Managing Pediatric Hip Pain Patients with Precision.

Pediatric hip pain can have orthopedic, infectious, inflammatory, neoplastic, or nonmusculoskeletal etiologies. Organizing the differential diagnosis by symptom chronicity and a determination of intraarticular versus extraarticular pain, as well as the age at pain onset, can be helpful to hone in on the cause. Clinicians should consider plain radiographs in cases of acute trauma, with concern for bony pathology, or in patients with unexplained limp or hip pain, with musculoskeletal ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging used as advanced imaging when indicated.

Hip Pain in an Athlete.

Hip pain is a common complaint in sports, and narrowing the differential diagnosis can be difficult. Many etiologies are secondary to overuse and respond well to nonsurgical treatment. The increased use of point-of-care ultrasound has helped provide timely and accurate diagnoses and some guided treatments.

Running Gait Retraining: A Sports Medicine Training Gap in Family Medicine.

Background And Objectives: Emerging evidence suggests that running gait retraining plays an important role in the treatment and prevention of running-related injury, yet it remains unclear how gait retraining is being utilized by family physicians with their patients. By surveying family physicians and residents, this study is the first to investigate the frequency of gait retraining discussions with patients with running-related injuries, barriers to these discussions, and physician confidence and perceived value in engaging in these discussions, so as to better inform family physician training on this subject.

Methods: This study investigated family physician attitudes toward gait retraining though a cross-sectional survey administered to 532 military family physicians and residents at the 2019 Uniformed Services Academy of Family Physicians Annual Meeting.

The Impact of a Concussion Clinic on Family Medicine Resident Education.

Introduction: Given that primary care has been found to be the most likely point of entry into the health care system for concussion patients, diagnosis and management of concussions are vital to the education of family medicine physicians. Studies of primary care residencies reveal a self-perceived deficiency in sports medicine education. This project was designed to determine the effect of a concussion management clinic on family medicine residents' confidence in and personal value placed on diagnosing and managing concussions.

The Impact of Near-Peer Teaching on Medical Students' Transition to Clerkships.

Background And Objectives: The transition to clerkships is one of the most challenging times during medical school. To help students better cope, many schools have established transition-to-clerkship curricula. Such curricula may optimally prepare students through increasing their self-efficacy and response efficacy.