Quality Control for Residency Applicant Scores.

Background: The residency program selection process incorporates application review and candidate interviews to create an ordered rank list. Though this is the single most important process for determining the department's future trainees, the system lacks a quality control mechanism by which faculty ratings are scrutinized. This study used many-facet Rasch measurement (MFRM) to establish a quality control system for the candidate selection process.

Recruitment and retention of under-represented groups with health disparities into clinical trials: a formative approach.

We evaluated the perceived success of recruitment and retention protocols for Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander/Filipino populations. These three groups were found to have a significantly higher incidence of health disparities than the general population. Training applications of selected vignettes were also generated.

Altered membrane structure and surface potential in homozygous hemoglobin C erythrocytes.

Background: Hemoglobin C differs from normal hemoglobin A by a glutamate-to-lysine substitution at position 6 of beta globin and is oxidatively unstable. Compared to homozygous AA erythrocytes, homozygous CC erythrocytes contain higher levels of membrane-associated hemichromes and more extensively clustered band 3 proteins. These findings suggest that CC erythrocytes have a different membrane matrix than AA erythrocytes.