Publications by authors named "Marjorie Pomerleau"

Objectives: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is a destabilizing experience for medical students and resident doctors and troubles their training in the hospital setting. This narrative review aims to identify the effect of health crises on the academic and personal lives of medical trainees and to develop solutions to support them.

Methods: EducationSource, MedLine and PsychInfo were consulted on June 30th and December 16th, 2020 to identify the articles explaining the effect of SARS-CoV-1 (2002), A/H1N1 (2009) or SARS-CoV-2 (ongoing) on medical learners.

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Background: Written feedback is essential in resident teaching, but preceptors are not always well equipped to provide relevant feedback. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of multi-episodic training and the use of a criterion-referenced guide for written feedback for family medicine preceptors in a French-language academic hospital.

Method: Twenty-three (23) preceptors participated in the training and used the criterion-referenced guide to guide them during the written evaluation in an evaluation sheet named "Field Notes.

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Background: Increasing exercise intensity has been shown to reduce energy intake in men.

Objective: The main objective of this study was to investigate the effects of exercise intensity on energy intake in women.

Design: Thirteen moderately active (peak oxygen uptake: 44.

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Adaptations that promote positive energy balance appear in response to dietary restriction. The aim of this study was to determine whether fasting and postprandial total ghrelin increase in response to short-term energy restriction. Fifteen adult male subjects were subjected to a 4-d energy restricted diet (-800 kcal/d).

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Objective: Adiponectin is an adipocyte-secreted protein that has been shown to promote fat oxidation and insulin sensitivity in animals. Whether acute energy restriction is associated with modulation of adiponectin in humans remains largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a short-term caloric restriction on fasting and postprandial adiponectin levels in young healthy men.

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