Transcriptome Analysis of Developing Grains from Wheat Cultivars TAM 111 and TAM 112 Reveal Cultivar-Specific Regulatory Networks.

Wheat flour's end-use quality is tightly linked to the quantity and composition of storage proteins in the endosperm. TAM 111 and TAM 112 are two popular cultivars grown in the Southern US Great Plains with significantly different protein content. To investigate regulatory differences, transcriptome data were analyzed from developing grains at early- and mid-filling stages.

A behaviorally anchored assessment tool for bedside teaching in the emergency department.

Evaluating a resident's development as a bedside educator in the emergency department (ED) is challenging. Teaching consults, where trainees are observed and assessed in their teaching skills, have been used to improve bedside teaching. Within emergency medicine, there are a few assessment tools to evaluate a clinician's bedside teaching, with the majority focusing on faculty.

Peer coaching increases emergency medicine faculty ability to perform and teach awake fiberoptic intubation.

Objectives: This study sought to evaluate the impact of peer coaching as a continuing medical education (CME) modality to improve faculty performance and teaching of a low-frequency, high-complexity procedure, awake fiberoptic intubation (AFOI).

Methods: Academic emergency medicine faculty at a single tertiary care, Level I trauma center participated in a prospective pre-/postinterventional assessment of a peer coaching educational intervention. Participants completed a preintervention online survey to identify comfort and previous experience with performing and teaching AFOI.

Case Report: Paucisymptomatic College-Age Population as a Reservoir for Potentially Neutralization-Resistant Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Variants.

To better understand the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variant lineage distribution in a college campus population, we carried out viral genome surveillance over a 7-week period from January to March 2021. Among the sequences were three novel viral variants: BV-1 with a B.1.

Development and Validation of a Lecture Assessment Tool for Emergency Medicine Residents.

Background: Delivering quality lectures is a critical skill for residents seeking careers in academia yet no validated tools for assessing resident lecture skills exist.

Objectives: The authors sought to develop and validate a lecture assessment tool.

Methods: Using a nominal group technique, the authors derived a behaviorally anchored assessment tool.

Social Determinants of Health: A Missing Link in Emergency Medicine Training.

The health of a population depends upon several factors, including disease, public health initiatives, and the social determinants of health (SDH). These factors often converge in the emergency department (ED) where the impact of social conditions such as homelessness, low-literacy, and poverty lead to recidivism and may contribute to provider burnout. Inclusion of SDH topics in EM residency curricula can provide needed background information and effective strategies for coping with these patients in the clinical setting.

Self-reported evaluation of competencies and attitudes by physicians-in-training before and after a single day legislative advocacy experience.

Background: Advocacy is increasingly being recognized as a core element of medical professionalism and efforts are underway to incorporate advocacy training into graduate and undergraduate medical school curricula. While limited data exist to quantify physician attitudes toward advocacy, even less has been done to assess the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of future physicians. The purpose of this study was to assess students' experiences and attitudes toward legislative advocacy, cutting out using a convience sample.

Neurocognitive function of emergency department patients with mild traumatic brain injury.

Study Objective: We characterize the neurocognitive function of patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with mild traumatic brain injury.

Methods: This prospective study took place at an urban, academic ED and Level I trauma center. Case patients consisted of a convenience sample of ED patients aged 18 to 59 years, presenting to the ED with mild traumatic brain injury and having a head computed tomography scan without traumatic abnormalities.