Visual thinking Strategies and the peril of 'see one, do one, teach one'.

Visual Thinking Strategies is an arts and humanities pedagogical intervention increasingly incorporated into medical education. As a straightforward method that appears easy to use, its nuances are often overlooked or-less frequently-improperly implemented entirely. Such haphazard use can lead to lessened impact for learners, and result in inconsistent and non-generalizable findings in studies in the nascent field of arts and humanities medical education.

The Opaque Language of Sexuality: Medical Students' and Providers' Beliefs About Virginity.

Although virginity is not a medical term and is instead socially constructed, it remains unknown what medical providers believe about the biological basis of virginity. This study explored providers' and medical students' beliefs about virginity and the potential impact of such beliefs on healthcare. This was a concurrent mixed-method survey study of 124 medical students and 216 healthcare providers (Registered Nurse, Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, and Doctor of Medicine) at Penn State Health and The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine.

Promotion Preparation Tips for Academic Family Medicine Educators.

Background And Objectives: Promotion has historically valued the scholarship of discovery over the scholarship of teaching. The clinician-educator promotion pathway is an attractive option for academic family physicians engaged in significant teaching. However, clinician-educators are less often promoted than peers on other tracks.

Taking Off the Mask: Impostorism and Medical Education.

Introduction: Professional identity formation is the complex and iterative process by which medical students learn to think, act, and feel like physicians.

Methods: Using mask making, we iteratively explored changes in student perceptions of their identity across time during medical school.

Results: Themes of impostorism, uncertainty, and identity progression/integration were identified.

Increased Scholarly Activity: A Benefit of 4-Year Family Medicine Residencies.

Introduction: The optimal length of Family Medicine Residency is unknown. As part of the American Board of Family Medicine 4-year Length of Training (LoT) pilot project, Naval Hospital Jacksonville (NHJ) maintained a dual-track 3- and 4-year Family Medicine Residency, graduating seven 4-year residents over consecutive 4 years of the LoT program. One measure of success regarding the impact of 4-year residents on program outcomes is scholarly output during residency.

Anticipating the care adolescents will need.

The HEADSS approach is one way to begin discussing key clinical and social topics and to guide further screening or intervention.

Transformative Learning in the Art Museum: A Methods Review.

Clinical educators are continually seeking innovative methods and settings for teaching. As such, they have increasingly begun to use art museums as a new educational space in which to build clinically-relevant skills and promote learners' professional identity formation. Art museum-based pedagogy can be understood through the framework of transformative learning theory, which provides an account of how adults learn through experience.

Organizing Chaos: Iterative Professional Identity Formation Through the Lens of Mask Making.

Introduction: Professional identity formation (PIF) is a sociocultural process through which medical students adopt the professional role of physician. This process is often unscripted and influenced by informal curricular elements. PIF is as important as the acquisition of knowledge and clinical skill in the continuum of medical education.

Tests, surgical masks, hospital beds, and ventilators: add big data to the list of tools to fight the coronavirus that are in short supply.

Big data could help identify potential clues about the immediate (and future) impact of coronavirus disease 2019, but it is in short supply.

Unmasking Identity: Observations From a Cohort of Entering Medical Students.

Background And Objectives: Professional identity formation (PIF) is increasingly recognized as a core element of medical education. The use of narrative reflection is traditionally the most common means to explore PIF. We explored the use of mask-making as a process of reflective expression to encourage iterative exploration of professional identity in medical students.

Forward Feeding in Graduate Medical Education: Results of a National Survey.

Background And Objectives: "Forward feeding" is defined as the sharing of information regarding learner behaviors and performance outside of formal institutional committee structures. The purpose of this study was to establish baseline opinions and policies of forward feeding in family medicine residency programs.

Methods: Data for this study were obtained as part of the 2015 CERA Program Directors Fall Survey.

Medical School Strategies to Address Student Well-Being: A National Survey.

Purpose: To describe the breadth of strategies U.S. medical schools use to promote medical student well-being.

Dental Problems in Primary Care.

Oral health directly affects overall health and quality of life. More Americans lack dental insurance than medical insurance. Patients with poor oral health are more likely to have respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and diabetes mellitus.

Dysrhythmias with Loperamide Used for Opioid Withdrawal.

The antidiarrheal loperamide has had a recent, drastic increase in off-label use as an alternative treatment for symptoms of opioid withdrawal. The concept of this is easily discovered on the Internet and social media, where there are multiple blogs and forums promoting loperamide use at doses of 70 to 200 mg per day. Unfortunately, the serious side effects are not well recognized.

Assessing Military Community Support: Relations Among Perceived Military Community Support, Child Psychosocial Adjustment, and Parent Psychosocial Adjustment.

Introduction: The emotional, cognitive, and behavioral health of the nearly two million children of military service members in the United States is important as these children play an integral role in the operational readiness of the armed forces. For example, when a service member's child experiences psychosocial difficulties, these difficulties often impact the service member's personal well-being and ability to focus at work, impairing the service member's ability to focus on the mission. Although military service members and their families (e.

Pedometry to Prevent Cardiorespiratory Fitness Decline-Is it Effective?

Introduction: Physically active providers are more likely to prescribe exercise. Unfortunately, many become sedentary during their training. We examined pedometry as an incentive to promote physical activity in a cohort of medical students.