Impact of Mentoring for Underrepresented Groups in Undergraduate Medical Education: A Systematic Review.

Objectives: Despite efforts to mitigate challenges to advance underrepresented groups (URG) groups' representation in medical education, diversity remains underwhelming. In response to this several mentoring programs to increase diversification within medical education have been implemented. However, the impact of these programs on URG representation across disciplines is unknown.

Results from an expedited spinal nerve root block clinic at a UK tertiary neurosurgical centre.

Study Design: Retrospective Observational Study.

Introduction: Lumbar radicular pain has a prevalence of 3-5%. Level 1 evidence has demonstrated equivalence between surgical and injection treatment.

Extended-Duration Work Shifts in Surgical Specialties: A Systematic Review.

Introduction: There has been widespread international implementation of duration-hour restrictions to prevent surgical resident burnout and promote patient safety and wellbeing of doctors. A variety of Extended-Duration Work Shifts (EDWS) have been implemented, with a variety of studies examining the effect of shift systems on both surgical performance and the stress response unestablished in the literature.

Methods: This was a systematic review evaluating the impact of extended working hours on surgical performance, cognitive impairment, and physiological stress responses.

Preoperative priming results in improved operative performance with surgical trainees.

Background: Preoperative warm-up regimens are increasingly utilised in the surgical field, however no consensus on benefits of priming across surgical experience has been realised. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of simulation preoperative priming on operative performance across levels of resident experience.

Methods: A single-blinded randomised control trial was carried out in a regional surgical training centre.

Recording adverse events following orthopaedic trauma: Financial implications and validation of an adverse event assessment form in an Irish regional trauma unit.

Background: In Ireland, funding of orthopaedic trauma is based on an activity-based funding (ABF) model. Clinically similar cases are split into diagnostic-related groups (DRG), with base funding per DRG provided. Increased complexity of cases (length of stay; complications incurred; occurrence of adverse events) attracts additional remuneration to the base funding.