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Improving Scholarship in a Community Hospital Residency Program with a Curriculum featuring a Structured Roadmap, Indi [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Introduction The requirement of resident scholarship in all residency programs is mandated by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Scholarly output of residents graduating between 2016-2018 (pre-intervention) was compared to those graduating from 2019 -2021 (post-intervention).

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Predictors of exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec, Canada [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Drug reimbursement claims were used to identify periods of overlapping exposure to 2 or more prescription drugs between April 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016. Study design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort study using provincial administrative health databases. DDI were identified using the list of high-priority DDI of the U.S.

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From Surgeries To Keeping Company: The Place Of Robots In Healthcare

The Medical Futurist

Assisting surgeries, disinfecting rooms, dispensing medication, keeping company: believe it or not these are the tasks medical robots will soon undertake in hospitals, pharmacies, or your nearest doctor’s office. Instead of a human, however, they used a mannequin designed for medical training.

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Study examines racial disparities in older patients hospitalized for heart attacks

Medical Xpress

In an analysis in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society that included data on 2,918 patients aged 75 years or older who were hospitalized for heart attacks at 94 US hospitals from 2013–2016, Black participants were more likely than white participants to have impairments in cognition (37.6% versus 14.5%), mobility (66.0%

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Episode 288: WDx #23: Clinical Unknown Discussion with Dr Rebecca Berger

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Rebecca Berger Rebecca is an academic hospitalist and assistant professor of medicine at Weil Cornell Medicine and New York Presbyterian Hospital. She served as a NEJM Editorial Fellow from 2016-2017 and worked as a hospitalist at MGH before moving to Cornell in 2018.

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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

Just like in the case of other medical specialties , disruptive innovations will have a huge impact on how dentistry will be practiced and how patients will take care of themselves in the future. In comparison, the first VR-recorded surgery was performed at the Royal London Hospital in 2016.

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Most Pediatric Anaphylaxis ED Cases Clear for Discharge After 2 Hours

Physician's Weekly

“Children presenting to the emergency department with anaphylaxis typically receive at least one dose of epinephrine and are observed in the emergency department or monitored for recurrent (biphasic anaphylaxis) or persistent symptoms on hospital wards for variable durations before discharge is considered safe,” wrote corresponding author Timothy E.