Publications by authors named "Joseph Chad Hoyle"
: A significant proportion of learning during residency takes place through informal channels. Spontaneous collaboration among medical learners significantly contributes to this informal learning and is increasingly recognized as a component of the hidden curriculum in medical education. Yet historically, a disproportionate emphasis in medical education has been placed on didactic, structured, and faculty-initiated methods, leaving an important force in medical education understudied and underutilized.
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- The study examines the psychometric properties of the Friedreich Ataxia Rating Scale (FARSn) and its updated version (mFARS) to assess their effectiveness and reliability.
- Using data from the FA-Clinical Outcome Measures cohort, the researchers performed correlation-based analyses to understand the relationships between different items and subscores of the scales.
- Findings suggest that both FARSn and mFARS are valid, with specific modifications in mFARS enhancing its precision by excluding less functional items, which is important for future studies and trials involving Friedreich Ataxia patients.