Interdisciplinary college curriculum and its labor market implications.

This article sheds light on how to capture knowledge integration dynamics in college course content, improves and enriches the definition and measurement of interdisciplinarity, and expands the scope of research on the benefits of interdisciplinarity to postcollege outcomes. We distinguish between what higher education institutions claim regarding interdisciplinarity and what they appear to actually do. We focus on the core academic element of student experience-the courses they take, develop a text-based semantic measure of interdisciplinarity in college curriculum, and test its relationship to average earnings of graduates from different types of schools of higher education.

Local control of 1-5 fraction radiotherapy regimens for spinal metastases: an analysis of the impacts of biologically effective dose and primary histology.

Background: This analysis evaluates the impacts of biologically effective dose (BED) and histology on local control (LC) of spinal metastases treated with highly conformal radiotherapy to moderately-escalated doses.

Materials And Methods: Patients were treated at two institutions from 2010-2020. Treatments with less than 5 Gy per fraction or 8 Gy in 1 fraction were excluded.

Biallelic ASCC1 variants including a novel intronic variant result in expanded phenotypic spectrum of spinal muscular atrophy with congenital bone fractures 2 (SMABF2).

Spinal muscular atrophy with congenital bone fractures 2 (SMABF2), a type of arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC), is characterized by congenital joint contractures, prenatal fractures of long bones, and respiratory distress and results from biallelic variants in ASCC1. Here, we describe an infant with severe, diffuse hypotonia, congenital contractures, and pulmonary hypoplasia characteristic of SMABF2, with the unique features of cleft palate, small spleen, transverse liver, and pulmonary thromboemboli with chondroid appearance. This infant also had impaired coagulation with diffuse petechiae and ecchymoses which has only been reported in one other infant with AMC.

Neuroscience Near-Peer-Led Flipped Classroom Improves Student Confidence With Clinical Application of Content and Test-Taking Skills.

Introduction: The ability to apply knowledge gained in neuroscience coursework to a clinical scenario is found to be difficult by many medical students. Neuroscience is both important for future clinical practice and an area frequently tested on USMLE Step 1 examinations.

Methods: Second-year medical students created a peer-led flipped classroom to help first-year students practice applying medical neuroscience course information to clinical situations and demonstrate how that information might be tested in board-style questions.

A comparison of stereotactic body radiation therapy for metastases to the sacral spine and treatment of the thoracolumbar spine.

This study compares the outcomes of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for sacral and thoracolumbar spine metastases. This analysis considered each sacral spine SBRT treatment at a single institution and a cohort of consecutive thoracolumbar treatments. 28 patients with 35 sacral treatments and 41 patients with 49 thoracolumbar treatments were included.