Stethopedia: an e-learning resource for medical students to supplement Canadian clinical skills education.

Online clinical skills videos can supplement teaching and allow for greater flexibility when learning physical examination skills. There are currently few open access clinical skills video resources available for Canadian medical students. Stethopedia is an easy-to-use, open-access library of clinical skills teaching videos based on the Canadian medical curriculum.

Plasma Carotenoids and Premenstrual Symptoms in a Multi-Ethnic Population of Young Women.

Premenstrual symptoms are experienced by most women of reproductive age, but effective therapies are limited. Carotenoids may have an attenuating effect on premenstrual symptoms; however, studies to date are equivocal. The objective of the present study was to examine the association between plasma concentrations of seven carotenoids and premenstrual symptom severity in 553 women from the Toronto Nutrigenomics and Health study.

Identifying the gap in clinical skills: a pilot study investigating the use of clinical respiratory examination skills in practice.

There is a paucity of literature that explores whether students use clinical skills learned during medical school in practice. The study aimed to report on the most clinically relevant examination skills to focus on and increase student preparedness for clinical practice. We disseminated a 10-minute online anonymised survey to residents and physicians using an open recruitment strategy with convenience and snowball sampling.

Association of Thoracic Computed Tomographic Measurements and Outcomes in Patients with Hematologic Malignancies Requiring Mechanical Ventilation.

Patients with hematologic malignancies requiring mechanical ventilation have historically experienced poor outcomes. We aimed to determine whether body composition characteristics derived from thoracic computed tomographic (CT) imaging were associated with time to liberation from mechanical ventilation. We evaluated mechanically ventilated patients with hematological malignancies admitted between 2014 and 2018.