Two Novel Urban Health Primary Care Residency Tracks That Focus On Community-Level Structural Vulnerabilities.

Background: Although residency programs are well situated for developing a physician workforce with knowledge, skills, and attitudes that incorporate the strengths and reflect the priorities of community organizations, few curricula explicitly do so.

Aim: To develop urban health primary care tracks for internal medicine and combined internal medicine-pediatrics residents.

Setting: Academic hospital, community health center, and community-based organizations.

Association of NTproBNP and cTnI with outpatient sudden cardiac death in hemodialysis patients: the Choices for Healthy Outcomes in Caring for ESRD (CHOICE) study.

Background: Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is the most common etiology of death in hemodialysis patients but not much is known about its risk factors. The goal of our study was to determine the association and risk prediction of SCD by serum N-terminal prohormone of brain natriuretic peptide (NTproBNP) troponin I (cTnI) in hemodialysis patients.

Methods: We measured NTproBNP and cTnI in 503 hemodialysis patients of a national prospective cohort study.