Improving pediatric procedural skills and EPA assessments through an acute care procedural skills curriculum.

Introduction: Acute procedural skill competence is expected by the end of pediatric residency training; however, the extent to which residents are actually competent is not clear. Therefore, a cross-sectional observational study was performed to examine the competency of pediatric residents in acute care procedures in emergency medicine.

Materials And Methods: Pediatric residents underwent didactic/hands-on "Acute Procedure Day" where they performed procedures with direct supervision and received entrustable professional activity (EPA) assessments (scores from 1-5) for each attempt.

Children with autism spectrum disorder who demonstrate normal language scores use a bottom-up semantic processing strategy: Evidence from N400 recordings.

Introduction: The N400 is an electrophysiological component that reflects lexical access and integration of words with mental representations.

Methods: Thirty-five young children with a range of language capabilities (n = 21 neurotypical controls, 10 males, mean age = 6.3 ± 0.

Status and drivers of maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in the Islamic world: a comparative analysis.

Background: The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) period saw dramatic gains in health goals MDG 4 and MDG 5 for improving child and maternal health. However, many Muslim countries in the south Asian, Middle Eastern, and African regions lagged behind. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the status of, progress in, and key determinants of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health in Muslim majority countries (MMCs).