Capability of multimodal large language models to interpret pediatric radiological images.

Background: There is a dearth of artificial intelligence (AI) development and research dedicated to pediatric radiology. The newest iterations of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can process image and video input in addition to text. They are thus theoretically capable of providing impressions of input radiological images.

Defining Their Own Success: Scholars' Views After a Faculty Development Program.

Objective: Educator roles in medicine are expanding yet career paths and definitions of successful careers are not uniformly agreed upon. Educator success from their own perspective has not been broadly explored as these studies usually occur from the institutional or organizational viewpoint. This study examined the impact of a national educational faculty development program (FDP) for academic pediatricians on educators' self-description of their own professional and personal success.

An Annotated Bibliography of Key Studies in Medical Education in 2020: Applying the Current Literature to Educational Practice and Scholarship.

Pediatric medical educators, with their multitude of responsibilities, may have difficulty staying abreast with both medical education and specialty specific medical literature. The body of medical literature is growing at an exponential rate. This annotated bibliography serves as a summary of highlighted medical education literature in the year 2020.

An Annotated Bibliography of Key Studies in Medical Education in 2019: Applying the Current Literature to Educational Practice and Scholarship.

Pediatric medical educators have the dual challenge of remaining up-to-date in the field of pediatrics and in the field of medical education. Due to the volume of information published in these 2 fields it can be nearly impossible to remain current in both fields of practice. To facilitate interpretation of the most recent medical education research, the authors conducted an annotated bibliography of medical education literature published in 2019.

An Annotated Bibliography of Key Studies in Medical Education in 2018: Applying the Current Literature to Pediatric Educational Practice and Scholarship.

Pediatric educators desire to and should strive to incorporate current educational methods and ideas into their professional practices. The overwhelming volume of medical education literature makes this difficult. This article provides an overview of 18 key articles from the 2018 literature that the authors considered impactful for the field of pediatric medical education.

Top Medical Education Studies of 2016: A Narrative Review.

Education, like clinical medicine, should be based on the most current evidence in the field. Unfortunately, medical educators can be overwhelmed by the sheer volume and range of resources for this literature. This article provides an overview of 15 articles from 2016 that the authors consider the top articles in the field of pediatric medical education.

Evaluation of a Speed Mentoring Program: Achievement of Short-Term Mentee Goals and Potential for Longer-Term Relationships.

Objective: Speed mentoring provides brief mentoring and networking opportunities. We evaluated 1) a national speed mentoring program's ability to encourage in-person networking and advice-sharing, and 2) 2 potential outcomes: helping mentees achieve 3-month goals, and fostering mentoring relationships after the program.

Methods: An outcome approach logic model guided our program evaluation.

Diagnostic errors in primary care: lessons learned.

Background: Diagnostic errors occur more commonly than other kinds of errors, they are more likely to harm patients, and they are more likely to be preventable. Little is known about the presenting complaints, initial (incorrect) diagnoses, and physicians' personal lessons learned related to diagnostic errors.

Methods: In 2009 and 2010, we invited a random sample of 200 family physicians, 200 general internists, and 200 general pediatricians practicing in Iowa to describe an important diagnostic error using a 1-page, mailed questionnaire.

An evaluation of pediatric residency education in conveying immunization knowledge.

Background: The Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education now requires all pediatric residency training programs assess medical knowledge competency.

Purpose: The goal of this project was to determine whether pediatric residency training using patient-based/experiential teaching made residents competent in the area of immunization knowledge or whether additional teaching strategies might need to be developed.

Methods: Cross-sectional and longitudinal study designs were used to determine improvement in immunization knowledge on a multiple-choice quiz over the 3 years of residency training.

Formative evaluation of a pediatric digital library's educational content and comparison to national curricular standards.

Background: U.S. medical education has undergone numerous regulatory changes; to maintain educational consistency and quality, these changes must be met with innovative educational methods.

Delivering biodefense continuing education to military medical providers by allowing a biodefense educational curriculum to unfold in practice.

A challenge today is how to deliver initial and continuing education on biodefense to military medical providers in a manner that can be integrated into their workflow and lifestyle. A summative evaluation of a prototypical biodefense digital library (BDL) and learning collaboratory was performed. The BDL posted daily links to biodefense news stories from January 2004 to December 2005.

Initial experiences in radiology e-learning.

The use of two different educator-centric learning management systems (LMSs), Moodle and Manila, for radiology e-learning was formatively evaluated and the implications of the future use of LMSs in radiology education were explored. NeuroRAD, a neuroradiologic digital library and learning community, is implemented with Moodle, one of the most popular open-source educator-centric LMSs. Pediatric-Education.

Promoting health and improving health care in a cost-effective manner through a military digital library.

Objective: The Virtual Naval Hospital (VNH) is a digital library designed to meet the information needs of U.S. Navy medical professionals.

The Virtual Naval Hospital: the digital library as knowledge management tool for nomadic patrons.

Objective: To meet the information needs of isolated primary care providers and their patients in the US Navy, a digital health sciences library, the Virtual Naval Hospital, was created through a unique partnership between academia and government.

Methods: The creation of the digital library was heavily influenced by the principles of user-centered design and made allowances for the nomadic nature of the digital library's patrons and the heterogeneous access they have to Internet bandwidth.

Results: The result is a digital library that has been in operation since 1997, continues to expand in size, is heavily used, and is highly regarded by its patrons.

A randomized controlled trial of an information prescription for pediatric patient education on the Internet.

Background: Information prescriptions (IPs) are prescriptions of specific, evidence-based information to manage health problems.

Objective: To determine whether a pediatrician-provided IP would change parents' attitudes/behaviors about using Internet health information resources.

Design, Setting, And Participants: We conducted a randomized controlled trial of parents visiting an academic general pediatric practice.

A pediatric digital storytelling system for third year medical students: the virtual pediatric patients.

Background: Computer-based patient simulations (CBPS) are common, effective, instructional methods for medical students, but have limitations. The goal of this project was to describe the development of a CBPS designed to overcome some of these limitations and to perform an online evaluation.

Methods: In 1996, patients and families experiencing a common pediatric problem were interviewed, photographed and a chart review completed.

The child's voice: understanding the contexts of children and families today.

Children and families live and grow in a different social context than 15 years ago. The purpose of this report was to explore contemporary themes for improved contextual understanding of children and families today and their relationship to providing optimal pediatric dental care. Twelve themes were discussed using research studies and clinical expertise from the viewpoints of a pediatric psychologist and pediatrician.

An analysis of patient care questions asked by pediatricians at an academic medical center.

Background: General pediatricians' information needs are not presently well characterized in the literature.

Objective: To characterize the patient care information needs of academic medical center pediatricians by collecting and classifying questions generated in clinical settings, allowing pediatric educators and authors to more effectively meet the needs of pediatricians.

Methods: A semistructured telephone survey of pediatric residents and faculty at a midwestern US academic medical center over two 6-month periods.

An evaluation of information-seeking behaviors of general pediatricians.

Objective: Usage of computer resources at the point of care has a positive effect on physician decision making. Pediatricians' information-seeking behaviors are not well characterized. The goal of this study was to characterize quantitatively the information-seeking behaviors of general pediatricians and specifically compare their use of computers, including digital libraries, before and after an educational intervention.

Reading level of privacy policies on Internet health Web sites.

Objective: Most individuals would like to maintain the privacy of their medical information on the World Wide Web (WWW). In response, commercial interests and other sites post privacy policies that are designed to inform users of how their information will be used. However, it is not known if these statements are comprehensible to most WWW users.

Pediatric jeopardy may increase residents' medical reading.

Objective: To describe the implementation of a monthly pediatric jeopardy educational intervention (pediatric jeopardy) designed to increase resident reading.

Methods: Pediatric jeopardy, based on the game show JEOPARDY!, was implemented in a pediatric residency training program in September 1997. The questions were derived from the current issues of Pediatrics in Review, Pediatrics, and Pediatrics Review and Education Program.