Publications by authors named "Virginia M Sheffield"
Article Synopsis
- There are concerns that biased practices in medical education contribute to health disparities, but resources to address these issues are limited.
- A toolkit and faculty development workshop were created using Kern's curriculum development steps to improve the integration of diversity, equity, inclusion, advocacy, and justice (DEIAJ) in medical education.
- Post-workshop surveys indicated that participants, mostly medical faculty, felt more confident and recognized the importance of DEIAJ in their teaching materials.
This single-center retrospective study of invasive fungal disease (IFD) enrolled 251 adult patients undergoing induction chemotherapy for newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) from 2014-2019. Patients had primary AML ( = 148, 59%); antecedent myelodysplastic syndrome ( = 76, 30%), or secondary AML ( = 27, 11%). Seventy-five patients (30%) received an allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant within the first year after induction chemotherapy.
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