Developing Telemedicine Curriculum Competencies for Graduate Medical Education: Outcomes of a Modified Delphi Process.

Purpose: Telemedical applications have only recently begun to coalesce into the field of telemedicine due to varying definitions of telemedicine and issues around reimbursement. This process has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing expansion of telemedicine delivery. This article demonstrates the development of a set of proposed competencies for a telemedicine curriculum in graduate medical education.

Healthcare in the Age of COVID-19: A Midwestern Catholic Health System's Innovative and Technology-Forward Approach to Life-Saving Care.

After the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 was declared a pandemic in mid-March, it challenged healthcare systems to provide care while mitigating the risk to both patients and staff. The high transmissibility of the virus combined with PPE shortages made this an even more difficult task. A Catholic health system in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, embraced healthcare technology in order to bridge the gap between providing patient care, exposure to the virus, and lack of PPE.

Doxycycline-induced pancreatitis: a rare finding.

Background: Drug-induced pancreatitis (DIP) is a rare problem in medicine. A retrospective study from 45 German centers of gastroenterology concluded that only 22 of 1613 (1.4 percent) cases of acute pancreatitis in 1993 were DIP.