Primary care providers perform more neurologic visits than neurologists among Medicare beneficiaries.

Rationale, Aims And Objectives: Little is known about which medical providers, other than neurologists, are involved in the care of neurologic conditions. We aimed to describe the current distribution of outpatient neurologic care by provider type.

Methods: We conducted a restrospective, cross-sectional analysis using a 20% national sample claims database that contains information on medical care utilizations from adult Fee-for-Service Medicare beneficiaries in 2015.

Competency Committees in Undergraduate Medical Education: Approaching Tensions Using a Polarity Management Framework.

Implementing competency-based medical education in undergraduate medical education (UME) poses similar and unique challenges to doing so in graduate medical education (GME). To ensure that all medical students achieve competency, educators must make certain that the structures and processes to assess that competency are systematic and rigorous. In GME, one such key structure is the clinical competency committee.

Reach Out Churches: A Community-Based Participatory Research Pilot Trial to Assess the Feasibility of a Mobile Health Technology Intervention to Reduce Blood Pressure Among African Americans.

Innovative strategies are needed to reduce the hypertension epidemic among African Americans. Reach Out was a faith-collaborative, mobile health, randomized, pilot intervention trial of four mobile health components to reduce high blood pressure (BP) compared to usual care. It was designed and tested within a community-based participatory research framework among African Americans recruited and randomized from churches in Flint, Michigan.

Evaluating a Hospitalist-Based Intervention to Decrease Unnecessary Antimicrobial Use in Patients With Asymptomatic Bacteriuria.

OBJECTIVE Inappropriate treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) in the hospital setting is common. We sought to evaluate the treatment rate of ASB at the 3 hospitals and assess the impact of a hospitalist-focused improvement intervention. DESIGN Prospective, interventional trial.

Effect of Doximity Residency Rankings on Residency Applicants' Program Choices.

Introduction: Choosing a residency program is a stressful and important decision. Doximity released residency program rankings by specialty in September 2014. This study sought to investigate the impact of those rankings on residency application choices made by fourth year medical students.