Factors Impacting Scholarship Delay for Early Career URiM Faculty in Academic Medicine.

Background And Objectives: Academic advancement requires scholarship productivity. Faculty underrepresented in medicine (URiM) face unique challenges that hinder their scholarship productivity. We introduce the term "scholarship delay" as a phenomenon that affects early career academic faculty and describe what is known in the literature about this phenomenon among URiM faculty.

Evaluation After a First Seizure in Adults.

Seizures are transient signs and symptoms of abnormal, excessive, or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain. Up to 10% of adults have a seizure during their lifetime, with increasing incidence in people older than 55 years. One-third of people have a recurrent seizure within one year of an initial unprovoked seizure.