Prognosis Communication in Heart Failure: Experiences and Preferences of End-Stage Heart Failure Patients and Care Partners.

Background: Patients with heart failure (HF) overestimate survival compared with model-predicted estimates, but the reasons for this discrepancy are poorly understood. We characterized how patients with end-stage HF and their care partners understand prognosis and elicited their preferences around prognosis communication.

Methods: We conducted in-depth, semistructured interviews with patients with end-stage HF and their care partners between 2021 and 2022 at a tertiary care center in Michigan.

The Hidden Burden: Qualitative Differences in How URiM Students Experience the Clinical Microenvironment.

Introduction: It is well documented that medical students who identify as underrepresented in medicine are more likely to encounter social challenges in the clinical environment. Successful navigation of these challenges requires a social and emotional agility that is unmeasured in traditional metrics of success. The effects of this requirement has not yet been explored.

Barriers to colorectal cancer screening in Ghana: a qualitative study of patients and physicians.

Purpose: The incidence of colorectal cancer (CRC) in Ghana has increased eightfold since the 1960s. In 2011, national guidelines were set forth recommending all patients aged 50-70 years old undergo annual CRC screening with fecal occult blood testing (FOBT), but adherence to these guidelines is poor and screening rates remain low for unclear reasons.

Methods: We performed semi-structured interviews with 28 Ghanaians including physicians (n = 14) and patients (n = 14) from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana, to better understand the factors driving screening adherence and perceived barriers identified in an earlier quantitative study.

Pragmatic Mentoring Strategies for the Busy Surgeon Scientist.

Objective: The value of research mentorship in academic medicine is well-recognized, yet there is little practical advice for how to develop and sustain effective mentoring partnerships. Gaining research skill and mentorship is particularly critical to success in academic surgery, yet surgeon scientists are challenged in their mentorship efforts by time constraints and lack of education on how to mentor. To address this gap, this study explored the strategies that award-winning faculty mentors utilize in collaborating with their medical student mentees in research.

[Influenza and its complications].

Influenza is viral acute respiratory illness. During winter season flu occurs in local epidemics of various magnitude. Influenza causes substantial loss of workdays, human suffering, and significant mortality rate in population, despite the existing treat ment and effective vaccination.