Publications by authors named "Alicia Schaffer"
Introduction: Presenting material in a manner that is most palatable to students is important to improve the learning process. We evaluated the efficacy of different teaching styles including the flipped classroom and assessed the learning style preferences of a cohort of medical learners in a preclinical obstetrics and gynecology course.
Methods: We conducted three teaching sessions with 35 physician assistant students.
Purpose: To determine greater than 2-year outcomes for combined lunate-capitate and triquetrum-hamate arthrodeses.
Methods: We identified 16 patients who underwent scaphoid excision and combined arthrodeses of the lunate-capitate and triquetrum-hamate joints (bicolumnar arthrodesis) from 2007 to 2010. Eleven patients returned for follow-up evaluation, which included measurement of operative and contralateral control wrist flexion, extension, and grip strength, and completion of a patient-reported outcomes questionnaire, visual analog scale pain assessment, and Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand questionnaire.
Purpose: To determine the effect of patient insurance status on access to outpatient orthopedic care for acute flexor tendon lacerations.
Methods: The research team contacted 100 randomly chosen orthopedic surgery practices in North Carolina by phone on 2 different occasions separated by 3 weeks. The research team attempted to obtain an appointment for a fictitious 28-year-old man with an acute flexor tendon laceration.