Supporting early academic family medicine careers with the clinician scholar enhanced-skills program.

Context: The Clinician Scholar Program (CSP) is an enhanced-skills (R3) residency program to train clinician researchers/educators/leaders for academic family practice. This article intends to share Laval University's CSP development and evaluation strategy, and provide recommendations for similar innovations in other disciplines/settings.

Methods: This article uses Kern's model to present the program development, and a program-oriented approach for program evaluation, carried from 2011 to 2017 using descriptive data.

Interventions for undergraduate and postgraduate medical learners with academic difficulties: A BEME systematic review: BEME Guide No. 56.

Clinical teachers often struggle to report unsatisfactory trainee performance, partly because of a lack of evidence-based remediation options. To identify interventions for undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) medical learners experiencing academic difficulties, link them to a theory-based framework and provide literature-based recommendations around their use. This systematic review searched MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, ERIC, Education Source and PsycINFO (1990-2016) combining these concepts: medical education, professional competence/difficulty and educational support.

Airway inflammatory responses following exposure to occupational agents.

Background: Airway inflammatory responses to specific inhalation challenges (SICs) with low-molecular-weight (LMW) and high-molecular-weight (HMW) agents have not been studied thoroughly. We assessed the changes in airway inflammatory cells following SIC in sensitized workers, and looked at the influence of various factors on the pattern of inflammatory responses to SIC.

Methods: Induced sputum analysis was performed in workers sensitized to LMW (n = 41) or HMW agents (n = 41) after a control day and after a positive SIC.

Characteristics and medical resource use of asthmatic subjects with and without work-related asthma.

Background: Asthma is work related when there is an association between symptoms and work. Occupational asthma (OA) is induced by the workplace, whereas work-exacerbated asthma (WEA) is triggered by the workplace but not induced by it.

Objective: We sought to compare the clinical characteristics and the use of medical resources between subjects with work-related asthma (WRA) and asthmatic control subjects without WRA, as well as between subjects with OA and subjects with WEA.