A Call to Action From the California Consortium for the Assessment of Clinical Competence: Making the Case for Regional Collaboration.

The discontinuation of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 2 Clinical Skills Examination emphasizes the need for other reliable standardized assessments of medical student clinical skills. For 30 years, the California Consortium for the Assessment of Clinical Competence (CCACC) has collaborated in the development of clinical skills assessments and has become a valuable resource for clinicians, standardized patient educators, psychometricians, and medical educators. There are many merits to strong multi-institutional partnerships, including the integration of data across multiple schools to provide feedback to both students and curricula, pooled test performance statistics for analysis and quality assurance, shared best practices and resources, individual professional development, and opportunities for research and scholarship.

Anatomic measures of upper airway structures in obstructive sleep apnea.

Objective: Determine if anatomic dimensions of airway structures are associated with airway obstruction in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients.

Methods: Twenty-eight subjects with ( = 14) and without ( = 14) OSA as determined by clinical symptoms and sleep studies; volunteer sample. Skeletal and soft tissue dimensions were measured from radiocephalometry and magnetic resonance imaging.

Three-dimensional analysis of zygomatic-maxillary complex fracture patterns.

Zygomatic-maxillary (ZMC) complex fractures are a common consequence of facial trauma. In this retrospective study, we present a novel method of ZMC fracture pattern analysis, utilizing three-dimensional visualization of computed tomography (CT) images to record displacement of the malar eminence in a three-dimensional coordinate plane. The pattern of fracture was then correlated with treatment outcome.