Experiences of racism of Black medical students and residents in Montréal: "I wear my stethoscope around my neck at all times".

Background: Black students and residents experience racism in medical school. This qualitative study documents Black students' and residents' experiences of racism using Critical Race Theory (CRT) and explores their coping mechanisms using the theatrical metaphor.

Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with four Black medical students and residents (two medical students and two residents) studying in Montréal and analyzed their experiences through counter-stories.

A Comprehensive Analysis of Renal and Endothelium Dysfunction Markers Fourteen Years after Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome Contraction.

While the pathology of acute hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) has been widely researched, details on the chronic HFRS sequelae remain mainly unexplored. In this study, we analyzed the clinical and laboratory characteristics of 30 convalescent HFRS patients 14 years after the disease contraction, mainly emphasizing several endothelial dysfunction parameters. Convalescent HFRS patients exhibited significantly higher serum levels of erythrocyte sedimentation rate, von Willebrand factor, uric acid, C-reactive protein and immunoglobulin A when compared to healthy individuals.

Basic psychological need satisfaction of collegiate athletes: the unique and interactive effects of team identification and LMX quality.

Purpose: The present study sought to understand the relationships between team identification, leader-member exchange (LMX) quality, and the basic psychological need satisfaction of collegiate athletes, as well as the moderating role of coach-athlete LMX quality.

Methods: Self-reported data from 319 collegiate athletes were analyzed using SPSS version 29. The relationships between the study variables were tested by moderation analysis using PROCESS macro model 1.

Assessment of antimicrobial prescribing practice, knowledge, and culture in three teaching hospitals.

Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AR) is one of the most critical threats to global health. One of its root causes, misuse of antibiotics, can stem from prescribers' preconceived ideas, differing attitudes, and lack of knowledge. Canadian data on this subject are scarce.

Between agency and systemic barriers: Pathways to medicine and health sciences among Black students with immigrant parents from the Caribbean or Sub-Saharan Africa in Quebec, Canada.

This qualitative study, based on life stories, documents the pathways to medicine and health sciences of Black students with immigrant parents from the Caribbean or Sub-Saharan Africa in Quebec, Canada. The aim of this study is to investigate the factors that shape their educational pathways using Doray's framework. Even among students from families with substantial levels of education, the educational pathways to medicine or health sciences may be described as non-linear.

The POSI study: gender differences in 94 cases of postoperative shoulder surgery infection: results of a 7-year retrospective multicenter study.

Background: Contrary to lower limb infection, POstoperative Shoulder surgery Infection (POSI) often involves Cutibacterium acnes. Our aim was to describe patient characteristics and pathogens retrieved in POSI to guide initial empiric antibiotic selection with suspected infection during revision. We also compared microorganisms in infection following trauma, arthroplasty (AP), and arthroscopy (AS).

Are different station formats assessing different dimensions in multiple mini-interviews? Findings from the Canadian integrated French multiple mini-interviews.

Background: Multiple mini-interviews (MMI) are used to assess non-academic attributes for selection in medicine and other healthcare professions. It remains unclear if different MMI station formats (discussions, role-plays, collaboration) assess different dimensions.

Methods: Based on station formats of the 2018 and 2019 Integrated French MMI (IFMMI), which comprised five discussions, three role-plays and two collaboration stations, the authors performed confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) using the lavaan 0.

Black students applying and admitted to medicine in the province of Quebec, Canada: what do we know so far?

To address the underrepresentation of Black students in medical schools in Canada and identify barriers in selection processes, we compare data from the latest Canadian census to that of an exit-survey conducted after a situational judgment test (Casper) among medical school applicants and from questionnaires done after selection interviews in Quebec, Canada. The proportion of Black people aged 15-34 years old in Quebec in 2016 was 5.3% province-wide and 8.

SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in health care workers from 10 hospitals in Quebec, Canada: a cross-sectional study.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected health care workers. We sought to estimate SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence among hospital health care workers in Quebec, Canada, after the first wave of the pandemic and to explore factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity.

Methods: Between July 6 and Sept.

The Mini-Med School and Its Impact on Future Health Care Professionals' Attitudes toward Indigenous People.

Mini-Med Schools (MiMS) are an opportunity for health sciences and social work undergraduates to discuss health-related topics with Innu and Atikamekw youth in Canada. More than 500 undergraduates and 1,000 students have taken part in the project since its beginning in 2011. This study aims to assess the impact of both 1) MiMS's predeparture training and 2) the MiMS themselves on undergraduates' prejudices toward Indigenous peoples.

Improving primary care access to respirologists using eConsult.

Background: Patients and primary care providers (PCPs) can experience frustration about poor access to specialist care. The Champlain Building Access to Specialists through eConsultation (BASETM) is a secure online platform that allows PCPs to ask a clinical question to 142 different specialty groups. The specialist is expected to respond within 7 days.

Validation of a Gradient Diffusion Method (Etest) for Testing of Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Aerococcus urinae to Fluoroquinolones.

Aerococcus urinae is a urinary pathogen with well-described resistance to fluoroquinolones. This study aimed to validate the gradient diffusion (GD) method (Etest) on cation-adjusted Mueller-Hinton agar with 5% sheep blood for testing the susceptibilities of Aerococcus urinae to the antimicrobial agents ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin and to compare the Etest to the broth microdilution (BMD) method from CLSI document M45-A3. Agar dilution (AD), as recommended by EUCAST, was used as an alternative reference method to arbitrate discrepancies or address technical issues.

Strategies for Vaccine Prioritization and Mass Dispensing.

We propose a system that helps decision makers during a pandemic find, in real time, the mass vaccination strategies that best utilize limited medical resources to achieve fast containments and population protection. Our general-purpose framework integrates into a single computational platform a multi-purpose compartmental disease propagation model, a human behavior network, a resource logistics model, and a stochastic queueing model for vaccination operations. We apply the modeling framework to the current COVID-19 pandemic and derive an optimal trigger for switching from a prioritized vaccination strategy to a non-prioritized strategy so as to minimize the overall attack rate and mortality rate.

Cyanotoxin mixture models: Relating environmental variables and toxin co-occurrence to human exposure risk.

Toxic cyanobacterial blooms, often containing multiple toxins, are a serious public health issue. However, there are no known models that predict a cyanotoxin mixture (anatoxin-a, microcystin, saxitoxin). This paper presents two cyanotoxin mixture models (MIX) and compares them to two microcystin (MC) models from data collected in 2016-2017 from three recurring cyanobacterial bloom locations in Kabetogama Lake, Voyageurs National Park (Minnesota, USA).

Magnetic Field-Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition of UO Thin Films.

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of UO thin films from in situ reductive decomposition using a U(VI) precursor ([U(OBu)]) was performed under applied magnetic fields (up to 1 T). The molecular mechanism responsible for the formation of U(IV) oxide was determined by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis of gaseous byproducts revealed a reductive transformation of uranium --butoxide into urania. Thin films were grown under zero-field and applied magnetic field conditions that clearly showed the guiding influence of the magnetic field on altering the morphology and crystallographic orientation of grains in UO deposits produced under an external magnetic field.

The Origin of COVID-19 and Why It Matters.

The COVID-19 pandemic is among the deadliest infectious diseases to have emerged in recent history. As with all past pandemics, the specific mechanism of its emergence in humans remains unknown. Nevertheless, a large body of virologic, epidemiologic, veterinary, and ecologic data establishes that the new virus, SARS-CoV-2, evolved directly or indirectly from a β-coronavirus in the sarbecovirus (SARS-like virus) group that naturally infect bats and pangolins in Asia and Southeast Asia.

strain isolated from a human: A case report and whole genome sequencing analysis.

We describe a strain of isolated from a bronchoalveolar lavage specimen from an 83-year-old patient in the province of Québec. Identification was done using 16S rRNA sequencing. The strain could replicate efficiently in human THP-1 macrophages and maintained a low level of cytotoxicity.

Accuracy of rating scale interval values used in multiple mini-interviews: a mixed methods study.

When determining the score given to candidates in multiple mini-interview (MMI) stations, raters have to translate a narrative judgment to an ordinal rating scale. When adding individual scores to calculate final ranking, it is generally presumed that the values of possible scores on the evaluation grid are separated by constant intervals, following a linear function, although this assumption is seldom validated with raters themselves. Inaccurate interval values could lead to systemic bias that could potentially distort candidates' final cumulative scores.

Gelation of uranyl ions and gel-derived uranium oxide nanoparticles for gas sensing.

We developed a sol-gel method to synthesize uranium oxide nanoparticles with a clean surface and mixed valences of uranium at the surface. Uranyl gel was formed in ethylene glycol without incorporating any organic gelator and was readily converted to uranium dioxide nanoparticles with uniform size microwave treatment. The as-prepared uranyl gel showed a high storage modulus of 0.

An Infectious cDNA Clone of SARS-CoV-2.

The ongoing pandemic of COVID-19, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), underscores the urgency to develop experimental systems for studying this virus and identifying countermeasures. We report a reverse genetic system for SARS-CoV-2. Seven complimentary DNA (cDNA) fragments spanning the SARS-CoV-2 genome were assembled into a full-genome cDNA.

Calcium sulphate mixed with antibiotics does not decrease efficacy against (formerly ), study.

Background: This study explored the efficacy of antibiotics mixed with calcium sulfate (ACS) against

Methods: isolates from orthopaedic infection sites were tested for antimicrobial susceptibility with ACS. Minimal inhibitory concentrations (MIC) were determined with a gradient diffusion method (Etest® strips).

Results: When tested with Etest®, all 22 isolates were susceptible to penicillin, ceftriaxone, vancomycin, and two were resistant to clindamycin (MICs of 4 and 8 mg/L).