The Plastic Surgery Common Application: Improving Efficiency and Reducing Inequity in the Application Process.

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.

Evaluation of Racial Microaggressions Experienced During Medical School Training and the Effect on Medical Student Education and Burnout: A Validation Study.

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).

Eosinophilic recruitment in thermally injured older animals is associated with worse outcomes and higher conversion to full thickness burn.

Background: 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).

An Evaluation of Emergency Hand Coverage in Tennessee After Implementation of the Affordable Care Act.

Although 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.