Student-led curricular approaches in medical education: the educational effects of a virtual fundamentals of COVID-19 course.

Background: As the field of education was adapting to virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, a need quickly emerged for a course to prepare medical students for future clinical practice. This call to action was answered by creating an innovative Fundamentals of COVID-19 course at the Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM). As a group of medical student leaders at IUSM, we developed this online course in order to support our fellow students and the community.

The Tibial Tug Test: An Intraoperative Test to Assess Tibial Fixation During Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction.

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is commonly injured, especially in athletes performing twisting and pivoting motions. ACL reconstruction is a standard procedure; however, there is no way to intraoperatively assess one of the causes of failure: the lack of adequate graft fixation on the tibial side. Different fixation devices can be used to ensure fixation, but there is as yet no consensus on which is the most effective.

Test-retest reliability, repeatability, and sensitivity of an automated deformation-controlled indentation on pressure pain threshold measurement.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to construct a computerized deformation-controlled indentation system and compare its test-retest reliability, repeatability, and sensitivity with a manual algometer for pressure pain threshold (PPT) measurements.

Methods: Pressure pain threshold measurements were made on 16 healthy subjects for 2 sessions on bilateral erector spinae muscles at L1, L3, and L5 spinal levels, consisting of 5 repeated trials each using computerized algometry on one side and manual algometry on the other side. Mean, SD, coefficient of variation, standard error of measurement, minimal detectable change, and intraclass correlation coefficient were calculated for both manual and computerized PPT measurements.