Validation of Use of Flipped Classroom for Surgery Core Clerkships.

Background: The flipped classroom (FC) is an integrated learning paradigm that equips students with self-directed study materials before scheduled meeting times allowing for the deeper application of acquired knowledge with an instructor. There is limited data on the application of FC to clinical undergraduate medical education and particularly as it applies to a surgical clerkship.

Methods: This study is a four-year retrospective study that includes two cohorts of students who matriculated through two training paradigms, traditional classroom (TC) and FC.

Adenoma Detection Rate in Colonoscopy: Does the Participation of a Resident Matter?

Presently, endoscopic procedures are a requirement for training competency for completion of a general surgery residency. There are no studies to date that have assessed whether having a resident perform a colonoscopy impacts quality indicators such as adenoma detection rate (ADR). To retrospectively review ADR in adult patients, who undergo screening colonoscopy at a single institution with (ColFacR) and without (ColFac) the participation of a general surgery resident.

Laparoscopic colectomy for Crohn's colitis. A large prospective comparative study.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to compare short-term outcomes of laparoscopic (LC) vs open colectomy (OC) in patients with Crohn's colitis.

Materials And Methods: We collected data on all patients undergoing colectomy for primary or recurrent Crohn's disease confined to the colon from July 2002 to August 2008. Patient and disease-specific characteristics and perioperative and short-term postoperative outcomes were prospectively collected and analyzed.

Cardiovascular health disparities: a systematic review of health care interventions.

Racial and ethnic disparities in cardiovascular health care are well documented. Promising approaches to disparity reduction are increasingly described in literature published since 1995, but reports are fragmented by risk, condition, population, and setting. The authors conducted a systematic review of clinically oriented studies in communities of color that addressed hypertension, hyperlipidemia, physical inactivity, tobacco, and two major cardiovascular conditions, coronary artery disease and heart failure.