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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38461761/pearls-and-pitfalls-in-letters-of-recommendation-for-neurology-residency-applications
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ryka R Sehgal, Harini Sarva, Joseph E Safdieh, Matthew S Robbins
Letters of recommendation are a cornerstone of residency applications. Variability and bias in letters exists across specialties, neurology being no exception. Studies done in other specialty fields assessing nuanced language uncovered key attention points for improvement and mitigation of bias, lessons from which should be applied in the field of neurology. We review common pearls and pitfalls in the letter solicitation, writing and reading process, with suggested best-practices for residency applicants, letter writers, and program faculty reviewers...
March 5, 2024: Journal of the Neurological Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38456505/interventions-to-support-fellowship-application-success-among-predoctoral-physician-scientists
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REVIEW
Reiko Maki Fitzsimonds, Fred S Gorelick, Barbara I Kazmierczak
A critical element of physician-scientist training is the development and practice of core competencies that promote success in research careers. The ability to develop compelling training and research proposals is one such foundational skill. The NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) individual fellowship for dual-degree students (F30, F31, or F31-Diversity) creates an ideal opportunity to provide formal instruction in grant-writing skills to physician-scientists early in training...
March 8, 2024: JCI Insight
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38451584/evaluating-the-experiences-of-occupational-therapists-and-children-using-the-sensogrip-pressure-sensitive-pen-in-a-handwriting-intervention-multimethods-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lena Rettinger, Erna Schönthaler, Andrea Kerschbaumer, Carina Hauser, Carissa Klupper, Lea Aichinger, Franz Werner
BACKGROUND: The acquisition of handwriting skills is essential for a child's academic success, self-confidence, and general school performance. Nevertheless, an estimated 5% to 27% of children face handwriting challenges, where the ability to modulate pressure on the pencil and lead on the paper is a key motor component. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to investigate the experience with and usability of the SensoGrip system, a pressure-measuring pen system with personalized real-time feedback about pressure modulation, in a clinical setting with children and occupational therapists (OTs)...
March 7, 2024: JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38447524/enhancing-evidence-based-practice-into-healthcare-exploring-the-role-of-scientific-skills-in-occupational-therapists
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Desirée Valera-Gran, Irene Campos-Sánchez, Daniel Prieto-Botella, Paula Fernández-Pires, Miriam Hurtado-Pomares, Iris Juárez-Leal, Paula Peral-Gómez, Eva María Navarrete-Muñoz
BACKGROUND: Research utilization and evidence-based practice (EBP) in occupational therapy rely on essential scientific skills. Despite prior research exploring factors influencing EBP, a gap remains in understanding the specific scientific competencies crucial for effective EBP application. OBJECTIVES: To (1) describe the level of scientific skills for EBP and research application, and (2) investigate the factors influencing higher scientific competence among 1159 Spanish-speaking occupational therapists...
February 24, 2024: Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38443723/integrating-a-self-directed-ultrasound-curriculum-for-the-internal-medicine-clerkship
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Emily Signor, John Gerstenberger, Jennifer Cotton, Jorie Colbert-Getz, Katie Lappé
BACKGROUND: Incorporating ultrasound into the clinical curriculum of undergraduate medical education has been limited by a need for faculty support. Without integration into the clinical learning environment, ultrasound skills become a stand-alone skill and may decline by the time of matriculation into residency. A less time intensive ultrasound curriculum is needed to preserve skills acquired in preclinical years. We aimed to create a self-directed ultrasound curriculum to support and assess students' ability to acquire ultrasound images and to utilize ultrasound to inform clinical decision-making...
March 5, 2024: The ultrasound journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38442066/handwriting-for-text-input-and-the-impact-of-xr-displays-surface-alignments-and-sentence-complexities
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Florian Kern, Jonathan Tschanter, Marc Erich Latoschik
Text input is desirable across various eXtended Reality (XR) use cases and is particularly crucial for knowledge and office work. This article compares handwriting text input between Virtual Reality (VR) and Video See-Through Augmented Reality (VST AR), facilitated by physically aligned and mid-air surfaces when writing simple and complex sentences. In a 2x2x2 experimental design, 72 participants performed two ten-minute handwriting sessions, each including ten simple and ten complex sentences representing text input in real-world scenarios...
March 5, 2024: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38441945/what-s-in-a-name-experimental-evidence-of-gender-bias-in-recommendation-letters-generated-by-chatgpt
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Deanna M Kaplan, Roman Palitsky, Santiago J Arconada Alvarez, Nicole S Pozzo, Morgan N Greenleaf, Ciara A Atkinson, Wilbur A Lam
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence chatbots such as ChatGPT (OpenAI) have garnered excitement about their potential for delegating writing tasks ordinarily performed by humans. Many of these tasks (eg, writing recommendation letters) have social and professional ramifications, making the potential social biases in ChatGPT's underlying language model a serious concern. OBJECTIVE: Three preregistered studies used the text analysis program Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count to investigate gender bias in recommendation letters written by ChatGPT in human-use sessions (N=1400 total letters)...
March 5, 2024: Journal of Medical Internet Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38441101/hispanic-latino-ethnicity-and-loss-of-post-surgery-independent-living-a-retrospective-cohort-study-from-a-bronx-hospital-network
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Annika S Witt, Maíra I Rudolph, Felix Dailey Sterling, Omid Azimaraghi, Luca J Wachtendorf, Elilary Montilla Medrano, Vilma Joseph, Oluwaseun Akeju, Karuna Wongtangman, Tracey Straker, Ibraheem M Karaye, Timothy T Houle, Matthias Eikermann, Adela Aguirre-Alarcon
BACKGROUND: Black race is associated with postoperative adverse discharge to a nursing facility, but the effects of Hispanic/Latino ethnicity are unclear. We explored the Hispanic paradox, described as improved health outcomes among Hispanic/Latino patients on postoperative adverse discharge to nursing facility. METHODS: A total of 93,356 adults who underwent surgery and were admitted from home to Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, between January 2016 and June 2021 were included...
March 5, 2024: Anesthesia and Analgesia
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38435135/implementation-and-evaluation-of-a-pilot-narrative-medicine-curriculum-for-internal-medicine-residents
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rebecca K Tsevat, Peter Young, Eunice Zhang, Samuel Baugh, Antonio M Pessegueiro
Background Narrative medicine has been integrated into medical training to enhance competencies such as observation, reflection, and self-care. However, few studies have assessed the impact of a single narrative medicine session using a pre- and post-test study design. The authors of this study sought to implement a pilot narrative medicine curriculum into a large internal medicine residency program and to evaluate its feasibility and impact. Methodology The curriculum consisted of a one-hour reading and writing workshop held during ambulatory academic half-days from 2021 to 2022...
February 2024: Curēus
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38429724/reflective-capacity-and-context-of-reflections-qualitative-study-of-second-year-medical-students-learning-diaries-related-to-a-general-practice-course
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Elina Paloniemi, Maria Hagnäs, Ilona Mikkola, Markku Timonen, Ritva Vatjus
BACKGROUND: Reflective capacity is a prerequisite for transformative learning. It is regarded as an essential skill in professional competence in the field of medicine. Our aim was to investigate the reflective capacity and the objects of action (themes) which revealed reflective writing of medical students during a general practice/family medicine course. METHODS: Second-year medical students were requested to write learning diaries during a compulsory course in general practice/family medicine consisting of the principles of the physician-patient relationship...
March 1, 2024: BMC Medical Education
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38415627/writing-for-the-role-a-qualitative-exploration-of-new-graduate-physiotherapists-transition-to-practice-of-clinical-documentation
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sarah Wilesmith, Allison Mandrusiak, Romany Martin, Andric Lu, Roma Forbes
INTRODUCTION: Clinical documentation is an integral component of effective physiotherapy practice. Minimal research has explored how new graduate physiotherapists transition to practice of documentation. OBJECTIVE: To understand new graduate physiotherapists' experiences and support needs for transitioning into this professional role, from the perspectives of new graduates and clinical supervisors. METHODS: This study utilized the qualitative methodology of reflexive thematic analysis, situated within a critical realist framework and informed by Duchscher's stages of transition theory...
February 28, 2024: Physiotherapy Theory and Practice
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38410479/mr-compatible-tactile-stimulator-system-application-for-individuals-with-brain-injuries
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Nahid KalantaryArdebily, Anna C Feldbush, Netta Gurari
Accurate perception of tactile information is essential for performing activities of daily living and learning new sensorimotor skills like writing. Deficits in perceiving tactile stimuli are associated with severity in physical disability. The mechanisms contributing to tactile deficits in individuals with brain injuries remain poorly understood in part due to insufficient assessment methods. Here, we provide a tactile stimulator system for studying the neural mechanisms contributing to tactile deficits in individuals with brain injuries during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)...
February 15, 2024: Research Square
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38409737/an-idea-to-explore-cultivating-the-art-of-proposal-writing-among-graduate-students
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rajiv K Kar
Proposal writing is an essential requirement for making progress in academics. Learning this skill necessitates support from a mentor to cultivate effective habits. It entails effective strategies from graduate students, such as literature reading and using online tools. Additionally, they must develop an understanding of resource accountability, system thinking, and considering deadlines as a driving force. Good practices for effective proposal writing also involve planning to summarize the work done in the field...
February 26, 2024: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38401231/from-whole-numbers-to-fractions-to-word-problems-hierarchical-relations-in-mathematics-knowledge-for-chinese-grade-6-students
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Chang Xu, Sabrina Di Lonardo Burr, Hongxia Li, Chang Liu, Jiwei Si
It is well established in the literature that fraction knowledge is important for learning more advanced mathematics, but the hierarchical relations among whole number arithmetic, fraction knowledge, and mathematics word problem-solving are not well understood. In the current study, Chinese Grade 6 students (N = 1160; 465 girls; Mage  = 12.1 years, SD = 0.6) completed whole number arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division), fraction (mapping, equivalence, comparison, and arithmetic), and mathematics word problem-solving assessments...
February 23, 2024: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38396592/understanding-communication-barriers-demographic-variables-and-language-needs-in-the-interaction-between-english-speaking-animal-professionals-and-spanish-speaking-animal-caretakers
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Allen Jimena Martinez Aguiriano, Leonor Salazar, Silvana Pietrosemoli, Marcelo Schmidt, Babafela Awosile, Arlene Garcia
This study focused on assessing the language needs of English-speaking animal professionals in their interactions with Hispanic/Spanish-speaking animal caretakers. A survey was administered to a target audience of non-Spanish speaking and bilingual animal professionals to identify communication gaps while interacting with Hispanic/Spanish-speaking animal caretakers. The data was analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics, including ordinal regression analyses to examine the impact of demographic variables on respondents' answer choices...
February 15, 2024: Animals: An Open Access Journal From MDPI
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38383427/postexamination-item-analysis-of-undergraduate-pediatric-multiple-choice-questions-exam-implications-for-developing-a-validated-question-bank
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nagwan I Rashwan, Soha R Aref, Omnia A Nayel, Mennatallah H Rizk
INTRODUCTION: Item analysis (IA) is widely used to assess the quality of multiple-choice questions (MCQs). The objective of this study was to perform a comprehensive quantitative and qualitative item analysis of two types of MCQs: single best answer (SBA) and extended matching questions (EMQs) currently in use in the Final Pediatrics undergraduate exam. METHODOLOGY: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted. We analyzed 42 SBA and 4 EMQ administered to 247 fifth-year medical students...
February 21, 2024: BMC Medical Education
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38378159/lgbtq-inclusivity-training-and-education-a-toolkit-for-skilled-nursing-facilities
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jennifer T May, Alexis Domeracki, Glaucia Salgado, Foxx Hart, Perisa Ashar, Melanie Wang, Devon Noonan, Jason Wheeler
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to develop the LGBTQ+ Inclusivity Training and Education (LITE) toolkit and to examine the usability and acceptability of the LITE toolkit to health care workers and staff who work within skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). DESIGN: A community-engaged approach using human-centered design to develop the LITE toolkit. To test the usability and acceptability of the LITE toolkit, we provided a posttest survey to users after a 9-week period...
February 17, 2024: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38365708/cultural-threads-in-writing-mastery-a-structural-analysis-of-perfectionism-learning-self-efficacy-and-motivation-as-mediated-by-self-reflection-in-chinese-efl-learners
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ye Tao, Jianbin Yu
BACKGROUND: The study explores language acquisition in Chinese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education, where English proficiency is crucial for global opportunities. As China gains prominence, the demand for English skills rises beyond communication to include academic and business success. The Chinese education system emphasizes proficient English writing for further education and professional achievement. This research investigates the complex linguistic context for EFL learners in China, analyzing the intersection of psychological factors, cultural nuances, varied pedagogy, and individual experiences...
February 16, 2024: BMC Psychology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38358472/is-there-such-a-thing-as-an-indispensable-skills-profile-to-be-a-good-doctor-life-skills-as-essential-capabilities-in-the-medicoforensic-professions
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REVIEW
G Basile, S Marinelli, V Bolcato, L P Tronconi
This writing aims to convey the essential nature and features of a cultural tool based on a set of skills and capabilities generally referred to as "life skills", which allow for the proper management (in the medical and medical-forensic professional realms) of daily situations in an effective and rewarding fashion. Such a process is based on individual tools such as communication, problem solving, stress management, self-control, the ability to make timely decisions, empathy, creativity and the opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary setting...
2024: La Clinica Terapeutica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38357727/writing-effective-letters-of-recommendation-in-physiology
#40
EDITORIAL
Douglas R Seals
A letter of recommendation is a statement of support for a person that has been requested by some individual or organization. In physiology, the purpose of the letter may be to support admission to an academic program, funding of a fellowship grant proposal, consideration for a trainee position in a research laboratory, an award from a professional society, or an application for a job. The goal of the letter should be to provide personalized insight into the suitability of the candidate for the position or award that cannot be easily obtained from other materials in an application or nomination process...
February 15, 2024: Journal of Applied Physiology
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