The "Medical Education Roadshow:" Delivering Faculty Development to Busy Clinician Educators When They Least Expect It.

Introduction: Designing impactful faculty development for busy clinicians is challenging. Many may not recognize their impact on the learning environment or prioritize their development as educators. Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a faculty development approach, the "Medical Education Roadshow," which delivered succinct, actionable faculty development at regularly scheduled, departmental clinical business meetings.

Enhancing the Formal Preclinical Curriculum to Improve Medical Student Perception of Surgery.

Background: This study aims to determine the effect of formal, preclinical curricular interventions on medical students' perceptions of surgeons, surgical learning objectives, and concerns regarding the surgical clerkship.

Methods: Thirty-eight medical students underwent a newly required, formal introduction to surgery during the preclinical curriculum. Two months later, these students were given surveys regarding their perception of surgery before and after a bootcamp-style transitions to the wards workshop that immediately preceded their core clinical rotations.

Clinical Characteristics Associated with Antibiotic Treatment Failure for Tuboovarian Abscesses.

Objective: Although parenteral antibiotic treatment is a standard approach for tuboovarian abscesses, a significant proportion of patients fail therapy and require interventional radiology (IR) guided drainage. The objective of this study is to assess if specific clinical factors are associated with antibiotic treatment failure.

Study Design: Retrospective medical record review of patients hospitalized for tuboovarian abscesses from 2001 through 2012 was performed.

Low back pain does not improve with surgical treatment of pelvic organ prolapse.

Introduction And Hypothesis: Our goal was to determine if there is a correlation between low back pain (LBP) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP) by assessing for change in LBP after surgical correction of prolapse.

Methods: Patients undergoing POP surgery were recruited to participate. They completed the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), a validated back pain questionnaire, at their preoperative and postoperative visits at 1, 3, and 6 months.

Management strategies for painful bladder syndrome.

Painful bladder syndrome/interstitial cystitis (PBS/IC) is a condition of chronic pelvic pain associated with irritative voiding symptoms. Management of PBS/IC has been a challenge for generations of physicians, owing to a lack of consensus on its definition, an incompletely understood pathophysiology, and numerous available therapies without high-quality evidence to guide their usage. This article reviews the most current conception of PBS/IC and data on effective treatments to recommend a management strategy.