Using contact-based education to destigmatize opioid use disorder among medical students.

All first- and second-year (i.e., pre-clinical) medical students at a large, Midwestern medical school with three campuses were invited to participate in a two-arm, parallel educational study comparing the efficacy of two types of curricular interventions.

Influence of Future Prescribers' Personal and Clinical Experiences With Opioids on Plans to Treat Patients With Opioid Use Disorder.

Context: Recreational use of opioids is a growing problem in the United States, particularly in the Midwest. Educators have called for inclusion of pain- and opioid-specific courses in health professional school curricula, yet more research is needed to address future prescribers' beliefs, experiences, and postgraduate plans related to opioids.

Objective: To examine health professional students' perceived severity of the opioid crisis and opioid-related beliefs, experiences, and postgraduate plans.

A "U-shaped" Curve: Appreciating How Primary Care Residency Intention Relates to the Cost of Board Preparation and Examination.

Introduction: The shortage of primary care physicians in the United States has warranted an investigation into how medical education debt and other factors influence medical students' interests in primary care (PC) residencies. However, sparse research has studied how the cost of board preparation and examination relates to career choice. The objective of this study was to determine if there is an association between the cost of preparing and sitting for board examinations and the intention to enter a PC residency for osteopathic medical students.

The Cost of Board Examination and Preparation: An Overlooked Factor in Medical Student Debt.

Objective Board examinations in undergraduate medical education are imperative for competency assessment and a standard licensure process. While the cost of attendance and mean indebtedness of medical students have been quantified, the financial burden experienced by medical students from board preparation and examination has never been quantified. Materials and methods A total of 290 fourth-year osteopathic medical students from 38 osteopathic medical schools completed an anonymous survey that asked them to select the resources they had purchased for board preparation.

Measuring Medicaid Expansion's Impact on an Academic Medical Center's Emergency Department.

Medicaid expansion's impact has been studied on national and statewide levels with respect to the patient outcomes, access to health services and uncompensated care. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of the Medicaid expansion on an emergency department (ED) at a large, academic center by evaluating changes in total charges, services rendered, types of providers, number of visits, and length of stay. Findings from this study include more males frequenting the ED for health services and a bottleneck in operations with an average waiting time in the ED increasing by 17%.

Exploring the Associations Among Nutrition, Science, and Mathematics Knowledge for an Integrative, Food-Based Curriculum.

Background: Explore associations between nutrition, science, and mathematics knowledge to provide evidence that integrating food/nutrition education in the fourth-grade curriculum may support gains in academic knowledge.

Methods: Secondary analysis of a quasi-experimental study. Sample included 438 students in 34 fourth-grade classrooms across North Carolina and Ohio; mean age 10 years old; gender (I = 53.

Applying mathematical concepts with hands-on, food-based science curriculum.

This article addresses the current state of the mathematics education system in the United States and provides a possible solution to the contributing issues. As a result of lower performance in primary mathematics, American students are not acquiring the necessary quantitative literacy skills to become successful adults. This study analyzed the impact of the FoodMASTER Intermediate curriculum on fourth-grade student's mathematics knowledge.

Food-based Science Curriculum Increases 4 Graders Multidisciplinary Science Knowledge.

Health professionals and policymakers are asking educators to place more emphasis on food and nutrition education. Integrating these topics into science curricula using hand-on, food-based activities may strengthen students' understanding of science concepts. The Food, Math, and Science Teaching Enhancement Resource (FoodMASTER) Initiative is a compilation of programs aimed at using food as a tool to teach mathematics and science.

A survey study of occupational pain and injury in ophthalmic plastic surgeons.

Purpose: To determine factors associated with pain/injury related to practicing ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery.

Methods: A 29-question electronic survey was sent to the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery's listserv. The Chi-Squared Automatic Interaction Detector technique was used to generate a decision tree using SPSS software.

Causal factors implicated in research misconduct: evidence from ORI case files.

There has been relatively little empirical research into the causes of research misconduct. To begin to address this void, the authors collected data from closed case files of the Office of Research Integrity (ORI). These data were in the form of statements extracted from ORI file documents including transcripts, investigative reports, witness statements, and correspondence.

Absolute band counts in febrile infants: know your laboratory.

It was the impression of 1 of the authors that band counts in febrile infants < or =60 days of age were much higher as reported from the clinical laboratory at Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron, Ohio, than they had been at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York. Absolute band counts (ABC) from 119 febrile infants < or =60 days of age seen in the emergency department of Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron for whom blood culture results were known were obtained retrospectively and compared with results from a prospective study conducted in Rochester. In Akron, 45% of the infants had elevated band counts and 16% had no other risk factor for serious bacterial infection compared with 5.