"Bridging The Gap" Medical Degree Preparatory Program (EMDP2) Military Students Provide Leadership and Mentorship to Classmates.

Introduction: The lack of adequate diverse representation (racially, socioeconomically, gender, second career applicants, student parents, etc.) within secondary education in the United States has proven to be a challenging and complex, multifaceted problem, and despite ongoing efforts, one that continues to remain unsolved. These disparities are well known and documented at all levels of education.

The Romance of the Republic: Class Conflict and the Problem of Progress in Thomas Arnold's (1838-42).

This article repositions Thomas Arnold as a major nineteenth-century historian through an analysis of his most important work, the History of Rome (1838-42). While scholars have focused primarily on Arnold's role as headmaster of Rugby School and Liberal Anglican theologian, I examine his historical contribution in the context of the Romantic movement. Building on the work of B.

Medical Student Experiences in Operation Bushmaster 2019: "I Now See Myself as Equal Parts Physician and Leader.".

Introduction: Operation Bushmaster, a 5-day high-fidelity medical practicum bringing together fourth-year medical students, graduate nursing students, international students, and physicians and other medical professionals in emergency and operational medicine from across the world, is the capstone event of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences's Military Unique Curriculum. It is designed to simultaneously test students' medical knowledge, leadership skills, and grace under fire. For many students, this experience represents one of the first times that they concurrently inhabit the dual roles of military officer and (soon-to-be) physician.

Learning Beyond the Basics of Cadaveric Dissection: a Qualitative Analysis of Non-academic Learning in Anatomy Education.

Rapidly advancing technologies have undeniably altered how medical education is taught; the anatomy lab is no exception. With a recent shift away from traditional cadaveric dissection and towards technology-based learning methods, medical educators are left wondering what students learn beyond the basics of anatomy during their course of human dissection. Especially considering the recent dramatic changes to the way medical education is conducted in the new era of a global pandemic, we must ensure students are not missing learning experiences that are critical to their development as future physicians.

From College Graduate to Physician: Professional Identity Formation.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. A newly matriculated medical student must transition from college student to physician in four short years.

"It's Okay to Say 'I Don't Know'": Medical Students Use Transformative Thinking to Cope with Ambiguity and Uncertainty.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Uncertainty refers to the internal tension of not fully knowing or understanding a situation and is a concept that physicians must learn to deal with in order to become an effective provider.

Threshold Concepts in a Literary Magazine Produced by Health Care Students.

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Ventral mandibulectomy for removal of oral tumours in the dog: Surgical technique and results in 19 cases.

The purpose of this retrospective study is to describe in detail a novel ventral approach for mandibulectomy and the results in 19 dogs. The medical records of 19 dogs that received a partial or total unilateral mandibulectomy with the new ventral approach were reviewed. Information obtained included signalment, tumour type, extent of mandibulectomy, removal of regional lymph nodes, intrasurgical complications, immediate postoperative complications, histopathological diagnosis and study of margins.

Threshold Concepts in Medical Education.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. - The theory of Threshold Concepts (TC) proposes that there are ideas necessary for a student to learn which enable them to think like a professional.

Androgens trigger different growth responses in genetically identical human hair follicles in organ culture that reflect their epigenetic diversity in life.

Male sex hormones-androgens-regulate male physique development. Without androgen signaling, genetic males appear female. During puberty, increasing androgens harness the hair follicle's unique regenerative ability to replace many tiny vellus hairs with larger, darker terminal hairs ( e.

Defining Medical Professionalism Across the Years of Training and Experience at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Background: Many medical institutions have moved forward with curricular objectives aimed at teaching professionalism, but the question remains: are we teaching the most appropriate content at the most opportune times to maximize sustained learning? The students' point of view of professionalism is helpful in addressing this question.

Aim: To describe the views of professionalism held by students and faculty at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

Methods: In e-mailed surveys, students and faculty free-texted the three most important characteristics of a professional.

Pubectomy and stereotactic radiotherapy for the treatment of a non-resectable sacral osteosarcoma causing pelvic canal obstruction in a dog.

A pubectomy was carried out to relieve obstruction of the pelvic canal in a 6-year-old dog diagnosed with sacral osteosarcoma. Two days after surgery, the dog was ambulatory with normal urination and defecation. Pubectomy is a viable option to relieve clinical signs in patients with pelvic canal obstruction due to a non-resectable tumor.

Hypertrophic osteopathy associated with hepatocellular carcinoma in a dog.

A 9-year-old spayed female dog diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma and hypertrophic osteopathy was negative for additional lesions on computed tomography of the thorax and abdomen. Resection of the affected liver lobe resulted in resolution of clinical signs. This is the first case of hypertrophic osteopathy secondary to hepatocellular carcinoma.

The prostamide-related glaucoma therapy, bimatoprost, offers a novel approach for treating scalp alopecias.

Balding causes widespread psychological distress but is poorly controlled. The commonest treatment, minoxidil, was originally an antihypertensive drug that promoted unwanted hair. We hypothesized that another serendipitous discovery, increased eyelash growth side-effects of prostamide F(2α)-related eyedrops for glaucoma, may be relevant for scalp alopecias.

Physiological regeneration of skin appendages and implications for regenerative medicine.

The concept of regenerative medicine is relatively new, but animals are well known to remake their hair and feathers regularly by normal regenerative physiological processes. Here, we focus on 1) how extrafollicular environments can regulate hair and feather stem cell activities and 2) how different configurations of stem cells can shape organ forms in different body regions to fulfill changing physiological needs.

Nurses' perceptions and experiences with end-of-life communication and care.

Purpose/objectives: To characterize oncology nurses' attitudes toward care at the end of life (EOL) and their experiences in caring for terminally ill patients, hospice discussions with patients and families, and the use of palliative care practices.

Design: Descriptive correlational survey study.

Setting: A Magnet®-designated hospital in southern California with more than 500 beds.

Prevalence of life-threatening conditions in children.

Objective: We estimated the prevalence of children with life-threatening conditions (LTC) cared for in the military health system (MHS) in response to a Congressional inquiry and to inform program planning.

Methods: We developed a case definition of LTC, using the concept ''death trajectory''(1,2) to define our cases. We conducted an unduplicated count of children with LTC in the MHS database during FY 2001/FY 2002 using selected ICD-9 codes based on our case definition.

Intermediate hair follicles: a new more clinically relevant model for hair growth investigations.

Background: Alopecia causes widespread psychological distress, but is relatively poorly controlled. The development of new treatments is hampered by the lack of suitable human hair follicle models. Although intermediate and vellus hair follicles are the main clinical targets for pharmacological therapy, terminal hair follicles are more frequently studied as smaller hair follicles are more difficult to obtain.