Publications by authors named "Mary C Anderson"

Unlabelled: Navigating novel, unpredicted service disruptions can be complex and unparalleled. To effectively handle service interruptions, board certified behavior analysts (BCBAs®) must make sound clinical decisions, comply with the Behavior Analyst Certification Board's Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts (2020a), and critically engage in ongoing risk/benefit assessments for each individual client. Unfortunately, most BCBAs do not receive coursework, training, or fieldwork supervision in advanced risk mitigation.

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  • Residency applicants often complete visiting student electives (VSEs) to improve their chances of matching at host institutions, but evidence on their effectiveness is limited.
  • A study reviewed academic records and matching outcomes for graduates over seven years, finding that the use of VSEs significantly varied by specialty.
  • Results indicated that surgical applicants who completed VSEs were more likely to match at host programs, suggesting that VSEs can influence residency placement decisions.
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Background: The purpose of our study was to determine the predictive impact of individual academic measures for the matriculation of senior medical students into a general surgery residency.

Methods: Academic records were evaluated for third-year medical students (n = 781) at a single institution between 2004 and 2011. Cohorts were defined by student matriculation into either a general surgery residency program (n = 58) or a non-general surgery residency program (n = 723).

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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has been commonly used among Americans; however, less is known about its use among men with a history of prostate cancer. This study used the 2002 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to explore the amount and type of CAM use among 218 Black and White men with a history of prostate cancer. Over 90% of men reported having ever used any form of CAM and most men used biologically-based and mind-body therapies.

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We showed that metacomprehension accuracy improved when participants (N=87 college students) wrote summaries of texts prior to judging their comprehension; however, accuracy only improved when summaries were written after a delay, not when written immediately after reading. We evaluated two hypotheses proposed to account for this delayed-summarization effect (the accessibility hypothesis and the situation model hypothesis). The data suggest that participants based metacomprehension judgments more on the gist of texts when they generated summaries after a delay; whereas, they based judgments more on details when they generated summaries immediately after reading.

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