The role of arts-based curricula in professional identity formation: results of a qualitative analysis of learner's written reflections.

Background: Professional identity formation is an important aspect of medical education that can be difficult to translate into formal curricula. The role of arts and humanities programs in fostering professional identity formation remains understudied. Analyzing learners' written reflections, we explore the relationship between an arts-based course and themes of professional identity formation.

Clinical Relevance and Considerations of Palliative Care in Older Adults.

The incorporation of palliative care to address the needs of the older adult is a vital part of emergency medicine. Recognizing the trajectory of chronic diseases in older adults and the myriad of medical diseases amenable to palliative care is paramount. Early involvement of palliative care should be considered the cornerstone to overarching management of the older adult presenting to the emergency department.

Randomized Trial of 42-Day Compared with 9-Day Courses of Dexamethasone for the Treatment of Evolving Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Extremely Preterm Infants.

Objective: To compare pulmonary and neurodevelopmental outcomes in extremely preterm infants with evolving bronchopulmonary dysplasia treated with either a 42-day course of dexamethasone or 9-day course(s) of dexamethasone.

Study Design: This was a prospective, randomized study in 59 infants ≤27 weeks of gestation born between October 2006 and December 2010, who at day 10-21 of life had ventilatory support with mean airway pressure ≥8 cm HO and FiO ≥60%. Infants received dexamethasone 0.

The Weight of Pain: What Does a 10 on the Pain Scale Mean? An Innovative Use of Art in Medical Education to Enhance Pain Management.

Context: Art and museum spaces offer a novel educational platform for exploring the subjective elements inherent to the understanding and treatment of pain. Physicians and museum educators collaborated on an educational model using art to explore the metacognitive dimensions of pain management.

Objectives: Sessions used inquiry-based strategies to increase clinician awareness of implicit biases and build clinically applicable metacognitive skills that might influence how clinicians respond to patients in pain.

Measurements of recirculation during neonatal veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: clinical application of the ultrasound dilution technique.

Recirculation during dual lumen veno-venous (DLVV) extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a dynamic event that results in a fraction of the oxygenated blood exiting the arterial lumen and immediately shunting back into the venous lumen. Excessive recirculation will result in suboptimal oxygen delivery to the patient. Ultrasound dilution is a technology that has been shown to rapidly quantify recirculation in veno-venous (VV) ECMO animal models.