Beyond the Clinic: Physician Assistant Student Perspectives on Careers in Physician Assistant Education.

Purpose: Professional training programs for physician assistants (PAs) have been rapidly expanding. The profession therefore needs to develop a sufficiently robust teaching workforce.

Methods: This study surveyed current PA students from all Physician Assistant Education Association member programs to ascertain their level of interest in and understanding of careers in PA education, including faculty and precepting roles.

Does diabetes double the risk of depression?

Purpose: In this study, we compared the rate of depression diagnoses in adults with and without diabetes mellitus, while carefully controlling for number of primary care visits.

Methods: We matched adults with incident diabetes (n = 2,932) or prevalent diabetes (n = 14,144) to nondiabetic control patients based on (1) age and sex, or (2) age, sex, and number of outpatient primary care visits. Logistic regression analysis was used to assess the association between various predictors and a diagnosis of depression in each diabetes cohort relative to matched nondiabetic control patients.

Cyclothymia and labile personality: is all folie circulaire?

Background: Historically, cyclothymia has been used broadly to refer either to a temperament (Kretschmer) or the entire range of bipolar disorders. Within this spectrum, it is uncertain whether it characterizes the "hard" (or manic-depressive) forms (as Kurt Schneider argued) or its "soft" expressions (bipolar II and highly recurrent depressions); the latter perspective is in line with Falret's view that the melancholic expressions of his folie circulaire (circular insanity) were highly prevalent in the community.

Methods: Eight hundred forty-three outpatients were interviewed with the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia without regard to hierarchical exclusionary rules.