FOUR CASES OF SEVERED PEDUNCLES IN BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS () ALONG THE ALABAMA COAST.

Alabama (AL) is a hotspot in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) for human interaction-related cetacean strandings, including harassment, vessel strikes, and fisheries interactions. We examined four bottlenose dolphins () stranded dead along the AL coast during 2012-2017 with severed peduncles suspected to be related to human interaction (HI). Evidence from each case, including photographs, gross necropsy results, and histopathologic findings when available, was reviewed to determine the mode of severance and whether it contributed to death.

Using Natural Language Processing to Evaluate the Quality of Supervisor Narrative Comments in Competency-Based Medical Education.

Purpose: Learner development and promotion rely heavily on narrative assessment comments, but narrative assessment quality is rarely evaluated in medical education. Educators have developed tools such as the Quality of Assessment for Learning (QuAL) tool to evaluate the quality of narrative assessment comments; however, scoring the comments generated in medical education assessment programs is time intensive. The authors developed a natural language processing (NLP) model for applying the QuAL score to narrative supervisor comments.

Ready for practice? National recommendations for emergency medicine transition to practice curriculum.

Background: Transition from residency to unsupervised practice represents a critical stage in learning and professional identity formation, yet there is a paucity of literature to inform residency curricula and emergency department transition programming for new faculty.

Objective: The objective of this study was to develop consensus-based recommendations to optimize the transition to practice phase of emergency medicine training.

Methods: A literature review and results of a survey of emergency medicine (EM) residency program directors informed focus groups of recent (within 5 years) EM graduates.

Reliability of Perceptual Judgments of Phonetic Accuracy and Hypernasality Among Speech-Language Pathologists for Children With Dysarthria.

Purpose The objectives of this study were to: (a) compare interrater reliability of practicing speech-language pathologists' (SLPs) perceptual judgments of phonetic accuracy and hypernasality between children with dysarthria and those with typical development, and (b) to identify speech factors that influence reliability of these perceptual judgments for children with dysarthria. Method Ten SLPs provided ratings of speech samples from twenty 5-year-old children with dysarthria and twenty 5-year-old children with typical development on two tasks via a web-based platform: a hypernasality judgment task and a phonetic accuracy judgment task. Interrater reliability of SLPs' ratings on both tasks was compared between children with dysarthria and children with typical development.

The Clinical Ultrasonography Elective in Clerkship (CUSEC): A pilot elective for senior clerkship students at the University of Saskatchewan.

We created a clinical ultrasound (CUS) elective in clerkship, which gave medical students the opportunity to enhance their knowledge and technical skills while refining their CUS-related clinical decision making. This elective uniquely allowed medical students to integrate their CUS knowledge and skills into real patient care within the clinical environment (discipline) of their choice. As such, beyond supporting increasing technical competence, students learned to advocate for appropriate use of CUS, an important skill for trainees to develop.

Simulation of windblown dust transport from a mine tailings impoundment using a computational fluid dynamics model.

Mining operations are potential sources of airborne particulate metal and metalloid contaminants through both direct smelter emissions and wind erosion of mine tailings. The warmer, drier conditions predicted for the Southwestern US by climate models may make contaminated atmospheric dust and aerosols increasingly important, due to potential deleterious effects on human health and ecology. Dust emissions and dispersion of dust and aerosol from the Iron King Mine tailings in Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona, a Superfund site, are currently being investigated through in situ field measurements and computational fluid dynamics modeling.

Modeling the emission, transport and deposition of contaminated dust from a mine tailing site.

Mining operations are potential sources of airborne particulate metal and metalloid contaminants through both direct smelter emissions and wind erosion of mine tailings. The warmer, drier conditions predicted for the Southwestern US by climate models may make contaminated atmospheric dust and aerosols increasingly important, due to potential deleterious effects on human health and ecology. Dust emissions and dispersion of contaminants from the Iron King Mine tailings in Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona, a Superfund site, are currently being investigated through in situ field measurements and computational fluid dynamics modeling.