The Experience of Medical Scribing: No Disparities Identified.

Introduction: The chronic failure to significantly increase the number of underrepresented minorities (URM) in medicine requires that we look for new mechanisms for channelling URM students through pre-medical education and into medical school. One potential mechanism is medical scribing, which involves a person helping a physician engage in real-time documentation in the electronic medical record.

Methods: As a precursor to evaluating this mechanism, this survey pilot study explored individuals' experiences working as a medical scribe to look for any differences related to URM status.

The Depiction of Autonomy and Shared Decision-Making by Children and Adolescents in Medical Television.

Background Many studies have shown the importance of patient autonomy and shared decision-making in medical treatment. However, television (TV) depiction of medicine continues to present a skewed depiction of healthcare and its effects. This has been observed in adult patients but little has been studied in the pediatric population.

An Unusual Case of Isolated Pancreatitis Secondary to Blunt Abdominal Trauma.

Acute pancreatitis is an inflammatory condition affecting a large population and resulting in one of the most common causes of gastrointestinal hospitalizations in the United States. The pathogenesis resulting in pancreatic injury has multiple etiologies with gallstones and alcohol consumption contributing to a large majority of cases. Consequently, one uncommon cause of acute pancreatitis, direct abdominal trauma, often gets overlooked.

The Scribe Effect: the Impact of a Pre-matriculation Experience on Subsequent Medical School Education.

Medical scribes have been utilized since the 1970s but have been in ever-increasing demand over the past 25 years. The reasons for this growth have been well documented, with positive impacts on provider well-being, patient satisfaction, clinical efficiency, and revenue generation. Many aspiring healthcare providers become medical scribes during or immediately after college, believing it will provide them with helpful experience and increase their chances of gaining entrance into medical education.

Sex differences in the expression of lung inflammatory mediators in response to ozone.

Sex differences in the incidence of respiratory diseases have been reported. Women are more susceptible to inflammatory lung disease induced by air pollution and show worse adverse pulmonary health outcomes than men. However, the mechanisms underlying these differences remain unknown.