Gender Differences in Self-Assessment Among Clerkship Medical Students Despite Equivalent Academic and Clinical Performance.

Objective: The authors aimed to determine if medical students' self-assessment of abilities and performance differed by gender during the psychiatry clerkship and if these differences were reflected objectively in test scores or clinical evaluations from educators.

Methods: Data from mid-clerkship self-assessments completed during the psychiatry core clerkship were reviewed from two classes of medical students. Students rated their performance on 14 items across five domains: knowledge/clinical reasoning, differential diagnosis, data presentation, studying skills, and teamwork as "below," "at," or "above expected level.

Vasopressin in preeclampsia: a novel very early human pregnancy biomarker and clinically relevant mouse model.

Preeclampsia, a cardiovascular disorder of late pregnancy, is characterized as a low-renin hypertensive state relative to normotensive pregnancy. Because other nonpregnant low-renin hypertensive disorders often exhibit and are occasionally dependent on elevated arginine vasopressin (AVP) secretion, we hypothesized a possible use for plasma AVP measurements in the prediction of preeclampsia. Copeptin is an inert prosegment of AVP that is secreted in a 1:1 molar ratio and exhibits a substantially longer biological half-life compared with AVP, rendering it a clinically useful biomarker of AVP secretion.