Impacts of climate change on food security and resulting perinatal health impacts.

Climate change's impact on global food security is a pressing concern with profound consequences. Climate change disrupts the global food system through a number of mechanisms including extreme weather events, rising food prices, and compromised food quality. In this article, we explore the effect of climate change on food security and the resulting health impacts of poor nutrition on pregnant women and infants in the perinatal period.

Evolving narratives on signal functions for monitoring maternal and newborn health services: A meta-narrative inspired review.

Emergency obstetric care (EmOC) signal functions are a shortlist of key clinical interventions capable of averting deaths from the five main direct causes of maternal mortality; they have been used since 1997 as a part of an EmOC monitoring framework to track the availability of EmOC services in low- and middle-income settings. Their widespread use and proposed adaptation to include other types of care, such as care for newborns, is testimony to their legacy as part of the measurement architecture within reproductive health. Yet, much has changed in the landscape of maternal and newborn health (MNH) since the initial introduction of EmOC signal functions.

The Supply of Surgical Specialists and Subspecialists to the U.S. Medicare Population: National Trends from 2013 to 2019.

Purpose: The U.S. population is rapidly aging.

Human Trafficking Education: A Pilot Study of Integration into Medical School Curriculum.

Objectives: Few medical schools incorporate formal education on human trafficking (HT) and sex trafficking (ST) into their curriculum. Our objective was to develop, implement, and evaluate education on HT and ST in the first-year medical student curriculum.

Methods: The curriculum included a standardized patient (SP) experience and lecture.

Gender differences in academic productivity, educational positions, and leadership appointments of physicians in the U.S.

Background: Promotions in academic medicine are frequently based on number of publications and leadership positions held. While prior study has established women publish less than men, many evaluations are limited to individual specialties and do not evaluate involvement with educational activities.

Objective: To compare gender differences in academic output, intramural leadership positions, and educational leadership positions of academic physicians.

Characteristics and Perspectives of Human Trafficking Education: A Survey of U.S. Medical School Administrators and Students.

To assess the timing, duration, methodology, and content of human trafficking (HT) curricula in U.S. medical schools.

Supply of obstetrician-gynecologists and gynecologic oncologists to the US Medicare population: a state-by-state analysis.

Background: The supply of obstetrician-gynecologists and gynecologic oncologists across the United States has been described. However, these studies focused on reproductive-age patients and did not assess the growing demand for services to the advanced-age female population.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the supply of obstetrician-gynecologists and gynecologic oncologists who serve the US Medicare population per 100,000 female Medicare beneficiaries, over time and by state and region.

Sex and Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Accredited Obstetrics and Gynecology Specialty and Subspecialty Training in the United States.

Objective: To compare trends in racial and gender diversity in Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBGYN) residency and fellowship programs from beginning of program accreditation in 2012 to the most recently published report for 2018.

Design: Data was abstracted in August 2020 from publicly available reports on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) website. Reports from 2012 to 2018 were compared with Chi-square tests and the Cochran-Armitage trend test assessed trends over time.

Current Parental Leave Policies for Medical Students at U.S. Medical Schools: A Comparative Study.

Purpose: Parental leave for new parents is essential as they adjust to the physical and psychological changes that accompany childbirth and caring for a newborn. This study sought to determine the current state of parental leave policies for medical students at medical schools in the United States.

Method: From November to December 2019, 2 researchers independently reviewed the websites of 199 U.

A Primary Care Clerkship during the COVID-19 Pandemic, An Educator and Learners' Perspective on Telemedicine, The New Frontier of Clinical education.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the educational experience within medical education.

Review of Published Curriculum on Sex Trafficking for Undergraduate Medical Trainees.

Educational councils and medical societies recommend that medical students learn to recognize and care for victims of sex trafficking. Previous research has found that healthcare providers are one of the few professionals to interact with sex trafficking victims during exploitation. This review evaluates currently published curricular and extracurricular U.

Washington State abdominal aortic aneurysm-related mortality shows a steady decline between 1996 and 2016.

Objective: Management of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) has undergone considerable advances over the last two decades. Our aim was to evaluate AAA-related mortality trends in Washington State over a 21-year period and to assess variation in AAA-related mortality by sex, race, and county over the same time period. We hypothesized that a significant decrease in AAA-related mortality in Washington State would be noted.