A student-driven mindfulness curriculum for first-year osteopathic medical students: a pilot study.

Context: Medical education is stressful and can adversely affect the health and well-being of students. Although mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have been successfully utilized in other settings, little is known about the use of student-led interventions in undergraduate medical education.

Objectives: The objectives of this study are to assess student satisfaction with four student-selected and student-led mindfulness activities incorporated into mandatory small-group sessions, the immediate impact of these activities on student stress levels, and student use of these activities outside the mindfulness sessions.

Improvements in Psychosocial Outcomes Following a Summer Camp for Youth with Bleeding Disorders and Their Siblings.

Purpose: Complications from bleeding episodes from hemophilia can interfere with children's lives and lead to negative psychosocial outcomes. The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether attitude toward illness, hope, perception of illness benefit and/or burden, and/or illness knowledge change for youth with bleeding disorders and their siblings following a five-day education and activity focused summer camp. We hypothesized that youth with bleeding disorders' attitude toward illness, hope, perception of illness benefit, and illness knowledge would improve after camp attendance, and perception of illness burden would decease after camp attendance.

Donor characteristics and intraoperative total nucleated cell count influence hematopoietic progenitor cell yield of healthy donor bone marrow grafts.

Background: Bone marrow graft cell content impacts engraftment potential after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (alloHCT). Surrogates, such as intraoperative total nucleated cell count (ioTNC), are of unclear utility in predicting final graft characteristics. In addition, demographic and clinical factors may influence graft cellular profile and recipient engraftment.