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The Financial Burden Of The Urology Match: Room For Improvement, Jinfeng Jiang, Joshua S. Engelsgjerd, Chad A. Lagrange, Christopher M. Deibert

Graduate Medical Education Research Journal

Abstract

Introduction/ Background – The Urology match remains highly competitive, but there is limited published data on the costs of the application process for contemporary applicants. This study aims to determine the financial burden of the Urological match and the effect it has on applicants.

Methods/ Materials – All applicants to the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) Urology Residency in the 2019 Urology match were invited to complete an anonymous, IRB approved online survey containing 16 questions on interview travel and costs, financial aid, and debt burden.

Results – Thirty-nine out of 183 (21%) applicants responded to the survey. …

An Overview Of Neurology Residency Training In Epilepsy At The University Of Nebraska Medical Center, Daniel Crespo Artunduaga, Mohamed Taha, Arun Swaminathan

Graduate Medical Education Research Journal

Neurology residency offers a comprehensive training program over 4 years in management of various neurological disorders. Epilepsy represents a common condition managed by neurologists and forms a core curriculum in the training of neurology residents. We conducted an anonymous survey among the trainees at our neurology program to identify knowledge and treatment gaps and help us modify our training regimens to provide high impact and good quality training to our trainees. We conducted a 35-question survey to determine various aspects of our neurology residents’ training to identify and overcome shortfalls. Our program requirements are rigorous and match up with those …

Can We Actually Improve Resident Wellness? Pilot Data From A Longitudinal Wellness Curriculum For Emergency Medicine Residents, Anne M. Messman, Claire Min-Venditti, Elizebeth Dubey, Brian Reed, Hanhan Zhang, Hafez Bazzi, James Paxton

Journal of Wellness

Objectives/Background: The wellness of resident physicians, particularly in emergency medicine with its high rate of burnout, has become of paramount importance to residency programs. This study aims to evaluate the effects of the implementation of an evidence-based wellness curriculum on self-reported resident wellness across three emergency medicine residency programs.

Methods: This is a prospective, interventional study of the impact of a well-defined, longitudinal wellness curriculum administered to all categorical residents in three emergency medicine residency programs. Anonymous surveys incorporating the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) were administered before and after implementation of the …

Academic Service-Learning Experience Embraces The Vincentian Mission In Physician Assistant Education, Alyssa Quinlan, Pamela Gregory-Fernandez, Corinne Alois, Carla Hernandez Goodman

Journal of Vincentian Social Action

Motivated by the belief that health care is a basic human right and driven by a Vincentian mission, St. John’s University Physician Assistant Program incorporates service minded educational experiences created to expose students to the necessity to reach those most in need—“the poor, alienated and the aged.” In Spring 2018, in conjunction with the SJU Academic Service-Learning program, a geriatric service assignment was integrated into the geriatric course curriculum. Working with Selfhelp Virtual Senior Center, local senior centers and nursing homes, students participated in an outreach project to serve senior citizens. Students shared their experiences through reflection and pre- …

Wellness Domains For Residency Training Programs, Danielle Hart, Glenn Paetow, Ramin Tabatabai, Rochelle Zarzar, Arlene S. Chung

Journal of Wellness

In this editorial, we describe a residency-specific wellness framework that residency leadership can utilize in developing their local wellness programs.

Development And Validation Of A Tool For Measuring The Professional Identity Of Nursing Students: The Q-Ipei / Le Développement Et La Validation D’Un Instrument De Mesure De L’Identité Professionnelle Chez Les Étudiantes Infirmières : Le Q-Ipei, Eric Tchouaket, Dominique Houle, Dominique Therrien, Catherine Larouche, Annie Denoncourt, Pascale Reny

Quality Advancement in Nursing Education - Avancées en formation infirmière

Background: The various pressures on nurses in their practice environment, given the complexity of care, have exposed the confusion around the role definition and level of professional identity (PI) of future nurses. To support them in their practice, it is important throughout their education to know their commitment, representations, and sense of identity with respect to their future profession. To our knowledge, there is no measurement tool in the literature that can be used to measure the PI of nursing students throughout their education, given its complex multidimensional nature.

Objective: Based on a framework that takes into account …

The Admissions Criteria For Professional Athletic Training Programs: A 2018 Review Of Post-Baccalaureate Degrees, Heidi L. Peters, Elizabeth R. Neil, Zachary K. Winkelmann, Lindsey E. Eberman

Journal of Sports Medicine and Allied Health Sciences: Official Journal of the Ohio Athletic Trainers Association

Purpose: Athletic training education has advanced its professional degree to an entry level masters, a decision motivated by professional health education developments over the last 10 years. In respect to Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE) accreditation standards as well as evolutionary changes in athletic training education, current prerequisite expectations of entry level applicants are largely dependent upon program. Analysis of the publicly available documents via websites and other programmatic documents of professional athletic training including prerequisite classes, supplemental admissions requirements, length and credits of program, cost of attendance and degree level of core faculty. Methods: 144 professional …

The Role Of Using Formative Assessments In Problem-Based Learning: A Health Sciences Education Perspective, Kristi W. Kelley, Julaine M. Fowlin, Andrew A. Tawfik, Max C. Anderson

Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning

Practitioners in the field of pharmacy are often confronted with ill-structured problems. Specifically, pharmacists are tasked with making patient-specific recommendations that are both safe and effective, which requires combining knowledge from the biomedical, behavioral, and pharmaceutical sciences. Given the dynamic nature of pharmacy as a profession, the field has begun to explore learning strategies that go beyond mere content coverage to strategies that better support higher-order learning outcomes. One of these approaches is problem-based learning (PBL). While studies have focused on how to support PBL to improve learning outcomes, the role of assessment is often overlooked. Further exploration is thus …

Students’ Knowledge And Attitudes: An Interprofessional Education Workshop And Experience, Patricia Davidson, Scott Heinerichs, Melissa Reed, Elizabeth Grillo, Christine Thomas, Gopal Sankaran, Neil Curtis, Nadine Bean

International Journal of Health Sciences Education

Background: Interprofessional Education (IPE) can improve teamwork among future healthcare professionals, but the academic structural environment can be a barrier to its implementation.

Methods and Results: Students from seven professional programs (athletic training. exercise science, nursing, nutrition, public health, social work, and speech-language pathology) participated in a two-part IPE program consisting of: a web-based education module and an in-person interactive workshop. Students were administered a deidentified pre/post survey to assess changes in their knowledge and attitudes toward IPE. A total of 54 students participated in both components with 46 students completing both surveys. After participating in the IPE …

Factors Influencing Graduate Program Choice Among Undergraduate Women, Bryna J. Harrington, Halei C. Benefield, Brooke C. Matson, Rebecca E. Hamlin, Jennifer E. L. Diaz, Grace E. Mosley, Rushina Cholera, Audrey R. Verde

Cooper Rowan Medical Journal

Context: Despite equal enrollment proportions in MD and PhD programs, there are fewer women than men in MD-PhD programs and academic medicine. Factors important in degree program selection, including the perception of gender disparities, among undergraduate students were characterized.

Methods: In 2017, pre-health students at four public North Carolina universities were invited to participate in an online survey regarding career plans, decision factors, and perceptions of gender disparities in MD, PhD and MD-PhD pathways. The authors characterized factors important to program selection, and evaluated the association of intended graduate program with perceived gender disparities using Fisher’s exact tests.

Results: …

Incorporating Home Visits In A Primary Care Residency Clinic: The Patient And Physician Experience, Mary Caitlin St. Clair, Jessica J. F. Kram, Glenda Sundberg

Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews

Purpose: Home visits, once a popular but now uncommon form of health care delivery, are on the rise. Few studies have focused on the value the experience brings to resident physicians and their patients.

Methods: A 6-month pilot was conducted with 11 residents who participated in 32 home visits with 11 patients. Patient and resident experiences were captured through a survey following the home visits.

Results: In all, 100% of patients and a majority of residents were very interested in being a part of and incorporating future home visits, respectively. Every patient in the survey said that the visits resulted …

Socio-Demographic Predictors Associated With Capacity To Engage In Health Care, Ran Sun, Linden Wu, Scott Barnett, Patsy Deyo, Ellen Swartwout

Patient Experience Journal

Patient engagement is essential to improve outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. This study aimed to examine the socio-demographic factors associated with one’s capacity to engage in their health care. An observational, cross-sectional study was performed including patients from five medical/surgical units of four health systems. Patients’ engagement capacity was assessed using the person engagement index (PEI) instrument which contains four subscales: engagement in health care, technology use in health care, proactive approach to health care, and psychosocial support for health care. Separate general linear models were applied for the PEI total score and each of the four subscale scores. Our …

Changing The Surgical Residency: A Mixed-Methods Study Of Residents’ And Faculty Experiences One Year After Implementation, Sarah B. Cairo, Wendy Craig, Caitlin Gutheil, Paul K. J. Han, Kristiina Hyrkas, Lynda Macken, Jim Whiting

Journal of Maine Medical Center

Objective: To evaluate a reformed surgical residency curriculum aimed at addressing emerging practice models, enhancing residents’ educational experience, and improving the quality/continuity of patient care by reducing the service size and enhancing attending-resident interactions.

Methods: A mixed-methods study of the surgical training program following curriculum reform including: 1) focus group and individual qualitative interviews with residents, attendings, nurses, and advanced practice providers to explore stakeholder perspectives on curriculum reform, 2) time study of surgical resident activities, and 3) quantitative assessment of surgical case logs.

Results: Qualitative interviews demonstrated disparate knowledge and attitudes regarding the goals of the curriculum with emergence …

Listen To Us: Dad-Endorsed Strategies For Ehdi Professionals, Holly F. Pedersen Dr., Jerusha Olthoff

Journal of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention

While fathers play an increasingly important role in today’s families, there is an imbalance of research regarding fathers of children with disabilities compared to mothers. Modest research with mothers of children who are deaf/hard of hearing exists; however, very limited research is available specific to fathers of that population. With the advent of newborn hearing screening, the number of children who have hearing loss being identified within the first six months of life has significantly increased. Thus, the number of fathers participating in EHDI services has also increased. Seeking to answer the question, What do fathers’ experiences in the early …

Comparisons Of Bmi, Body Fat Percentage, And Abdominal Girth As Obesity Indexes For College Students, Z. Zou, O. Wilson, Z. Papalia, M. Bopp, C. Bopp

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

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Validity Of Barbell Velocities Recorded From The Gymaware Device During Squat And Bench Press Exercises, D. Zangakis, G. Moir, B. Snyder, S. Munford

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

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Patient Perceptions Of A Cancer Rehabilitation Program Which Provides 12 Weeks Of Individualized Exercise Prescription, T. Yahner, K. Wonders, S. Lorusso

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

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Static Cerebral Autoregulation Is Not Altered In Symptomatic Concussed Athletes During Acute Central Hypervolemia, M. Worley, M. O'Leary, J. Sackett, Z. Schlader, J. Leddy, B. Johnson

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

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Effects Of Varied Rest Intervals On Vertical Countermovement Jump Performance And Fatigue Index, C. Woolf, J. Bertino, A. Smarsh, S. White, J. Sanders

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

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Facial Expressions And Performance: Testing The Effects During A Muscular Endurance Task, D. Woods, E. Schultz, A. O'Brien, U. Tokac, J. Harris, M. Reed, M. Whidden, S. Razon

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

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Exercise And High-Fat Diets Upregulate Endoplasmic Reticulum Membrane Protein Sensors And Muc2 In Female Mice, P. Wisniewski, N. Malonza, L. Hall, R. Dowden, S. Campbell

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

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Exercise Intensity: Do Individuals Perceive It As We Physiologically Define It?, K. Wisniewski

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

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Measured Vs. Self-Report Height, Weight And Bmi: Relationships With Health Outcomes And Behaviors, O. Wilson, C. Bopp, Z. Papalia, M. Bopp

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

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The Effects Of Static And Dynamic Stretching On Postural Stability, Hip Flexibility, And Power, S. Williams, H. Maraday, J. Marrero-Rivera, K. Starr, D. Kreiger, S. Kieffer

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

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Comparison Of Gait Patterns And Everyday Dual-Tasks In College Students, K. Williams, M. Coppola, J. Pruskowski, N. Dalfo, S. Castillo, S. Forlenza, S. Paulson

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

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Metabolic And Cardiovascular Effects Of Standing While Performing Computer Work, J. Willet, E. Matthews, P. Hosick

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

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Reliability And Validity Analysis Of The Cosmed K5 Portable Metabolic System, L. White, J. Deblois, T. Barreira

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

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Investigating Bilateral Asymmetries In Joint Angular Motion Of The Lower Limb During Running, T. Whitacre, S. Mangeri, D. Stearne, K. Clarke

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

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Examining The Effect Of A Dance Technique Class On Postural Stability In Novice Collegiate Dancers, H. Weighart, M. Roberts, S. Dipasquale

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

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Blood Pressure Reactivity During Short-Term Water Restriction In Older Adults, J. Watso, M. Babcock, A. Robinson, K. Migdal, S. Stocker, M. Wenner, W. Farquhar

International Journal of Exercise Science: Conference Proceedings

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