A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Analysis of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Presence Among United States Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program Websites.

Objective: To evaluate the presence of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) among US occupational and environmental medicine (OEM) residency program websites.

Methods: In January to February 2022, two independent reviewers evaluated the websites of all 24 US accredited OEM residency programs and documented the presence of 10 predetermined DEI metrics and resident/faculty photographs and biographies.

Results: Program websites included a median of 1 (0-3) DEI element with 46% of websites containing none of the DEI metrics.

Return to Work, Demographic Predictors, and Symptomatic Analysis Among Healthcare Workers Presenting for COVID-19 Testing: A Retrospective Cohort From a United States Academic Occupational Medicine Clinic.

Introduction We sought to determine time to return to work (RTW) among healthcare workers (HCWs) with mild/moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and identify predictors of COVID-19 test positivity and illness duration.  Methods A retrospective review of HCWs presenting for COVID-19 testing/evaluation in December 2020 was performed to examine demographics, clinical characteristics, and RTW. Results Of 250 exposure incidents, 107 employees (42.

Memory for a virtual reality experience in children and adults according to image quality, emotion, and sense of presence.

Unlabelled: Numerous studies have explored the effects of virtual reality (VR) on adults' cognition. Little is known, however, of these effects in children. The aim of this study was to explore, in both children and adults, the respective roles of the specific factors of VR, such as immersion, sense of presence and emotion, on memory performance.

Heart Rate Variability and Performance of Commercial Airline Pilots during Flight Simulations.

Pilots undergo a variety of stressors that may affect their performance during all phases of flight. Heart rate variability (HRV) has been considered as a reliable indicator of the parasympathetic and sympathetic activities of human autonomic nervous system, which can be used to characterize the sympathetic stress response of pilots during flight. In this study, thirty active commercial airline pilots were recruited to fly three flight segments in a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-certified A320 flight simulator with each segment at a different carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentration on the flight deck.