Evaluating implicit gender bias at Canadian otolaryngology meetings through use of professional title.

Objectives: Increasing numbers of women enter medical school annually. The number of female physicians in leadership positions has been much slower to equalize. There are also well-documented differences in the treatment of women as compared to men in professional settings.

How do residents respond to uncertainty with peers and supervisors in multidisciplinary teams? Insights from simulations with epistemic fidelity.

Background: Residents struggle to express clinical uncertainty, often exhibiting negative cognitive, behavioral, and emotional responses to uncertainty when engaging with patients or supervisors. However, the Integrative Model of Uncertainty Tolerance posits that individuals may have positive or negative responses to perceived uncertainty. Situational characteristics, such as interactions with other health professionals, can impact whether the response is positive or negative.

Paediatric Sjögren's Syndrome With Bilateral Parotid Cysts: A Case Report.

Sjögren's syndrome is an autoimmune disease characterized by the destruction of exocrine glands. Clinically, this results in the loss of tear and saliva production. Although xerophthalmia and xerostomia, also known as sicca, is a common presentation among adults, paediatric patients more often present with recurrent parotitis and glandular enlargement.

Introducing medical students to deep learning through image labelling: a new approach to meet calls for greater artificial intelligence fluency among medical trainees.

Our approach addresses the urgent need for AI experience for the doctors of tomorrow. Through a medical education-focused approach to data labelling, we have fostered medical student competence in medical imaging and AI. We envision our framework being applied at other institutions and academic groups to develop robust labelling programs for research endeavours.

The impact of music, play, and pet therapies in managing pain and anxiety in paediatric patients in hospital: a rapid systematic review.

Background: Hospitalized children face pain and anxiety associated with the environment and procedures.

Objective: This review aimed to assess the impact of music, play, pet and art therapies on pain and anxiety in hospitalized paediatric patients. RCTs assessing the impact of music, play, pet, and/or art therapies on pain and/or anxiety in hospitalized paediatric patients were eligible.