Building a supportive clinical learning environment: Orienting newly licensed nurses to their impact on the professional development of physician trainees.

What Was The Educational Challenge?: Nurses play an essential role in the professional development of physician trainees within the clinical learning environment (CLE), but rarely receive formal training regarding this role.

What Was The Solution?: Utilizing a multifaceted, systematic approach, we developed an educational program for newly licensed nurses which addressed their role in the CLE and the professional development of physician trainees.

How Was The Solution Implemented?: We delivered two 90-minute workshops to approximately 40 nurses during the 2021-2022 academic year.

Multi-omics data integration identifies novel biomarkers and patient subgroups in inflammatory bowel disease.

Background: Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), comprising Crohn's Disease (CD) and Ulcerative Colitis (UC), is a complex condition with diverse manifestations; recent advances in multi-omics technologies are helping researchers unravel its molecular characteristics to develop targeted treatments.

Objective: In this work, we explored one of the largest multi-omics cohorts in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, the Study of a Prospective Adult Research Cohort (SPARC IBD), with the goal of identifying predictive biomarkers for CD and UC and elucidating patient subtypes.

Design: We analyzed genomics, transcriptomics (gut biopsy samples), and proteomics (blood plasma) from hundreds of patients from SPARC IBD.

The determination of endogenous steroids in hair and fur: A systematic review of methodologies.

Background: Endogenous steroid hormone assessment is essential for clinical practice. These hormones are typically measured in blood. More recently, measurement of steroids in hair samples has been gaining in popularity, so we have reviewed the methodologies used for this to-date.