Women faculty members' challenges when pursuing leadership positions in academic dentistry: A survey.

Purpose/objectives: This study addresses persistent gender disparities in leadership roles in academic dentistry. The objectives were to identify the challenges and barriers to leadership that women face in general and during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as to describe resources they need to reach their leadership potential.

Methods: The American Dental Education Association Section on Women in Leadership (WIL), gathered survey data concerning leadership challenges and faculty development needs.

Variability of urban drainage area delineation and runoff calculation with topographic resolution and rainfall volume.

Designing green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) requires an accurate estimate of the contributing drainage area and a model for runoff generation. We examined some factors that add to the uncertainty associated with these two design steps in the urban environment. Delineated drainage areas at five GSI sites in southeastern Pennsylvania (PA) were compared for digital elevation model (DEM) resolutions (grid cell sizes) ranging from 8 to 300 cm.

Proactive Coaching in General Surgery Internship: Incorporating Well-being Practices into Resident Professional Life.

Objective: Coaching can provide learners with space to reflect on their performance while ensuring well-being and encouraging professional achievement and personal satisfaction outside of traditional mentorship and teaching models. We hypothesized that a proactive coaching program for general surgery interns coupled with individualized learning plans would help build foundational skills necessary for residency success and facilitate the incorporation of well-being practices into resident professional life. Here, we present the development, implementation, and outcomes of a novel well-being coaching program for surgical interns.

Executive Function as a Risk Factor for Incisor Trauma.

Background/aim: Executive function is the ability to guide behavior to achieve goals or complete tasks. This study explored the relationship between executive function, as assessed by the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function Parent Form Questionnaire (BRIEF ) and incisor trauma.

Material And Methods: This study included children in the mixed dentition with recent incisor trauma (n=28) and a control group (n=30) without recent incisor trauma.

Robot-assisted approach to 'W'-configuration urinary diversion: a step-by-step technique.

Objective: To describe a detailed step-by-step approach of our technique for robot-assisted intracorporeal 'W'-configuration orthotopic ileal neobladder.

Patients And Methods: Five patients underwent robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC), extended pelvic lymph node dissection and intracorporeal neobladder (ICNB). ICNB was divided into six key steps to facilitate and enable a detailed analysis and auditing of the technique.

Perceptual training yields rapid improvements in visually impaired youth.

Visual function demands coordinated responses to information over a wide field of view, involving both central and peripheral vision. Visually impaired individuals often seem to underutilize peripheral vision, even in absence of obvious peripheral deficits. Motivated by perceptual training studies with typically sighted adults, we examined the effectiveness of perceptual training in improving peripheral perception of visually impaired youth.

ΔNp63 regulates IL-33 and IL-31 signaling in atopic dermatitis.

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is the most common inflammatory skin disease with no well-delineated cause or effective cure. Here we show that the p53 family member p63, specifically the ΔNp63, isoform has a key role in driving keratinocyte activation in AD. We find that overexpression of ΔNp63 in transgenic mouse epidermis results in a severe skin phenotype that shares many of the key clinical, histological and molecular features associated with human AD.

Geophysical and Hydrologic Studies of Lake Seepage Variability.

Variations in lake seepage were studied along a 130 m shoreline of Mirror Lake NH. Seepage was downward from the lake to groundwater; rates measured from 28 seepage meters varied from 0 to -282 cm/d. Causes of this variation were investigated using electrical resistivity surveys and lakebed sediment characterization.

Surgical competency for urethrovesical anastomosis during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: development and validation of the robotic anastomosis competency evaluation.

Objective: To develop and validate an assessment tool for the performance of urethrovesical anastomosis (UVA).

Methods: A multicenter, prospective, observational study was conducted in 2 phases. Phase 1, development and content validation, used a panel of 5 experienced robotic surgeons to develop a 6-domain scoring system, Robotic Anastomosis Competence Evaluation (RACE), to assess technical skills for performing UVA.

Tips and tricks to robot-assisted radical cystectomy and intracorporeal diversion.

Purpose Of Review: To summarize the fundamental principles for technique of robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) based on current peer reviewed literature. Also provide most recent evidence for the efficacy of RARC and Intracorporeal Ileal Conduit (ICIC).

Recent Findings: Technical tricks have increased the efficiency of RARC and ICIC diversion.

Freeze core sampling to validate time-lapse resistivity monitoring of the hyporheic zone.

A freeze core sampler was used to characterize hyporheic zone storage during a stream tracer test. The pore water from the frozen core showed tracer lingered in the hyporheic zone after the tracer had returned to background concentration in collocated well samples. These results confirmed evidence of lingering subsurface tracer seen in time-lapse electrical resistivity tomographs.

Novel knot tying technique for robot-assisted surgery.

Robot-assisted surgery has seen significant advancements in recent years, with dedicated training opportunities to acquire adequate skills. With improved degree of rotation and movement offered by the robot arm, newer techniques of knot tying need to be developed. Here we present a novel method of knot tying to help place a secure knot, especially with short suture length.

Peripheral vision of youths with low vision: motion perception, crowding, and visual search.

Purpose: Effects of low vision on peripheral visual function are poorly understood, especially in children whose visual skills are still developing. The aim of this study was to measure both central and peripheral visual functions in youths with typical and low vision. Of specific interest was the extent to which measures of foveal function predict performance of peripheral tasks.

Integrating addiction medicine into graduate medical education in primary care: the time has come.

Substance use disorders create an enormous burden of medical, behavioral, and social problems and pose a major and costly public health challenge. Despite the high prevalence of substance use and its consequences, physicians often do not recognize these conditions and, as a result, provide inadequate patient care. At the center of this failure is insufficient training for physicians about substance use disorders.

Jumpstarting Academic Careers: A Workshop and Tools for Career Development in Anesthesiology.

Context: Career development is essential and has the potential to assist in building a sustained faculty within academic departments of Anesthesiology. Career development is essential for growth in academic medicine. Close attention to the details involved in career management, goal setting as part of career planning, and professional networking are key elements.

The development of a comprehensive school-wide simulation-based procedural skills curriculum for medical students.

Objective: The purpose of this project was to assess the effectiveness of using the Delphi process to create a structured simulation-based procedural skills curriculum for all students at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (KSOM).

Methods: The Delphi process was used to develop a list of procedural skills that students are expected to perform competently prior to graduation. Once consensus of faculty was reached, a needs assessment was performed to poll graduating seniors' experience performing each skill.

A "medical student practice profile" as the foundation for a case-based curriculum revision.

Background: In 2001, the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California initiated a major curriculum reform with fully integrated teaching of the basic sciences.

Description: The new curriculum integrated a set of selected clinical cases called the student practice profile (SPP). The SPP cases were designed to (a) define the core target knowledge base and essential clinical experience of all graduating students, (b) to improve the relevance of basic science teaching, and (c) to serve as the overarching organizational structure for the 4-year curriculum.

How to write a scholarly book review for publication in a peer-reviewed journal: a review of the literature.

Purpose: To describe and discuss the processes used to write scholarly book reviews for publication in peer-reviewed journals and to provide a recommended strategy and book appraisal worksheet to use when conducting book reviews.

Methods: A literature search of MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and the Index to Chiropractic Literature was conducted in June 2009 using a combination of controlled vocabulary and truncated text words to capture articles relevant to writing scholarly book reviews for publication in peer-reviewed journals.

Results: The initial search identified 839 citations.

Robot-assisted intracorporeal ileal conduit: Marionette technique and initial experience at Roswell Park Cancer Institute.

Objectives: To present our technique and initial experience with patients who underwent robot-assisted intracorporeal creation of ileal conduit and to compare them with patients who underwent extracorporeal ileal diversion after robot-assisted radical cystectomy.

Methods: Twenty-six patients diagnosed with invasive transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder underwent a robot-assisted radical cystectomy with bilateral extended pelvic lymphadenectomy with ileal conduit diversion. Total intracorporeal ileal conduit creation was performed in the last 13 patients.

Using the Affective Domain to Enhance Teaching of the ACGME Competencies in Anesthesiology Training.

Teaching and assessing the advanced competencies will continue to be a challenge. Incorporating new and nontraditional skills into an already complex and challenging clinical curriculum and practice is not easy. This makes development of methods for curricular design, teaching and assessment of anesthesiology resident and fellow performance essential.

Shaping professionalism in pre-clinical medical students: Professionalism and the practice of medicine.

Background: Increasing emphasis is placed on teaching and assessment of professionalism in the continuum of medical education. Consistent and longitudinal instruction and assessment are crucial factors that learners need in order to internalize the tenets of professionalism.

Aim: We aimed to develop a novel longitudinal course in professionalism spanning the first 2 years in a medical curriculum.

Spatial and temporal limits of motion perception across variations in speed, eccentricity, and low vision.

We evaluated spatial displacement and temporal duration thresholds for discriminating the motion direction of gratings for a broad range of speeds (0.06 degrees/s to 30 degrees/s) in fovea and at +/-30 degrees eccentricity. In general, increased speed yielded lower duration thresholds but higher displacement thresholds.