The race that never slows: Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery residency applicant parameters over time.

Background: There has been an increasing number of Canadian medical graduates who have gone unmatched in the residency selection process. Medical students have been engaging in extracurricular activities outside the formal curriculum which may help to distinguish themselves from their peers in the selection process. To understand how competitiveness in residency selection shapes applicant demographic characteristics and behaviours, this study set out to explore the demographic characteristics and prevalence of reported extra-curricular activities by applicants to Canadian Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery (OTL-HNS) residency across time.

Review of MIS-C Clinical Protocols and Diagnostic Pathways: Towards a Consensus Algorithm.

Background: The emergence of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) during the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 pandemic led to the development of institutional clinical pathways based on expert opinion. We assessed North American paediatric centres' adaptation to MIS-C and analysed the degree of agreement between algorithms on tiered clinical investigations.

Methods: This study evaluated MIS-C diagnostic algorithms from 50 tertiary centres developed between May 2020 and December 2021 in the United States and Canada obtained online and through colleagues in various institutions.

Daily outpatient intravenous antibiotic therapy for the management of paediatric periorbital cellulitis, a retrospective case series.

Objective: To evaluate whether outpatient treatment of periorbital cellulitis with daily administration of intravenous antibiotics and physician evaluation is an effective and safe alternative to admission.

Design: A retrospective chart review study of paediatric patients treated on an outpatient basis for periorbital cellulitis at a tertiary children's hospital between 2013 and 2015 was performed. Children were assessed day by a paediatrician to monitor for resolution of symptoms or complications.

Short- and long-term management of cases of venom-induced anaphylaxis is suboptimal.

Background: Venom-induced anaphylaxis (VIA) accounts for severe reactions. However, little is known about the short- and long-term management of VIA patients.

Objective: To assess the short- and long-term management of VIA.

Development, psychometric properties and preliminary clinical validation of a brief, session-by-session measure of eating disorder cognitions and behaviors: The ED-15.

Objective: In the treatment research literature on other psychological disorders, there is a move towards session-by-session symptom measurement. The necessary measures need to be brief, focused on core features since the last session, and readily available to clinicians. There is no measure in the eating disorders that meets those criteria.

Patients' experiences of clinicians' crying during psychotherapy for eating disorders.

Many psychotherapists have cried in a therapy session. Those clinicians who do cry see it as likely to have a positive impact on the therapy or to have no impact, and therapist personality characteristics have not shown reliable associations to crying in therapy. However, it is not known how patients experience therapists' crying, or whether the patient's view of the therapist's characteristics is related to that experience.