Scope of Practice and Location of 3- Versus 4-Year Family Medicine Residency Graduates.

Background And Objectives: The John Peter Smith (JPS) Family Medicine Residency Program participated in two national experiments: Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice (P4, 2007-2012) and the Length of Training Pilot, which began in 2013. In these experiments, JPS created optional integrated 4-year areas of emphasis (AOE). The objective of this study was to examine the career outcomes of JPS graduates differentiated by those who completed a 4-year AOE, versus traditional fourth-year fellowship, vs 3-year only.

CT-P13 subcutaneous infliximab in gastroenterology and rheumatology.

The drug infliximab has been a key milestone in the treatment of inflammatory conditions such as Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and the seronegative spondyloarthritides. Biosimilar drugs followed the originator, further improving access and diversity of therapy choice. Subcutaneous infliximab (CT-P13) holds potential for greater patient flexibility by self administration, reducing travel and hospital attendance for infusion, particularly relevant at a time of pandemic.

Early Career Outcomes of Family Medicine Residency Graduates Exposed to Innovative Flexible Longitudinal Tracks.

Background And Objectives: The Preparing the Personal Physician for Practice (P4) project used a case series design to study innovations in the content, length, structure, and location of residency training in 14 geographically diverse family medicine programs between 2007 and 2012. We aimed to explore how offering flexible longitudinal tracks (FLT) affected graduates' scope of practice, particularly in maternal child health (MCH), which included at least 17 months of focused training that increased each year over 4 years.

Methods: We administered a cross-sectional survey to graduates of P4 residencies approximately 18 months after they completed training (2011-2014) and compared graduates of the John Peter Smith (JPS) Family Medicine Residency MCH FLT to all other P4 graduates.

Correlation between self-reported resident duty hours and time-stamped parking data.

Background: Failure to comply with Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-mandated resident work hour limitations can result in citations and shortened accreditation cycles. Many programs assess compliance by collecting self-reports of work hours from each resident.

Objectives: To examine residents' self-reported assessment of work hours recorded on a daily basis using a Web-based product with electronically recorded times collected as residents entered and exited the parking garage.

Increase in plasmacytoid and myeloid dendritic cells by progenipoietin-1, a chimeric Flt-3 and G-CSF receptor agonist, in SIV-Infected rhesus macaques.

As in HIV-1 infection in humans, SIVsm infection of rhesus macaques causes a slow progressive loss of CD4 T-cells followed by the onset of AIDS. In addition, there is a loss of dendritic cells (DC) in peripheral blood, peripheral lymphoid tissues, and the skin. Increasing the number of CD4 T cells and DC may be an important step in restoring immune competence and thus delay disease progression.