Integrating the social determinants of health into curriculum: AMEE Guide No. 162.

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) as the non-medical factors influencing health outcomes. SDOH is associated with conditions in which people are born, grow, work, and live. Medical schools and licensing bodies are increasingly recognizing the need for doctors and healthcare professionals to be aware of their patient's social context and how it impacts their states of health and disease.

Unmasking a New Type of Gastrointestinal Foreign Body in the COVID-19 Era.

The incidence of foreign body ingestion has increased during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. As face masks became increasingly available, we report a case of accidental ingestion of the metal strip insert of a surgical mask. After initially progressing, its progress halted after 24 hours.

Case report: Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS)-induced hemophagocytic disorder.

Hemophagocytic disorders are severe and life-threatening conditions that can be genetic in origin [i.e., primary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)] or result from infections (i.

Creating a student-led health magazine with an urban, multicultural, resource-restricted elementary school: Approach, process and impact.

Background: Health magazines effectively deliver health information. No data regarding student-led magazines to promote health exist.

Objective: To evaluate whether children's health knowledge, interests and lifestyle choices improve following distribution of a student-led health magazine.

A qualitative description of the development and evaluation of our voice, a health promotion magazine created by pediatric patients for hospitalized pediatric patients.

Objectives: To facilitate a peer-developed health promotion magazine that provides health education and engages hospitalized pediatric patients during a hospital admission. To evaluate patient satisfaction with the content and layout of the magazine and its impact on patients' attitudes toward healthy living.

Methods: A pediatric resident-led multidisciplinary team collaborated with the Children's Council at The Hospital for Sick Children to create a health promotion magazine for inpatients.

Delayed identification of pediatric abuse-related fractures.

Objectives: Because physicians may have difficulty distinguishing accidental fractures from those that are caused by abuse, abusive fractures may be at risk for delayed recognition; therefore, the primary objective of this study was to determine how frequently abusive fractures were missed by physicians during previous examinations. A secondary objective was to determine clinical predictors that are associated with unrecognized abuse.

Methods: Children who were younger than 3 years and presented to a large academic children's hospital from January 1993 to December 2007 and received a diagnosis of abusive fractures by a multidisciplinary child protective team were included in this retrospective review.

Residents as health advocates: The development, implementation and evaluation of a child advocacy initiative at the University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario).

Background And Objective: Advocacy is an integral part of a paediatrician's role. The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada has identified advocacy as one of the essential Canadian Medical Education Directives for Specialists competencies, and participation in child advocacy work as an important component of paediatric residency training. The objective of the present paper was to describe the development, implementation and evaluation of the first four years of the child advocacy initiative at the University of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario).