Medical Student Burnout as Impacted by Trait Emotional Intelligence - Moderated by Three-Year and Four-Year Medical Degree Programs and Gender.

Introduction: Medical student burnout has received increasing attention in recent years due to greater acceptance of psychological and emotional vulnerability in the health care profession. Given the significant investment of personal and financial resources in this demanding profession, continued evaluation of factors contributing to burnout in medical training is necessary. A midwestern medical college with a longstanding 4-year medical degree program created 2 regional campuses that utilize a calendar-efficient 3-year medical degree program.

Using a classic paper by I. E. Lawton and N. B. Schwartz to consider the array of factors that control luteinizing hormone production.

Two significant benefits derived from reading and discussing classic scientific papers in undergraduate biology courses are 1) providing students with the realistic perspective that science is an ongoing process (rather than a set of inarguable facts) and 2) deepening the students' understanding of physiological processes. A classic paper that is useful in both of these regards is by I. E.

Teaching aldosterone regulation and basic scientific principles using a classic paper by Dr. James O. Davis and colleagues.

Classroom discussion of scientific articles can be an effective means of teaching scientific principles and methodology to both undergraduate and graduate science students. The availability of classic papers from the American Physiological Society Legacy Project has made it possible to access articles dating back to the early portions of the 20th century. In this article, we discuss a classic paper from the laboratory of Dr.

Endothelium-derived steroidogenic factor enhances angiotensin II-stimulated aldosterone release by bovine zona glomerulosa cells.

Endothelium-derived steroidogenic factor (EDSF) is an endothelial peptide that stimulates aldosterone release from bovine adrenal zona glomerulosa (ZG) cells. The regulation of aldosterone release by combinations of EDSF and angiotensin II (AII) or EDSF and ACTH was investigated. Endothelial cells (ECs) and EC-conditioned media (ECCM) increased aldosterone release from ZG cells, an activity attributed to EDSF.

Measurement of steroid synthesis in zona glomerulosa cells by liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry: inhibition by nitric oxide.

A liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry method was developed to simultaneously determine the concentrations of aldosterone, corticosterone, cortisol, deoxycorticosterone, pregnenolone, and progesterone in bovine adrenal zona glomerulosa (ZG) cells. Steroids were extracted by liquid-liquid extraction, separated on a reverse-phase C18 column, ionized by electrospray, and detected by single-quadrupole mass spectrometry in a positive ion mode. All steroids formed sodium adducts at high abundance.