Antimicrobial stewardship and education in optometry.

Clinical Relevance: Antimicrobial stewardship aims to improve how antibiotics are prescribed by clinicians and used by patients, to ensure safe appropriate use, and to prevent and contain antimicrobial resistance.

Background: Australian optometrists can prescribe a range of antimicrobial agents, but to what extent they consider antimicrobial stewardship is not known. This study evaluated what final-year optometry students and optometrists understood about antimicrobial stewardship in eye care and considered relevance to oral prescribing and education.

Understanding barriers, enablers and motivational factors for Australian healthcare educators teaching university students on clinical placement using the validated Physician Teaching Motivation Questionnaire.

Background: In Australia, university clinical programs rely heavily on external healthcare professionals to provide a range of authentic clinical training and professional development opportunities for students. There is, however, a limited understanding of the factors that motivate these professionals to be educators and whether this varies across different healthcare disciplines within Australia. As the demand for clinical placements continues to increase, it is critical for the ongoing success of these programs that universities identify both the barriers associated with teaching and the benefits that enhance job satisfaction.

Energy expenditure of international female rugby union players during a major international tournament: a doubly labelled water study.

The purpose of this study was to quantify the total energy expenditure (TEE) of international female rugby union players. Fifteen players were assessed over 14 days throughout an international multi-game tournament, which represented two consecutive one-match microcycles. Resting metabolic rate (RMR) and TEE were assessed by indirect calorimetry and doubly labelled water, respectively.

Ocular Biometry Percentile Curves and Their Relation to Myopia Development in Indian Children.

The aim of the present study was to provide ocular biometry percentile values for Indian children between the ages of 6 and 12 and to validate the usefulness of centiles in predicting myopia development. The study was part of a longitudinal study-the Sankara Nethralaya Tamil Nadu Essilor Myopia Study (STEM), where objective refraction and ocular biometry were measured for children studying in grades 1, 4, and 6 at baseline (2019-2020). These data were used to generate ocular biometry percentile curves (both for axial length (AL) and AL/corneal curvature (AL/CR) ratios).