Publications by authors named "Adelaide H McClintock"

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  • The outpatient continuity clinic is vital for internal medicine residency training, and the Primary Care Exception Rule (PCER) allows indirect supervision of residents during less complex patient visits.
  • The existing literature on the effects of the PCER is limited, yet it raises questions about its impact on patients, residents, attending physicians, and health systems.
  • Recommendations include avoiding PCER for critical diagnosis situations, advocating for competency-based supervision, and expanding the PCER to cover moderate-complexity visits, along with a call for further research in this area.
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Purpose: Educational impact is dependent on student engagement. Assessment design can provide a scaffold for student engagement to determine the focus of student efforts. Little is known about how medical students engage with assessment.

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Graduate medical education (GME), the period of specialty and subspecialty training following attainment of a medical degree, is the final step in a continuum of medical education culminating in independent physician practice. This manuscript uses the metaphor "our house" to describe all aspects of the GME environment in which health care professionals and trainees learn and work. Our house's inhabitants have unequivocally stated that our house is in a state of disrepair.

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Background: A set of core competencies in sex- and gender-based women's health (SGWH) has been endorsed by the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), but many residencies lack the resources to implement curricula and clinical assessments that would support achievement of these competencies.

Aim: Develop entrustable professional activities (EPA) to support implementation and assessment of clinical care for SGIM's SGWH Core Competencies.

Program Description: Members of SGIM's SGWH Education Interest Group developed 18 SGWH EPAs for internal medicine residents.

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Background: Decreased mammography drives breast cancer disparities. Black women have lower rates of mammography completion than White women, and this contributes to disparities in outcomes. Points of disparity along the continuum for screening mammography remain underresearched.

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Purpose: Psychological safety (PS) is the belief that the environment is safe for risk taking. Available data point to a lack of PS in medical education. Based on literature in other fields, PS in clinical learning environments (CLEs) could support trainee well-being, belonging, and learning.

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Women's health care has evolved significantly since it was first acknowledged as an integral part of internal medicine training more than two decades ago. To update and clarify core competencies in sex- and gender-based women's health for general internists, the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) Women and Medicine Commission prepared the following Position Paper, approved by the SGIM council in 2023. Competencies were developed using several sources, including the 2021 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Program Requirements for Internal Medicine and the 2023 American Board of Internal Medicine Certification Examination Blueprint.

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Purpose: Psychological safety is the perception that a group environment is safe for interpersonal risk taking, exposing vulnerability, and contributing perspectives without fear of negative consequences. The presence of psychological safety has been tied to wellness, retention, and inclusiveness. National data demonstrate that many of the fundamental components of psychological safety are lacking in clinical learning environments.

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Psychological safety is the perception that an environment is safe for interpersonal risk taking, exposing vulnerability, and contributing perspectives without fear of being shamed, blamed, or ignored. The presence of psychological safety has been associated with improved team learning and innovation, leader inclusivity, and team members' sense of belonging. In medical education, psychological safety has additional benefits: it allows learners to be present in the moment and to focus on the tasks at hand, and reduces trainee focus on image.

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Background: Primary care training should include competencies to provide reproductive health services. In the United Sates, primary care is often provided by general internal medicine physicians. Longitudinal training experiences for internal medicine residents in women's health increase knowledge, skills and retention in careers in women's health, but very little literature describes their implementation.

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Objective: To perform a retrospective review of the clinical characteristics, microbiological data, and clinical outcomes in patients with granulomatous mastitis (GM) who were treated at our institution with a unique strategy of prolonged antibiotic therapy as the primary treatment modality.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective case series was performed on patients (n = 42) with GM seen at the breast specialty clinic of our institution between the years 2004 and 2014. Patients were primarily treated with lipophilic antibiotics, and steroids and surgery were reserved for refractory cases.

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Cognitive bias permeates almost every learner assessment in medical education. Assessment bias has the potential to affect a learner's education, future career and sense of self-worth. Decades of data show that there is little educators can do to overcome bias in learner assessments.

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Reproductive justice is the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and to parent children in safe and sustainable communities. Historically, marginalized individuals have experienced reproductive oppression in multiple forms. This oppression continues in modern times through health policy and patient-clinician communication.

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Breast cancer-screening guidelines increasingly recommend that clinicians perform a risk assessment for breast cancer to inform shared decision making for screening. Precision medicine is quickly becoming the preferred approach to cancer screening, with the aim of increased surveillance in high-risk women, while sparing lower-risk women the burden of unnecessary imaging. Risk assessment also informs clinical care by refining screening recommendations for younger women, identifying women who should be referred to genetic counseling, and identifying candidates for risk-reducing medications.

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Introduction: The aim of this study is to describe factors associated with noncompletion of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) therapy.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of adults who initiated LTBI treatment with isoniazid, rifampin, or isoniazid-rifapentine at 5 clinics. Demographic, treatment, and monitoring characteristics were abstracted.

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Background: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended a new regimen for treatment of latent tuberculosis (three months of weekly isoniazid and rifapentine) in late 2011.

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