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Age-Related Changes And Longitudinal Stability Of Individual Differences In Abcd Neurocognition Measures, Andrey P. Anokhin, Monica Luciana, Marie Banich, Deanna M. Barch, James M. Bjork, Marybel R. Gonzalez, Raul Gonzalez, Frank Haist, Joanna Jacobus, Krista Lisdahl, Erin Mcglade, Bruce Mccandliss, Bonnie Nagel, Sara J. Nixon, Susan Tapert, James T. Kennedy, Wesley K. Thompson

Psychiatry Publications

Temporal stability of individual differences is an important prerequisite for accurate tracking of prospective relationships between neurocognition and real-world behavioral outcomes such as substance abuse and psychopathology. Here we report age-related changes and longitudinal test-retest stability (TRS) for the Neurocognition battery of the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, which included the NIH Toolbox (TB) Cognitive Domain and additional memory and visuospatial processing tests administered at baseline (ages 9–11) and two-year follow-up. As expected, performance improved significantly with age, but the effect size varied broadly, with Pattern Comparison and the Crystallized Cognition Composite showing the largest age-related gain (Cohen’s …

Training Neurodegenerative Disease Support Group Leaders: A New Support Group Functioning Scale, Therese V. Cash, Christopher Kilbourn, Sarah K. Lageman

Neurology Publications

Support group leaders play pivotal roles in maintaining healthy community support groups; however, these leaders also have personal support needs and typically lack formal training in managing complex behaviors of neurodegenerative disorders. A support group well-being questionnaire, assessing support group functioning, was developed and piloted among participants of an educational training program designed for support group leaders of various neurodegenerative disorder-specific support groups. An exploratory factor analysis evaluated the questionnaire’s psychometric properties and identified a reliable single factor five-item solution, which was titled the Support Group Functioning Scale (SGFS). Preliminary interpretation guidelines were proposed. Development of this scale is a …

Navigating Unchartered Waters With Ussonar To Build An Integrative Mskus Curriculum For Mcv Rheumatology Fellowship Program, Faizah Siddique

Health Sciences Education Symposium

Musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSKUS) is an increasingly popular tool for the rheumatologist and less than 50% of rheumatology fellowship programs in the United States have a defined formal curriculum. The objectives here are to develop a formal and novel MSKUS curriculum for MCV Rheumatology program using an evidence-based 8-step model for our curriculum development. Results of Stage 1, situational analysis, showed unanimous need for dedicated need for MSKUS curriculum. While still early in this project, we hope to complete the remainder of the Stages by the end of 2017.

Preparing A Better Doctor: The C3 Curriculum And Osce Scores, Kimberly Pedram

Health Sciences Education Symposium

In 2013, a horizontally integrated 18 month curriculum (C3) for undergraduate medical students, which replaced the traditional 24 month basic sciences curriculum, was implemented at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. A retrospective, all-inclusive study was conducted comparing the performance of the last group of students completing the 24 month curriculum (the Class of 2016, n=196) and the first group of students completing the 18 month curriculum (the Class of 2017, n=205) on the end-of-course OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Exam). Students who completed the 18 month curriculum had significantly higher OSCE case scores (7.7 points, p <0.0001) as well as higher OSCE category scores (2.2 points, p = 0.002).

Developmental Changes In Genetic And Shared Environmental Contributions To Smoking Initiation And Subsequent Smoking Quantity In Adolescence And Young Adulthood, Cristina B. Bares, Kenneth S. Kendler, Hermine H. Maes

Psychiatry Publications

Background

Few studies examining the genetic architecture of cigarette smoking have focused on adolescents or examined developmental changes in additive genetic, shared environment and unique environmental influences on liability to initiate cigarette smoking and quantity of cigarettes smoked. The aim of this study is to add to the literature on liability to initiate and use cigarettes during adolescence using a nationally representative sample.

Method

Data for this study came from adolescent and young adult twin pairs (ages 14-33) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We ran a series of developmental causal-contingent-common pathway models to examine whether …