Women in academic radiology: Barriers and benefits of representation, mentorship, coaching, and advocacy.

Gender diversity contributes to creativity and collective intelligence in the workplace. Women bring a unique perspective to the practice of medicine; however, there is a persistent underrepresentation of women in the field of radiology. Female radiologists face distinct challenges associated with underrepresentation and significant gender disparities.

Decreasing Workflow and Educational Interruptions in the Reading Room: Working Smarter, Not Harder.

Objective: Disruptions in image interpretation lead to interrupted education and inefficiency, and ultimately delay patient care. In the academic reading room, time can often be spent rerouting phone calls. The objective of this study was to evaluate resident perception of current workflow, decrease interruptions, and improve patient care and resident education by implementing a cost-effective automated centralized phone tree.

Expert elicitation on the relative importance of possible SARS-CoV-2 transmission routes and the effectiveness of mitigations.

Objectives: To help people make decisions about the most effective mitigation measures against SARS-CoV-2 transmission in different scenarios, the likelihoods of transmission by different routes need to be quantified to some degree (however uncertain). These likelihoods need to be communicated in an appropriate way to illustrate the relative importance of different routes in different scenarios, the likely effectiveness of different mitigation measures along those routes, and the level of uncertainty in those estimates. In this study, a pragmatic expert elicitation was undertaken to supply the underlying quantitative values to produce such a communication tool.

Substance prioritisation for the development of EU Acute Exposure Toxicity Thresholds (AETLs).

The aim of the EU Acute Exposure project, ACUTEX, is to develop a methodology for establishing European Acute Exposure Threshold Levels, EU AETLs, for toxic substances in relation to harm to people by inhalation. The development of AETLs is initially in the context of the risks of major accidents from chemical sites and in particular their regulation through the EU 'Seveso II' Directive. It is intended that AETLs can be used within Member States, where appropriate, to inform decisions on land-use planning and emergency planning.

Artifacts and Archives/Archives et artefacts de la pratique médicale. The origin of the Canadian Cancer Society.

In 1929, when the Saskatchewan Medical Association created a Cancer Committee, the major achievement of the Committee was the establishment of the first government supported comprehensive provincial cancer control program in Canada. The report also proposed the establishment of a voluntary medical-lay Canadian Society for the Control of Cancer. As the comprehensive cancer control concept spread across Canada within the provinicial medical associations and provinicials governments, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), represented by Dr.

William Fulton Gillespie, 1891-1949: transitional figure in western Canadian academic surgery.

The professional life of William Fulton Gillespie, third professor of surgery at the University of Alberta (1939-49) and tenth president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (1947-49), exemplifies a critical transitional period in Canadian postgraduate surgical training and in western Canadian academic surgery. This article explores the background, the training, the professional career, and the personal character of a surgical scholar and student of the humanities and arts, a man who was thrust into the professorship of surgery in a maturing western Canadian medical school following the financial restraints of the Great Depression and during the challenges faced as a result of the World War II.

XYY chromosome anomaly and schizophrenia.

Sex chromosome anomalies have been associated with psychoses, and most of the evidence is linked to the presence of an additional X chromosome. We report a patient with XYY chromosome anomaly who developed schizophrenia.

Discovery in medicine--chance or science? The case of woodworkers' nasal cancer.

The relative roles of chance and scientific observation in medical discovery are discussed. The emergence of ethmoidal adenocarcinoma as an industrial disease among makers of wooden furniture in an English area is related. Regular monitoring clinics held in the factories are then justified.

Canadian surgery during the French regime, 1608 to 1763.

The history of medicine in Canada, from the establishment of Quebec by Champlain in 1608 to the ceding of Canada to the British by the French at the Treaty of Paris in 1763, represents one of the most colourful periods in the history of Canadian surgery. Physicians were notable by their absence and what medicine was available in La Nouvelle France was provided almost exclusively by surgeons, or apothecaries, or individuals who posed as such. Sketches from the lives of five surgeons (Bonnerme, Giffard, Goupil, Bouchard and Sarrazin), an apothecary (Hébert) and a physician; (Gaultier), are presented to highlight various facets of medical care and the leadership role played by medical practitioners in the development of Canada during that period.

Observations on the staining of ceruloplasmin following disc-electrophoresis utilizing polyacrylamide gels.

In our hands the dianisidine technique for the staining of ceruloplasmin in polyacrylamide gels following disc electrophoresis has proven unsatisfactory for three reasons. First, staining of ceruloplasmin could not be achieved with physiological amounts of the glycoglobulin present in serum. Second, even when relatively massive quantities of pure ceruloplasmin permitted effective staining there was loss of stain intensity with increasing electrophoresis time.

Impairment of nasal mucociliary clearance in woodworkers in the furniture industry.

10-17. Measurements of mucociliary clearance from the anterior end of the middle turbinate were made using technetium-99m-labelled particles in nine woodworkers from the furniture industry and in 12 controls, none of whom had been occupationally exposed to wood dust. Clearance rates in the controls ranged from 1·9 to 18·5 mm min with a mean of 6·8.