Curriculum Innovations: Enhancing Medical Student Neuroscience Training With a Team-Based Learning Curriculum.

Background And Problem Statement: Neurophobia, the fear of, discomfort with, and dislike of clinical neurology, is frequently due to poor experiences in preclinical neuroscience education among medical providers. We developed, implemented, and assessed a curricular innovation using clinician-educators and team-based learning (TBL) with the goals to demonstrate clinical relevance in neuropathology, enhance student engagement in neuropathology education, and promote direct application of knowledge.

Methods And Curriculum Description: We identified an underperforming neuropathology curriculum within the second-year medical student neuroscience course at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry and implemented a traditional TBL curriculum to deliver this content.

Virtual Adaptation of an International Exchange Program in Medical Education.

Medical education has drastically transformed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Measures such as adopting telemedicine visits, minimizing the number of trainees on service, discontinuing external rotations, and converting in-person to online didactics have been broadly and swiftly implemented. While these innovations have promoted greater interconnectivity amongst institutions and made continuing medical education possible, international exchange programs in medical education are still largely disrupted.

Neurological Prognostic Factors in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19.

We aimed to search whether neurological symptoms or signs (NSS) and the MEWS (Modified Early Warning Score) score were associated with in-hospital mortality or oxygen requirement during the first 14 days of hospitalization in COVID-19 patients recruited at the University Hospital in Krakow, Poland. The detailed clinical questionnaires on twenty NSS were either filled out by patients prospectively or retrospectively assessed by neurologists based on daily medical records. NSS were considered high or low-risk if they were associated with increased or decreased mortality in the univariable analysis.

You never forget your first? Impact of interview timing on institutional rank order.

Objective: To analyze the impact of interview date on the applicant rank for Neurology residencies in the United States.

Methods: A multi-institutional retrospective review of interview dates and applicant rank list data for the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) was conducted for five Neurology programs, totaling 1932 interviewed applicants over a combined total of 31 interview years. For each candidate, the interview date and applicant rank were abstracted along with the total number of interviews for that season.