Research Initiative Supporting Excellence at the University of Cincinnati (RISE-UC): A Program to Develop and Support Research-Active Faculty Members.

A combination of forces have markedly increased challenges to research-active faculty achieving sustained success. This article describes how one department at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (UCCOM) implemented a strategic plan, the Research Initiative Supporting Excellence at the University of Cincinnati (RISE-UC), to promote the research activity of its research-active faculty, fiscal year (FY) 2011-FY 2021. RISE-UC was implemented and regularly updated to address evolving needs.

A multiple choice testing program coupled with a year-long elective experience is associated with improved performance on the internal medicine in-training examination.

Background: The Internal Medicine In-Training Exam (IM-ITE) assesses the content knowledge of internal medicine trainees. Many programs use the IM-ITE to counsel residents, to create individual remediation plans, and to make fundamental programmatic and curricular modifications.

Objective: To assess the association between a multiple-choice testing program administered during 12 consecutive months of ambulatory and inpatient elective experience and IM-ITE percentile scores in third post-graduate year (PGY-3) categorical residents.

Admission chest radiograph lacks sensitivity in the diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia.

Introduction: : The clinical and epidemiological significance of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) with a chest radiograph demonstrating no parenchymal infiltrate has not been studied. We determined the percentage of patients with a clinical diagnosis of CAP who did not have radiographic opacifications and compared this group with patients with CAP and radiographic infiltrates.

Methods: : Patients admitted with a diagnosis of CAP were identified.

The ambulatory long-block: an accreditation council for graduate medical education (ACGME) educational innovations project (EIP).

Introduction: Historical bias toward service-oriented inpatient graduate medical education experiences has hindered both resident education and care of patients in the ambulatory setting.

Aim: Describe and evaluate a residency redesign intended to improve the ambulatory experience for residents and patients.

Setting: Categorical Internal Medicine resident ambulatory practice at the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center.

[Emotional dysfunction hypothesis in adolescent with problem behaviour: an exploratory study].

Introduction: Problem behaviour in adolescents today has become a real public health problem, because of the potentially heavy consequences on their mental integrity. Although a number of studies have pointed out the importance of emotional functioning in this phenomenon, its characteristics have not been clearly defined. In the field of pathological emotional functioning, the aim of the study was to explore the differences in emotion variables, verbal emotion expression ability and behaviour, and notably behaviour inhibition ability.