Overlapping worlds of art and plastic surgery: developing a concept model and its implications in surgical education.

Purpose: Editorials speculate on the relationship between art and plastic surgery, and studies of limited art education in surgical training show intriguing benefits. Identifying the shared concepts and skills in art and plastic surgery could advance incorporating artistic skills and concepts into plastic surgery training and curriculum.

Methods: Using a grounded theory approach, we interviewed plastic surgeons and formally trained or self-identified artists and then analyzed the transcripts.

Safer at school early alert: an observational study of wastewater and surface monitoring to detect COVID-19 in elementary schools.

Background: Schools are high-risk settings for SARS-CoV-2 transmission, but necessary for children's educational and social-emotional wellbeing. Previous research suggests that wastewater monitoring can detect SARS-CoV-2 infections in controlled residential settings with high levels of accuracy. However, its effective accuracy, cost, and feasibility in non-residential community settings is unknown.

"It's hard for everyone" systemic barriers to home confinement to prevent community spread of COVID-19.

Rapid identification and isolation/quarantine of COVID-19 cases or close contacts, respectively, is a vital tool to support safe, in-person learning. However, safe isolation or quarantine for a young child also necessitates home confinement for at least one adult caregiver, as well as rapid learning material development by the teacher to minimize learning loss. The purpose of this study is to better understand barriers and supports to student home confinement.

Wastewater and surface monitoring to detect COVID-19 in elementary school settings: The Safer at School Early Alert project.

Background: Schools are high-risk settings for SARS-CoV-2 transmission, but necessary for children's educational and social-emotional wellbeing. Previous research suggests that wastewater monitoring can detect SARS-CoV-2 infections in controlled residential settings with high levels of accuracy. However, its effective accuracy, cost, and feasibility in non-residential community settings is unknown.