Using an Adaptive Listening Tour and Survey to Promote Faculty Reflection on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the Pre-clinical Undergraduate Medical Curriculum.

Unlabelled: Descriptive studies regarding how to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into medical education are lacking. We utilized the AAMC's Key Steps for Assessing Institutional Culture and Climate framework to evaluate our current curriculum via listening tours ( = 34 participants) and a survey of the 10 pre-clinical block directors, to better understand the opportunities and challenges of improving DEI in the pre-clinical curriculum. Opportunities included diversifying cases and standardized patients, enhancing information on systemic racism and social determinants of health, and increasing racial humility and population genetics/epigenetics training.

Landscape of health sciences librarian-mediated search services.

Background: Health librarians have traditionally provided mediated searches to support patient care, education and research.

Objectives: This study aims to discover the types of search result formats used by health science libraries, determine current practice among health science libraries (types of requesters served, fees, deduplication, turnaround time and citation manager use) and uncover innovative methods for providing search results.

Methods: An online survey was distributed to the MEDLIB-L, ExpertSearching, MidContinental Chapter of the Medical Library Association and ICON listservs and through direct email to selected Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries reference and education librarians.

Reduced Seroma Risk in Drainless Abdominoplasty Using Running Barbed Sutures: A 10-Year, Multicenter Retrospective Analysis.

Background: Drains are still commonly inserted during abdominoplasties despite extensive evidence documenting the benefits of drainless procedures. Continued improvements in progressive tension suturing (PTS) techniques and suture technologies have consistently shown a reduced seroma risk profile that outperforms procedures involving surgical drains.

Objectives: The aim of this report was to assess the authors' combined patient series, which represents the largest and longest-running, retrospective, multicenter set of abdominoplasty patients treated with a PTS technique involving running barbed sutures.

Epigenetic modifications of human placenta associated with preterm birth: a systematic review.

Objective: Preterm birth (PTB) is one of the leading causes of neonatal mortality and morbidity around the world. Epigenetic alterations of the human placenta may be involved in the causal chain of adverse pregnancy outcomes specifically PTB. In this systematic review, we investigated whether epigenetic dysregulation of the human placenta is associated with PTB.

Gaps in affiliation indexing in Scopus and PubMed.

Objective: The authors sought to determine whether unexpected gaps existed in Scopus's author affiliation indexing of publications written by the University of Nebraska Medical Center or Nebraska Medicine (UNMC/NM) authors during 2014.

Methods: First, we compared Scopus affiliation identifier search results to PubMed affiliation keyword search results. Then, we searched Scopus using affiliation keywords (UNMC, etc.

Epigenetic dysregulation of Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-related genes and adverse pregnancy outcomes: a systematic review.

Objectives: Preterm birth (PTB), low birth weight (LBW) and small for gestational age (SGA) are leading causes of neonatal mortality and morbidity around the world. Epigenetic alterations of the human genome may be involved in the causal chain of adverse pregnancy outcomes. In this systematic review we investigated whether PTB, LBW and SGA are associated with epigenetic dysregulation of insulin-like growth factor-related genes (IGF).

Creating Interactive Online Instruction: The McGoogan Library Experience.

Online instruction is a hot topic at academic medical centers. Seizing the opportunity to join the online movement at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), the McGoogan Library created an open access course made up of six learning modules. The modules addressed three issues: 1) supplementing one-shot library instruction, 2) offering opportunity for instruction when a librarian is not embedded in a course, and 3) showcasing the library as an online instruction supporter.

Smallpox Vaccination of Laboratory Workers at US Variola Testing Sites.

To evaluate the need to revaccinate laboratory workers against smallpox, we assessed regular revaccination at the US Laboratory Response Network's variola testing sites by examining barriers to revaccination and the potential for persistence of immunity. Our data do not provide evidence to suggest prolonging the recommended interval for revaccination.

Influence of a rural family medicine rotation on residency selection: MS3 versus MS4.

Background And Objectives: Many family medicine educators feel that a required clinical rotation in family medicine has a positive influence on medical students' selection of family medicine residencies. We investigated the effect of a rural family medicine rotation on students' residency choices and examined the differences between a third-year and a fourth-year rotation.

Methods: We surveyed 1,260 students before and after they participated in a required rural family medicine rotation.

Repair of the midline fascial defect in abdominoplasty with long-acting barbed and smooth absorbable sutures.

Background: Traditionally, repair of the midline fascial defect has been performed with interrupted or running permanent sutures during abdominoplasty. Barbed suture devices, however, eliminate the need for knot tying and potentially are equally effective at maintaining the repair while allowing for faster deployment and elimination of a potential nidus for infection.

Objective: The authors report their experience with long-acting absorbable barbed and smooth sutures.

Preceptorship rurality does not affect medical students' shelf exam scores.

Objective: This study's objective was to determine whether junior medical students' end-of-rotation shelf exam scores varied by the preceptorship county's rurality.

Methods: Student learning during rural preceptorship experiences, 1999 to 2005, was assessed using the students' scores on the National Board of Medical Examiners family medicine subject examination. Rurality was measured using both population density and the rural-urban continuum (RUC) codes.

The effect of preceptorship rurality on students' self-perceived clinical competency.

Objective: This study's objective was to determine whether students' learning experiences, as measured by the improvement in students' perceived competence in several clinical areas, varied by the preceptorship county's rurality.

Methods: Rural preceptorship experiences from 1990 to 2003 were assessed using pre- and post-preceptorship questionnaires regarding students' perceived levels of competence. Questionnaires addressed basic clinical skills, common diagnoses, and advanced clinical skills.