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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Manoj K Saurabh, Amit Ranjan, Tejas K Patel
Background and objective The Medical Council of India [now replaced by the National Medical Commission (NMC)] has implemented a new competency-based curriculum for medical education. Eight competencies in the curriculum are related to the principles of disability-inclusive compassionate care. This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes among undergraduate medical students about people with disability after attending learning sessions on disability competency. Materials and methods After they attended the learning session during the foundation course, participants were evaluated by using a questionnaire involving 26 questions, of which 17 were based on the Likert scale to assess general perceptions towards the person with a disability, while three questions aimed to assess attitudes, and six closed-ended questions tried to assess knowledge about disability...
February 2024: Curēus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hope King, Nicole Thornton, Kimberly N Evans, Yomi Tadfor, Danielle German, Colin Flynn, Jacky Jennings, Errol L Fields
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an effective tool in protecting persons from acquiring HIV infection through sex or injection drug use. However, awareness and willingness to use PrEP among Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (BMSM) remain suboptimal compared to White MSM (WMSM) in the United States. Our aims were to (1) assess the factors associated with PrEP awareness and willingness to use PrEP among MSM and (2) compare the PrEP perceptions among BMSM versus non-Black MSM. Data were drawn from two cross-sectional behavioral surveys in Baltimore, MD: Behavioral Surveillance Research (BESURE) conducted in 2017, and Safe Spaces 4 Sexual Health (SS4SH), conducted in 2018 and 2019...
March 4, 2024: Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Arielle Isaacson, Julianna Coleman, King Fok, Dorothy W Tolchin
BACKGROUND: Disability-related microaggressions are unique among microaggressions in the assumptions they reflect and the verbal and non-verbal forms they take. They impact patients and providers alike. Yet, medical and dental students are not routinely educated about disability-related microaggressions. A medical school student-faculty team harnessed Kern's six-step curriculum design process to co-produce a novel 90-min educational intervention centered on recognizing and responding to disability-related microaggressions...
January 19, 2024: Disability and Health Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kristina Kaljo, Michael T Braun, Ragasnehith Maddula, Catherine C Ferguson, Eliana Bonifacino, Amy Farkas
OBJECTIVES: Undergraduate college pathway (or pipeline) programs support students' interests as they explore advanced degree and career pathways. Many programs aim to diversify the medical workforce by reducing barriers that may have otherwise prevented desired academic and career goals; however, variability in structure, expectations, benefits, and outcome data exist. This systematic review was conducted to identify and evaluate undergraduate college pathway programs designed to increase the diversity of medical school matriculants...
December 2023: Southern Medical Journal
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REVIEW
Jeremy M Lipman, Colleen Y Colbert, Rendell Ashton, Judith French, Christine Warren, Monica Yepes-Rios, Rachel S King, S Beth Bierer, Theresa Kline, James K Stoller
Background Aligning resident and training program attributes is critical. Many programs screen and select residents using assessment tools not grounded in available evidence. This can introduce bias and inappropriate trainee recruitment. Prior reviews of this literature did not include the important lens of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Objective This study's objective is to summarize the evidence linking elements in the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) application with selection and training outcomes, including DEI factors...
December 2023: Journal of Graduate Medical Education
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ayaka Fujihashi, Om U Patel, Ishant Yadav, Kaitlin Burge, William Haynes, Ryan Zaniewski, Nicholas Van Wagoner, Maria B Grant
Background Beginning January 26, 2022, the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 1 changed from a numerical score to pass/fail (P/F). The purpose of this study was to determine the perspective of ophthalmology program directors regarding this change in evaluating applicants. Methods After institutional review board approval, a survey was sent out to program directors of all 125 ophthalmology programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Survey questions asked for program demographics, the utility of USMLE Step 1 and 2 Clinical Knowledge scores in assessing applicants, and the importance of 16 different applicant metrics before and after Step 1 becomes P/F...
July 2023: Journal of Academic Ophthalmology: Official Journal of the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cameron Nosrat, Patrick Martin-Tuite, Fei Jiang, Jenny Broering, Alan W Shindel
OBJECTIVE: To review applications to a single urology residency program to determine application characteristics predictive of 1) successful match into urology residency and 2) pursuit of fellowship training and/or academic practice after completion of residency. Our principal variables of interest were gender bias as assessed in letters of recommendation (LOR), personal statements (PS), Medical Student Performance Evaluation (MSPE), race, and gender. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Applications submitted to our urology residency program in the 2014 cycle were reviewed...
November 6, 2023: Urology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jared Moon, Saima Khan, Sara Tao, Gene Kim
BACKGROUND: Ophthalmology residency programs are highly competitive and each year there are many unmatched reapplicants who must make time-sensitive decisions on how to prepare for their reapplication. Our analysis of reapplication factors will be the first evidence-based guide to reapplying ophthalmology. OBJECTIVE: To determine the components of a reapplicants application that contribute and that do not contribute to ophthalmology residency match success. METHODS: Eighty-eight total reapplicants to Dell Medical School's Department of Ophthalmology residency program for the year of 2022 and 2023 were analyzed in a retrospective review in 2023 based on their San Francisco match applications...
November 8, 2023: Seminars in Ophthalmology
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REVIEW
Emma C Bethel, Asia N Matthew-Onabanjo, Hannah E Kay, Ram Basak, Alysen Demzik, Pauline Filippou, Davis Viprakasit, Kristy M Borawski, Eric M Wallen, Angela B Smith, Hung-Jui Tan
While diversity and inclusion efforts have increased in urology, comparative analysis of personal statements from 2016-2017 and 2022-2023 residency applications showed few linguistic changes over time by gender or race/ethnicity. These results suggest the need for directed efforts to engage, mentor, and coach females and underrepresented minorities during medical school and the urology application process.
November 2023: Urologic Clinics of North America
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Arwa K Alzahrani, Alaa H Banaser, Rola R Alsulami, Yazeed A Alluqmani, Gada S Althubyani, Fatimah H Al Luhaybi, Sarah M Alqurashi, Abeer Y Al-Alwani, Khalid T Aboalshamat
BACKGROUND: Social media (SM) usage is on the rise among health professionals at all levels to align with the emerging digital and SM era. e-Professionalism is described as attitudes and actions that resemble traditional professionalism paradigms but are expressed through digital media. Although there are a number of studies conducted in the past several years measuring e-professionalism of medical and dental professionals, there is no validated scale to assess the level of e-professionalism among medical and dental professionals in Saudi Arabia...
June 2023: Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cooper L Stone, Godwin Y Dogbey, John Falls, Yen-Ping Kuo
CONTEXT: As the number of medical school graduates continues to outpace the available residency training positions, applying for residency in the United States has become a highly competitive process, often associated with a low rate of selection and invitation for interview. The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Program Director survey provides data assessing factors considered by Program Directors (PD) in selecting and inviting candidates for interview. Assessing the evolution of these factors over time is efficacious to inform and guide prospective applicants toward improving preparation for residency application...
August 25, 2023: Journal of osteopathic medicine
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EDITORIAL
Mohsen Saidinejad, Susan Duffy, Dina Wallin, Jennifer A Hoffmann, Madeline Joseph, Jennifer Schieferle Uhlenbrock, Kathleen Brown, Muhammad Waseem, Sally K Snow, Madeline Andrew, Alice A Kuo, Carmen Sulton, Thomas Chun, Lois K Lee, Gregory P Conners, James Callahan, Toni Gross, Madeline Joseph, Lois Lee, Elizabeth Mack, Jennifer Marin, Suzan Mazor, Ronald Paul, Nathan Timm, Ann M Dietrich, Kiyetta H Alade, Christopher S Amato, Zaza Atanelov, Marc Auerbach, Isabel A Barata, Lee S Benjamin, Kathleen T Berg, Kathleen Brown, Cindy Chang, Jessica Chow, Corrie E Chumpitazi, Ilene A Claudius, Joshua Easter, Ashley Foster, Sean M Fox, Marianne Gausche-Hill, Michael J Gerardi, Jeffrey M Goodloe, Melanie Heniff, James Jim L Homme, Paul T Ishimine, Susan D John, Madeline M Joseph, Samuel Hiu-Fung Lam, Simone L Lawson, Moon O Lee, Joyce Li, Sophia D Lin, Dyllon Ivy Martini, Larry Bruce Mellick, Donna Mendez, Emory M Petrack, Lauren Rice, Emily A Rose, Timothy Ruttan, Mohsen Saidinejad, Genevieve Santillanes, Joelle N Simpson, Shyam M Sivasankar, Daniel Slubowski, Annalise Sorrentino, Michael J Stoner, Carmen D Sulton, Jonathan H Valente, Samreen Vora, Jessica J Wall, Dina Wallin, Theresa A Walls, Muhammad Waseem, Dale P Woolridge, Cam Brandt, Krisi M Kult, Justin J Milici, Nicholas A Nelson, Michele A Redlo, Maureen R Curtis Cooper, Michele Redlo, Krisi Kult, Katherine Logee, Dixie Elizabeth Bryant, Maureen Curtis Cooper, Kristen Cline
Mental and behavioral health (MBH) emergencies in children and youth continue to increasingly affect not only the emergency department (ED), but the entire spectrum of emergency medical services for children, from prehospital services to the community. Inadequate community and institutional infrastructure to care for children and youth with MBH conditions makes the ED an essential part of the health care safety net for these patients. As a result, an increasing number of children and youth are referred to the ED for evaluation of a broad spectrum of MBH emergencies, from depression and suicidality to disruptive and aggressive behavior...
September 2023: Annals of Emergency Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mohsen Saidinejad, Susan Duffy, Dina Wallin, Jennifer A Hoffmann, Madeline Joseph, Jennifer Schieferle Uhlenbrock, Kathleen Brown, Muhammad Waseem, Sally K Snow, Madeline Andrew, Alice A Kuo, Carmen Sulton, Thomas Chun, Lois K Lee
Mental and behavioral health (MBH) emergencies in children and youth continue to increasingly affect not only the emergency department (ED), but the entire spectrum of emergency medical services for children, from prehospital services to the community. Inadequate community and institutional infrastructure to care for children and youth with MBH conditions makes the ED an essential part of the health care safety net for these patients. As a result, an increasing number of children and youth are referred to the ED for evaluation of a broad spectrum of MBH emergencies, from depression and suicidality to disruptive and aggressive behavior...
August 10, 2023: Journal of Emergency Nursing: JEN: Official Publication of the Emergency Department Nurses Association
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Waridibo E Allison, Aro N Choi, Keito Kawasaki, Anmol Desai, Joel Tsevat, Trisha V Melhado
Direct-acting antivirals are overwhelmingly effective in curing hepatitis C (HCV). Barriers to HCV treatment exist for those co-infected with both HIV and HCV. Southern states represent the epicenter of the HIV epidemic in the United States. This study assessed HCV knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions in 318 co-infected individuals attending Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) clinics in three South Texas cities. Two groups were compared, those tested for HCV and aware of their results (Group 1) and those uncertain if they were tested or tested and unaware of their results (Group 2)...
July 13, 2023: Health Promotion Practice
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fatuma-Ayaan B Rinderknecht, Aminta Kouyate, Semhar Teklu, Monica Hahn
INTRODUCTION: Black, Latinx, and Native American and Alaska Native people are underrepresented in medicine. The increasingly competitive medical school application process poses challenges for students who are underrepresented in medicine or historically excluded from medicine (UIM/HEM). The University of California, San Francisco-University of California, Berkeley (UCSF-UCB) White Coats for Black Lives Mentorship Program provides a novel and antiracist approach to mentorship for these premedical students...
June 15, 2023: Preventing Chronic Disease
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Joseph M Maciuba, Yating Teng, Matthew Pflipsen, Mary A Andrews, Steven J Durning
INTRODUCTION: As gatekeepers to the medical profession, admissions committees make important decisions through the analysis of quantitative (e.g. test scores and grade point averages) and qualitative (e.g. letters of recommendation and personal statements) data. One area of the application that deserves additional study is the Work and Activities section, where students describe their extracurricular experiences. Previous research has found different themes that sometimes overlap in the applications of exceptional performing and low performing medical students, but it is unclear if these themes are present in the applications of standard performers...
May 18, 2023: Military Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Upcoming Pass/Fail USMLE Step 1 Score Reporting: An Impact Assessment From Medical School Deans.
Samuel M Manstein, Elizabeth Laikhter, Darya D Kazei, Carly D Comer, Eric Shiah, Samuel J Lin
Background: The US Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) Step 1 change to pass/fail has been met with mixed reviews, and the impact on medical student education and residency match is unknown. We surveyed medical school student affairs deans regarding their thoughts on the upcoming transition of Step 1 to pass/fail. Methods: A questionnaire was emailed to medical school deans. Deans were asked to rank the importance of the following after the Step 1 reporting change: Step 2 Clinical Knowledge (Step 2 CK), clerkship grades, letters of recommendation, personal statement, medical school reputation, class rank, Medical Student Performance Evaluation, and research...
May 2023: Plastic Surgery
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Paul Garrud
The AMEE Guide to Selection for medical school is a welcome addition that provides much sound advice and guidance. It employs a comprehensive framework and a number of innovations, international case studies, for instance. There are also some omissions that a future revision could usefully address. The key ones concern the evidence base for assessment of personal attributes by questionnaire or interview; conflation of two separable stages in selection, meeting minimum requirements for suitability, and discriminating between suitable candidates; how best to provide feedback to candidates; and the question of what counts as a fair, equitable approach to selection...
May 15, 2023: Medical Teacher
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Curt Tribble
So, you've got students clamoring for help writing their personal statements for Surgery Residency applications? Writing a personal statement for an application to a residency program is often one of the most daunting aspects of the application process. In fact, it is probably the most daunting part of that process. However, there is a surprising paucity of information about how best to approach writing these residency application essays, in stark contrast to the plentiful advice available for other types of applications, such as those required for college or medical school admission...
November 30, 2022: Heart Surgery Forum
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ivan Banovac, Nataša Kovačić, Ana Hladnik, Andrea Blažević, Ivana Bičanić, Zdravko Petanjek, Vedran Katavić
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic caused major shifts in students' learning strategies as well as teaching environments that profoundly affected the delivery of anatomy courses in medical schools. The Department of Anatomy at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine had a unique experience where the anatomy course in 2019/2020 was first taught in-person before transferring to an online course delivery, while the inverse happened in 2020/2021. The core curriculum, course material and examination criteria were the same in both academic years...
December 19, 2022: Annals of Anatomy
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