Motivations and barriers for recruitment of new emergency medicine residency graduates to rural emergency departments.

Study Objective: We sought to understand the motivations and barriers for recruitment of new emergency medicine residency graduates to rural emergency departments (EDs).

Methods: We used the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile to identify 2006 to 2008 emergency medicine residency graduates and then surveyed everyone currently practicing in rural EDs and a random sample of those practicing in urban EDs. We asked these emergency physicians about the importance of various factors in their choice of practice location.

Indium triflate catalyzed peracetylation of carbohydrates.

Peracetylation is a very common protection strategy that is widely implemented in carbohydrate synthesis. Here, a method for the peracetylation of carbohydrates using catalytic In(OTf)(3) in neat acetic anhydride is reported. In(OTf)(3) has low toxicity and is mild and water tolerant, and the reactions are high yielding and efficient.