgment based on legal causes that were not duly invoked and defined by the claimant, or that have not been discussed by the parties during the procedure. Finally, they propose that the application of the iura novit curia principle does not allow judges to render a “surprise decision” based on a legal argument that was not part of the controversy in the procedure.

This article discusses whether the collection and non-return of “representation expenses” by Congressmen of the Republic of Peru may result in criminal liability for the crime of embezzlement of public funds when they do not do correctly the representation activity, since it would be a monetary amount that constitutes a public funds that has been entrusted to the public official for his administration by reason of his office. In this regard, the legal nature of “representation expenses” will also be analyzed in order to argue that they are in fact “travel expenses” who must be duly regularized.

The article develops a descriptive research approach on a 2015 particular case reported to INDECOPI because a clinic did not evaluate the mental health of a pregnant woman and correctly processed her request for therapeutic abortion, as well as that she would have suffered gender discrimination. Therefore, it is analyzed whether legally, in our country, there is an obligation to evaluate the mental health of the pregnant woman and what should be understood as “serious and permanent health damage”, as it is contemplated in the legal devices. This document also develops gender discrimination in the commercial sphere and how gender stereotypes of the medical personnel led to denying the requested service that merited the medical stage of the pregnant woman.

The visit pass is an activity that combines teaching and care processes around the care of hospitalized patients. It represents the ideal time for the learning of the clinical method, since there is an interaction between expert doctors and novices in medicine. However, despite being an everyday act, it does not usually have a homogeneous dynamic, since each doctor develops to its free choise. Neither the processes that are developed there are usually carried out in the best way. A look from the perspective of the Activity Theory can help to understand what is generated there, in order to perpetuate and improve one of the moments of greatest learning for the doctor in training

Introduction: The training of professionals in the field of  medicine is immersed in teaching-learning-assessment processes that depend on the curricular pedagogical model adopted and the epistemological approach of the teacher. Objective: Present the current status of the programs of the Postgraduate Courses of High Specialty in Medicine, UNAM, with respect to the international context, and make a comparative analysis. Method: Narrative review (Search of scientific literature published in Spanish and English, in databases Medline, Embase and Eric, using the keywords higher medical education, professional competences, learning in medicine and performance evaluation) of curriculum design by competencies. The search strategies were carried out in MEDLINE, EMBASE, and compared with what was developed in the Graduate Courses of High Specialty in Medicine, Resuls: The competency models endorsed by the American Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, The Australian Medical Council, the Ministry of Health of China and all the regulatory bodies in the world, report a direct association in the improvement, general performance, patient safety area and improvement in the number of reports of patient safety events, by improving the skills of physicians. Discussion: At the international level, an integrating vision has been developed for the development of effective competences; however, there are still challenges to be solved. It is necessary to develop a consensus on generic and specific competences for health systems, which contributes to improving the quality of medical training worldwide Conclusion: It is necessary to rethink the programs of the Postgraduate Courses of High Specialty in Medicine according to our needs for health care and the international context.