Developing Competencies and Milestones: Putting the Pieces Together for Student Success.

Competency-based medical education has become a means in physician assistant (PA) education to ensure learner readiness for practice; align educational expectations; and assess knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Competency-based education may also serve to meet accreditation requirements. Creating program-defined competencies and associated milestones can help a PA program align with their mission and vision, developmentally guide learners through the curriculum, and ensure program assessments measure the tasks required of practice-ready graduates.

Locking versus nonlocking plates for the treatment of posterior malleolar ankle fractures: A retrospective cohort study and cost analysis.

Background: We hypothesized that, as posterior malleolar ankle fractures usually present one or two main fragments, the buttress plating principle can be successfully achieved either with conventional nonlocking or anatomic locking posterior tibia plates, and no clinical differences should be found. The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of posterior malleolar ankle (PM) fractures treated with conventional nonlocking (CNP) or anatomic locking plates (ALP), and also to compare both constructs in terms of crude costs.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was designed.