[Regulations governing the training of diagnostic imaging residents: the residents' statute and the medical specialties law]. / Normativa de la formación del residente de Radiodiagnóstico: estatuto del residente y ley de especialidades.

The current system for training medical specialists in Spain originated in 1963, and diagnostic radiology was one of the first specialties recognized. There are currently three types of regulations that govern the training of specialists: a) professional, The Health Professions Law; b) labor: The Residents' Statute; and c) educational, The New Medical Specialties Law and the Diagnostic Imaging Program This system consists of an exclusive contract with the training organization, a unified system of access, and a training program in accredited units that includes tutoring, evaluation, and progressive assignment of responsibilities. Residents have a right to be trained and evaluated, to participate in the teaching unit, and to their labor rights. In exchange, they must complete the tasks assigned in the program and abide by the institution's rules. Residents must be supervised directly in the first year and thereafter they should be given progressively more responsibility.

[The diagnosis and treatment of epileptic pseudocrises]. / Diagnóstico y tratamiento de pseudocrisis epilépticas.

We evaluated 30 patients with a tentative diagnosis of epilepsy who did not respond to anticonvulsant therapy. Crisis were induced through suggestion with simultaneous EEG recording. Pseudoseizures were revealed in 10 patients. A depressive syndrome was present in 5 and other psychiatric disorders in the rest. Psychiatric therapy was effective in suppressing seizures in 7 compliant patients. We feel that suggestive induction of crisis is an effective diagnostic tool for identification of pseudoseizures.