Publications by authors named "L KASPAREK"
Article Synopsis
- Small proteins, encoded by small open reading frames, are gaining attention for their roles in various biological functions, including metabolism regulation and disease impact.
- Bacterial small proteins remain largely unexplored due to difficulties in isolating and culturing samples from natural communities, necessitating metagenomic approaches for better characterization.
- The metaBP toolkit has been developed to analyze metagenomic data, allowing for the discovery and functional annotation of bacterial peptides, significantly enhancing the understanding of small protein diversity and their roles in microbial communities.
Objectives: To determine how simulator training impacts patients' preferences about medical student procedures in the emergency department.
Methods: A questionnaire was administered to a convenience sample of 151 of 185 patients approached (82% participation) seen in the emergency department of a midwestern teaching hospital. The questionnaire asked how many procedures they would prefer a medical student have performed after mastering the procedure on a simulator before allowing the medical student to perform this procedure on them.