Describing the landscape of integrated clinical educational programs for PAs and NPs.

Purpose: Postgraduate clinical training (PCT) has been available to PAs since the 1970s and to NPs since at least 2007. Some programs now enroll PAs and NPs. Although this new training model appears to be expanding, little data about integrated PA/NP programs are available.

Population Genomics of New Zealand Pouched Lamprey (kanakana; piharau; Geotria australis).

Pouched lamprey (Geotria australis) or kanakana/piharau is a culturally and ecologically significant jawless fish that is distributed throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. Despite its importance, much remains unknown about historical relationships and gene flow between populations of this enigmatic species within New Zealand. To help inform management, we assembled a draft G.

The association between personalities, alternative breeding strategies and reproductive success in dunnocks.

Although consistent between-individual differences in behaviour (i.e. animal personality) are ubiquitous in natural populations, relatively few studies have examined how personalities influence the formation of social relationships.

Postbaccalaureate Premedicine Programs: A Path to Diversity in Physician Assistant Education.

The importance of diversity in the physician assistant (PA) profession is well understood. Some of the benefits of diversity include improved patient care and patient satisfaction. In recent times, efforts at increasing diversity in PA education have involved implementing a holistic admissions process and targeted recruitment of applicants who are underrepresented in medicine.

Ultrasound Evaluation of Soft-Tissue Foreign Bodies by US Army Medics.

Objective: The study's primary objective was to determine army medics' accuracy performing bedside ultrasound (US) to detect radiolucent foreign bodies (FBs) in a soft-tissue hand model. Secondary objectives included the assessment of US stand-off pad effects on soft-tissue FB detection rates and assess established FB detectable lower limit size of 2 mm.

Methods: Prospective, single blinded, observational study of US-naïve Army medics' abilities utilizing bedside US to detect wooden FBs in a chicken thigh model with or without an US stand-off pad.