Publications by authors named "Keunmi Lee"
Purpose: The revised Clinical Skills Test (CST) of the Korean Medical Licensing Exam aims to provide a better assessment of physicians' clinical competence and ability to interact with patients. This study examined the impact of the revised CST on medical education curricula and resources nationwide, while also identifying areas for improvement within the revised CST.
Methods: This study surveyed faculty responsible for clinical clerkships at 40 medical schools throughout Korea to evaluate the status and changes in clinical skills education, assessment, and resources related to the CST.
Backgruound: Because premed students do not take courses related to medicine during their first 2 years, they cannot establish their identity as students at medical schools, making it difficult for them to set goals as future doctors. We conducted an early clinical and basic laboratory exposure program for premed students and studied the effects of the program and student satisfaction levels.
Methods: We performed an early clinical and basic laboratory exposure program for premed students for 2 days and evaluated the effects of the program and student satisfaction with it.
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- * A study evaluated a health consultation program in Daegu, Korea, from March to June 2020, involving 20 doctors and 504 recovered patients who completed surveys about the program's effectiveness.
- * Results showed high satisfaction, with doctors rating the program's effectiveness at 4.00 and patients at 3.95, suggesting the program positively impacted their reintegration and offering insights for future improvements in similar initiatives.
During the Coronavirus Infection Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic, the number of patients released from quarantine is exceeding the number of newly diagnosed cases. This study is a retrospective cohort study in which consultation data were collected from a COVID-19 follow-up health consultation program. The studied population was selected from patients who recovered after quarantine and treatment for COVID-19 in Daegu City and in Gyeongsangbukdo province, Korea, from March to June 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe are currently experiencing the disaster of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the first case of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was confirmed in South Korea on January 20, the number of COVID-19 cases in South Korea has been rapidly increasing until early March due to a local spread in Daegu, which is one of the eight metropolitan cities in South Korea with a population of 2.5 million.
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- * Out of 4,748 women studied, 367 had hypertension, and those who slept less than 6 hours had a significantly higher risk of developing hypertension compared to those sleeping 6-8 hours.
- * The findings suggest that short sleep duration is a critical risk factor for hypertension in non-obese women, while no sleep duration-risk relationship was found in obese women.
The aim of this report was to discuss the development and content of a guide on clinical performance and basic clinical skills for medical students. We published the first edition of this guide in 2010 and will publish the second edition in 2016. Initially, we took a survey on important clinical presentations and fundamental clinical and technical skills in 41 medical schools in Korea.
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- A clinical trial tested the effects of Korean red ginseng (KRG) as a potential treatment for ADHD in children aged 6-15 years, comparing it with a placebo.
- After 8 weeks, children taking KRG showed significantly improved scores in inattention and hyperactivity compared to those on placebo.
- While the KRG group demonstrated a decrease in the theta/beta ratio of brain activity, there were no notable changes in salivary cortisol or DHEA levels for either group throughout the study.
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- Lactobacillus gasseri BNR17 is a probiotic strain sourced from human breast milk, previously shown to potentially aid in preventing obesity and diabetes through animal research.
- A double-blind study involved 62 obese adults over 12 weeks, where participants received either BNR17 or a placebo, with their body measurements and health parameters being tracked.
- By the end of the trial, there was a minor reduction in body weight and more significant decreases in waist and hip sizes for the BNR17 group compared to the placebo, but no major differences were found, suggesting a need for larger, longer-term studies.
This study was conducted to evaluate whether the composition of carbohydrate or fat diet affects insulin resistance by measuring the muscle glucose transport rate. Both high-sucrose and high-starch diet with or without high-fat decreased insulin-stimulated glucose transport, but there were no significant differences among groups. Calorie intake in both high-sucrose and high-starch diet groups was higher than in chow group.
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