An exploratory study on microaggressions in medical school: What are they and why should we care?

Introduction: Microaggressions and their impact have been documented in minority college students; however, little is known about the experience of medical students. This study reports the prevalence and understanding of microaggressions among medical students at the University of Florida College of Medicine (UFCOM), while gaining insights into experiences of medical students dealing with microaggressions.

Method: A nine-question survey was sent out to all medical students at the UFCOM in the spring of 2017 to understand their experiences with microaggressions.

Online Faculty Development for Implementation and Use of Student Portfolios.

Introduction: Over the past decade, portfolios have gained popularity in medical education as tools to evaluate and provide feedback about learning and completion of professionally authentic tasks. Though faculty development has been noted to be key for successful portfolios, there are few available resources. As part of an interinstitutional collaborative project, we have developed online faculty development modules that provide pedagogical information about portfolios, practical advice, and resources from the available literature.

Status of portfolios in undergraduate medical education in the LCME accredited US medical school.

Aim: We sought to investigate the number of US medical schools utilizing portfolios, the format of portfolios, information technology (IT) innovations, purpose of portfolios and their ability to engage faculty and students.

Methods: A 21-question survey regarding portfolios was sent to the 141 LCME-accredited, US medical schools. The response rate was 50% (71/141); 47% of respondents (33/71) reported that their medical school used portfolios in some form.

Pediatric residents' learning styles and temperaments and their relationships to standardized test scores.

Background: Board certification is an important professional qualification and a prerequisite for credentialing, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) assesses board certification rates as a component of residency program effectiveness. To date, research has shown that preresidency measures, including National Board of Medical Examiners scores, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society membership, or medical school grades poorly predict postresidency board examination scores. However, learning styles and temperament have been identified as factors that 5 affect test-taking performance.

Family-centered rounds and medical student education: a qualitative examination of students' perceptions.

Background: Although current literature supports the benefits of family-centered rounds on medical education, few studies have explored students' perceptions of family-centered rounds.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to provide a better and broader understanding of the effect of family-centered rounds on medical student education.

Methods: During the inpatient portion of the third-year pediatric clerkship at a southeastern United States 4-year medical school, students were exposed to family-centered and conference room work rounds and completed a post-hoc reflective open-ended questionnaire.

Risk and promotive factors in families, schools, and communities: a contextual model of positive youth development in adolescence.

Objective: Emerging evidence about optimal youth development highlights the importance of both reducing negative behavior and promoting positive behavior. In our study we tested a contextual model derived from positive youth-development theory by examining the association of family, school, and community risk and promotive factors, with several outcome indices of both positive and negative adolescent development.

Methods: A sample of 42305 adolescents aged 11 to 17 (51% girls) was drawn from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health.

Training school nurses: screening and brief intervention for tobacco use.

This field project focused on training school nurses to do screening and brief interventions for tobacco use. Needed resources were organized in a kit.

The impact of community risks and resources on adolescent risky behavior and health care expenditures.

Purpose: To examine a nested model that predicts adolescent risky behavior, health care use, and health care expenditures from individual characteristics, such as age and gender, and community characteristics such as social capital and community-level risky behavior rates.

Methods: Claims and encounter data were used to classify adolescents enrolled in Florida's Healthy Kids Program into two groups: those who engaged in risky behavior (ARB) and those who did not (NRB). Hierarchical linear modeling techniques were used to predict the odds of risky behavior, the odds of health care use, and health care expenditures based on individual and community characteristics.