Fourth-year Student Pharmacists' Perceptions of a Required Student-run Free Clinic Experience.

Objective: The University of Michigan Student-Run Free Clinic (UMSRFC) provides quality preventive, acute, and chronic care free of charge to uninsured and underinsured community members. We sought to assess fourth-year student pharmacists' (P4) attitudes toward providing care as part of a required experience at the UMSRFC during their Ambulatory Care Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience.

Methods: All P4s in the 2023-2024 academic year completed an 8-hour experience at the UMSRFC.

Using digital communication tools to improve interprofessional collaboration and satisfaction in a student-run free clinic.

Background: Interprofessional collaboration can improve the quality of care in complex health conditions often seen in underserved populations. Communication is key to effective collaboration, and digital communication tools can enhance information sharing, collaboration, and satisfaction between professionals, especially when teams are distanced.

Local Problem: In a semirural student-run free clinic that provides care to uninsured and underinsured patients with multifaceted health issues, there is a gap in communication and collaboration across interprofessional teams because of the frequent rotation of various staff, part-time hours, and electronic health record (EHR) function and interoperability limitations.

Disease-associated comorbidities, medication records and anthropometric measures in adults with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

We investigated the comorbidities, associated factors, and the relationship between anthropometric measures and respiratory function and functional abilities in adults with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). This was a single-centre cross-sectional study in genetically diagnosed adults with DMD (>16 years old). Univariate and multivariate analyses identified factors associated with dysphagia, constipation, Body Mass Index (BMI), and weight.

Functional abilities, respiratory and cardiac function in a large cohort of adults with Duchenne muscular dystrophy treated with glucocorticoids.

Background And Purpose: The transition to adult services, and subsequent glucocorticoid management, is critical in adults with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. This study aims (1) to describe treatment, functional abilities, respiratory and cardiac status during transition to adulthood and adult stages; and (2) to explore the association between glucocorticoid treatment after loss of ambulation (LOA) and late-stage clinical outcomes.

Methods: This was a retrospective single-centre study on individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (≥16 years old) between 1986 and 2022.