Outcomes of a Scholarly Activity Curriculum for Family Medicine Residents.

Background And Objectives: Scholarship is essential to growth and innovation in family medicine. Moreover, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Review Committee-Family Medicine requires family medicine residents to complete scholarly activities. However, many residents lack the training and confidence to successfully conduct such activities.

Periprosthetic fractures after total knee arthroplasty.

Fractures around total knee arthroplasties are challenging clinical problems and include the following: stress fractures of the pelvis and femoral neck, supracondylar femur fractures, fractures of the proximal tibial metaphysis and diaphysis, and patellar fractures. Treatment focuses on restoration of the patient's prefracture functional status. The etiology of supracondylar femur fractures is multifactorial and treatment includes immobilization, retrograde intramedullary nailing, open reduction and internal fixation, and revision arthroplasty.

Results of direct exchange or debridement of the infected total knee arthroplasty.

In this literature review, 30 reports provided outcome data on 37 direct exchange arthroplasties, 530 open debridements, and 23 arthroscopic debridements. The average followup was approximately 4 years, but the range was broad (range, 0.02-14 years).