Dear colleagues and participants of the
Virtual Symposium about the Brugada Syndrome, whatever
your category: moderator, lecturer, and so on: we have
prepared a questionnaire with a multiple-choice format,
to assess our knowledge about the syndrome, and so that
all the questions about the entity and related facts could
be answered in this event. You can send the replies to
us starting the day you receive the questionnaire until
the last day of the Symposium, 11/30/2002, pointing out
the correct alternative for the area: "Brugada
Syndrome Multiple-Choice Questions."
If your answers are correct in a 90% or more, you have
to be considered an "expert" in Brugada Syndrome,
and probably you will find yourself in the stage number
6 of the Table 1 below: "The six degrees of improvement
of doctors devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac
arrhythmias."
If you reply between 80% and 90%, you are in stage 5;
between 70% and 80%, in stage 4; between 60% and 70% in
stage 3; between 50 and 60% in stage 2, and less than
50% in stage 1.
Table 1
The six degrees of improvement of doctors devoted
to diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias (Slama,
I. et. al. Arch. Maladie do Coeur, 66:1401, 1973).
1) The happy stage: he/she still doesn't know about
the problems.
2) The normal stage: he/she sees there are problems
but doesn't understand.
3) The excellent stage: now he/she thinks he/she understands
everything.
4) The depressive stage: he/she has the impression of
not understanding anything
5) The self-satisfaction stage: he/she does not understand
anything, but has an explanation for everything.
6) The ideal stage for which until now no candidate
was found: he/she understands everything and can explain
everything.
Andrés Ricardo Pérez Riera
President of the Scientific Committee
riera@uol.com.br
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