Partnering With Residents on the Redesign of the Internal Medicine Resident Self-Evaluation Form.

Introduction: The positive impact of resident-driven synthesis of assessment data has been associated with increased intrinsic motivation to learn and create an individualized strategy to improve performance. The objective of the study was to incorporate residents' recommendations for restructuring the self-assessment metric into a tool that will promote a well-organized and effective self-improvement plan.

Materials And Methods: Residents and faculty collaborated on pre- and post-intervention questionnaires to assess the barriers to the timely completion of the current self-evaluation form and gather information on the tool's ability to stimulate the formation of concrete goals.

Egg Consumption in the Context of Plant-Based Diets and Diet Quality in Adults at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Single Blind Cross-over Controlled Trial.

Lifestyle changes that emphasis on plant-based diets (PBD) are typically recommended for those at risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) to mitigate their cardo-metabolic risk. We examined the impact of the inclusion of eggs compared with their exclusion from PBD on diet quality among adults at risk for T2DM. This was a randomized, controlled, single-blind, crossover trial of 35 adults (mean age 60.

Sociodemographic characteristics associated with hepatitis C among patients admitted for medically managed opioid withdrawal in east Tennessee.

Background: While Opioid use disorder (OUD)-related mortality is epidemic in the United States, regions like Appalachia are disproportionately affected. Moreover, a dual epidemic of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections and OUD-related admissions has been observed.

Objective: To evaluate sociodemographic characteristics of opioid-dependent patients admitted for medically managed withdrawal in East Tennessee and compare those with and without HCV.

Impact of Preoperative Lymphopenia on Survival Following Left Ventricular Assist Device Placement.

Lymphopenia has been implicated in poor outcomes in the heart failure population. However, the prognostic implication of lymphopenia in left ventricular assist device (LVAD) patients is unknown. We examine the impact of lymphopenia on all-cause mortality in this population over a 24-month period post-implantation.