Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open
March 2024
Background: The Plastic Surgery Central Application (PSCA), designed to provide an equitable and streamlined application for both applicants and programs, was first designed in 2019, piloted in the 2020-21 application cycle, and is now in its fourth cycle in 2023-24. It has included preference signaling since the 2022-23 cycle, a feature in which applicants can send five "signals" to programs to express interest. We surveyed both program directors (PDs) and applicants following the 2023 match on their perceptions of PSCA versus Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS).
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January 2022
The residency application process is expensive, costing an average of $2149 in application fees per applicant during the 2020-2021 cycle. Additionally, the number of applications per applicant continues to rise annually across all specialties. This considerable cost creates a financial barrier for students, particularly those from first-generation and underrepresented backgrounds.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Burn injury remains a serious cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Severity of burns is determined by the percentage of burned area compared to the body surface area, age of patient, and by the depth of skin and soft tissue involvement; these factors determine management as well as prospective outcomes. The pathophysiology of partial- to full-thickness burn conversion remains poorly understood and is associated with a worse overall prognosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Although orbital fractures are less common in children than adults, the literature suggests that orbital entrapment occurs more frequently in the pediatric population. Orbital entrapment is an emergency, and early diagnosis and prompt management are critical. Specific radiographic manifestations such as herniation of extraocular muscles (EOMs) through orbital fractures have led to increased suspicion and overdiagnosis of orbital entrapment.
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May 2021
Introduction: Microaggressions in the learning environment have been documented at various levels of medical training. However, there is lack of data detailing the prevalence and effects of racial microaggressions in medical school. This limits interventions that might improve the learning environment for underrepresented minority medical students (URMMS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Radiographic assessment of facial fractures with computed tomography (CT) scanning has become standard of care. As imaging resolution has improved, findings such as herniation of extraocular muscles (EOM) have become a means of diagnosing conditions like orbital entrapment. However, the sensitivity and specificity of these findings has not been well-studied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Advanced age alters many physiological processes in the body, including both innate and adaptive immune responses, affecting burn wound healing. Previous findings in our lab led us to look more closely at eosinophil infiltration of burn tissues. We hypothesize that burn wounds within the older population present with an increased population of eosinophils than those in the younger population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Partial burn injury in older patients is associated with higher rates of morbidity, mortality, and conversion to full thickness burn (Finnerty et al., 2009; Pham et al., 2009).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough the upper extremity is the most commonly injured part of the body, many studies have indicated that there is a lack of emergency hand coverage in the United States. In 2010, our laboratory evaluated on-call hand coverage in Tennessee (TN) and found that only 7% of hospitals had a hand surgeon on call for emergency cases at all times. In 2014, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented with the goal of increasing overall access to care and decreasing health care costs.
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