Publications by authors named "R C Fleischman"
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- The study examines the relationship between residency application data and the subsequent performance of surgical graduates, focusing on traits like surgical judgment, leadership, and medical knowledge.
- Despite evaluating 258 graduates and various factors such as USMLE scores and clerkship honors, the findings reveal only weak associations with overall performance ratings.
- Ultimately, the research concludes that the analyzed preresidency variables do not effectively predict residency graduate performance, suggesting a disconnect between application data and actual performance in residency.
Importance: It is uncertain whether current measures of achievement during medical school predict exceptional performance during surgical residency. One surrogate of excellence during residency may be awards, especially those given for teaching and annual overall accomplishment.
Objective: Determine whether markers of superior performance during medical school documented in the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) application and student record correlated with receiving awards during residency.
Objectives: Boarding of adolescent patients with mental health concerns requiring ongoing observation and treatment is of increasing concern across US emergency departments. The objective was a proof of concept of developing an adolescent psychiatric emergency unit and assessment of the impact of this unit on lengths of stay (LOS).
Methods: We describe the creation of the unit designed to allow safe assessment and boarding of patients, and appropriate interventions and services, while arranging transfer to inpatient facility or safe discharge home.
Background: Patients with limited English proficiency seen in the emergency department (ED) experience lower quality of care and higher diagnostic resource utilization unless they are evaluated in their own language. Despite a low rate of serious pathology identified and the availability of guidelines to direct its use, computed tomography (CT) is commonly used to evaluate atraumatic headache in the ED.
Objective: Our aim was to determine whether Spanish-speaking patients with atraumatic headache were more likely than their English-speaking counterparts to undergo head CT, and whether evaluation by a clinician who passed a Spanish proficiency test mitigated this difference.
Objective: To determine whether participation in certain hobbies (e.g., participation in sports, playing musical instruments, or other hobbies requiring fine motor skills), preresidency, are associated with higher technical skills ratings at the time of residency graduation.
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