They just don't get enough! Variable intern experience in bedside procedural skills.

Background: Medical school and resident training programmes offer different learning opportunities and outcomes. The aim of the study was to assess medical student and intern experience in common clinical procedures.

Methods: Interns employed in a metropolitan teaching hospital from 2000 to 2004 completed a survey of experience and confidence in clinical procedures at the beginning and end of their intern year.

Mental health impact of 9/11 Pentagon attack: validation of a rapid assessment tool.

Background: Following the tragic events of 9/11/2001, the Pentagon Post Disaster Health Assessment (PPDHA) survey was created to identify healthcare needs and concerns among Pentagon personnel and to assure that appropriate care and information was provided. The PPDHA was fielded from October 15, 2001, to January 15, 2002. Fundamental in this assessment was the evaluation of the mental health impact as a result of the attack.

The U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine response to the Pentagon attack: a multipronged prevention-based approach.

Personnel of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine responded to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon with in a multipronged approach that encompassed the areas of environmental science, behavioral health, occupational and preventive medicine, risk communication, epidemiology, and medical surveillance.

Relative dispersion of intravascular transit times during isolated human limb perfusions for recurrent melanoma.

Aims: We have characterized the relative dispersion of vascular and extravascular markers in the limbs of three patients undergoing isolated limb perfusions with the cytotoxic melphalan for recurrent malignant melanoma both before and after melphalan dosing.

Methods: A bolus of injectate containing [51Cr] labelled red blood cells, [14C]-sucrose and [3H]-water was injected into an iliac or femoral artery and outflow samples collected at 1 s intervals by a fraction collector. The radioactivity due to each isotype was analysed by either gamma [51Cr] or beta [14C and 3H] counting.

Comparison of injury during cadet basic training by gender.

Objectives: To describe the rate and distribution of injuries during basic training in male and female cadets and to assess the contribution of pretraining conditioning and height to the male-female differential in injuries.

Design: Cohort study.

Setting: The US Military Academy, West Point, NY.