Purpose: To inform research on developing or adopting leadership competency frameworks for use in U.S. undergraduate medical education (UME), this scoping review describes the content of U.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: Many women in the US, particularly those living in rural areas, have limited access to obstetric care. Military-civilian partnership could improve access to obstetric care and benefit military personnel, their civilian dependents, and the civilian population as a whole.
Objective: To identify medical facilities within military and civilian geographic areas that present opportunities for military-civilian partnership in obstetric care and to assess whether civilian use of military medical treatment facilities (MTFs) could improve access to emergency cesarean delivery care in the US.
Shoulder pain is a common and painful patient condition. Unfortunately, diagnostic imaging of shoulder pain in the emergency department (ED) is often limited to radiography. While diagnostic for fractures and dislocations, drawbacks of radiography include time delays and non-diagnostic imaging in the case of rotator cuff pathology.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Emergency department (ED) utilization represents an expensive and growing means of accessing care for a variety of conditions. Prior studies have characterized ED utilization in the general population. We aim to identify the clinical conditions that drive ED utilization in a universally insured population and the impacts of care setting on ED use and admissions in the U.
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