Towards a National System-Level Intervention: Characterization of Burnout Among Trainees of Saudi Postgraduate Healthcare Professions Programs.

Background/objectives: High levels of burnout among healthcare professionals and trainees represent a global problem with identified profound impacts. The collection of national data for better characterization of this problem can guide more needs-sensitive targeted interventions. We aimed to identify the prevalence of burnout, the associated factors, and their impacts among trainees of Saudi postgraduate healthcare professions training programs.

More intelligent faculty development: Integrating GenAI in curriculum development programs.

Educational Challenge: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has rapidly emerged as a potentially transformative tool in education. Faculty development (FD) programs, particularly in curriculum development (CD), are ideal settings for incorporating GenAI to benefit faculty and their learners. However, concerns about accuracy, bias, and ethical implications necessitate structured and responsible integration.

Boosting Confidence and Skills: A Multidisciplinary Evaluation of an Emergency Department-Based Procedure Team Rotation.

Introduction: Emergency Medicine (EM) residency programs aim to ensure residents' proficiency in performing invasive procedures. Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) introduced an interdepartmental "Procedure Team'' to increase senior EM residents' exposure to such procedures. This study aims to evaluate the Procedure Team rotation's perceived effectiveness by assessing EM residents' improvement in comfort levels in performing procedures, EM attendings' perceptions of the curriculum's effectiveness in improving procedural and communication skills, and internal medicine (IM) resident feedback.

Singapore's COVID-19 Genomic Surveillance Programme: Strategies and Insights From a Pandemic Year.

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, genomic surveillance was crucial for monitoring virus spread and identifying variants. Effective surveillance helped understand transmission dynamics. Singapore had success in combating COVID-19 through its surveillance programmes.

Electrochemical Investigation of the Oxidation of Phenolic Compounds Using Hypervalent Iodine Oxidants.

The chemical oxidation of simple phenolic compounds by the hypervalent iodine reagent [hydroxy(tosyloxy)iodo]benzene (HTIB) was investigated using electrochemical and spectroscopic methods. HTIB oxidized phenol and benzenediol isomers hydroquinone (HQ), catechol, and resorcinol to form various quinone structures. HQ and catechol, two compounds that show reversible electrochemical behavior, exhibited simple oxidative chemistry to their respective quinone structures that could be electrochemically reduced at a glassy carbon electrode.