Peer Mentoring by Medical Students for Medical Students: A Scoping Review.

Medical school transitions pose challenges for students. Mentoring programs may aid students, but evidence supporting peer/near-peer mentoring in medical school is unclear. Our review explores peer mentoring's benefits, elements for success and challenges.

Clustering of > 145,000 symptom logs reveals distinct pre, peri, and menopausal phenotypes.

The transition to menopause is associated with disappearance of menstrual cycle symptoms and emergence of vasomotor symptoms. Although menopausal women report a variety of additional symptoms, it remains unclear which emerge prior to menopause, which occur in predictable clusters, how clusters change across the menopausal transition, or if distinct phenotypes are present within each life stage. We present an analysis of symptoms in premenopausal to menopausal women using the MenoLife app, which includes 4789 individuals (23% premenopausal, 29% perimenopausal, 48% menopausal) and 147,501 symptom logs (19% premenopausal, 39% perimenopausal, 42% menopausal).

Development of a rapid screener to elicit patient preferences for antiseizure medication discontinuation.

Objective: While guidelines encourage individualized discussions of the risks and benefits of antiseizure medication (ASM) withdrawal after a period of seizure-freedom, no formal methods exist for assessing patient preferences. We report the initial development of a rapid patient preferences screener.

Methods: We conducted a mixed-methods study of adults who were ≥1 year seizure-free and seen for epilepsy across three institutions.

Equipping a Wyatt multiangle, multidetector instrument for real-time particle and polymer sizing by simultaneous multiple-angle dynamic and static light scattering.

Well-constructed instruments may continue to perform beyond their manufacturer-supported service lifetime, which is typically limited by computer operating system compatibility or the availability of spare parts. Often, such equipment is condemned to surplus and destroyed. End-of-life plans that retain some of the material and energy used to create scientific instruments are of interest, just as in other manufacturing sectors.

Factors Influencing Practice Decisions Among Plastic Surgery Residents and Early-Career Plastic Surgeons in Canada.

Trends within the Canadian plastic surgery workforce demonstrated that most work in academic or medium-large community practice. Recent studies observed more plastic surgeons are incorporating aesthetics into their practice. This study aims to identify factors influencing how plastic surgery residents and early-career plastic surgeons in Canada choose their eventual practice with respect to practice type and practice location.