Learning from failure: how eliminating required attendance sparked the beginning of a medical school transformation.

Concern about medical student attendance has been rising over the last decade. Thinking a required attendance policy would fix things, we instituted such a mandate in 2010 only to find that although students were present at lecture and other learning sessions they were disengaged. In addition, we experienced growing distrust between faculty and students and tensions between the Student Affairs and Curriculum offices.

An overview of the medical school admission process and use of applicant data in decision making: what has changed since the 1980s?

Purpose: To investigate current medical school admission processes and whether they differ from those in 1986 when they were last reviewed by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

Method: In spring 2008, admission deans from all MD-granting U.S.

The role of gastroesophageal reflux in exercise-triggered asthma: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Exercise-triggered asthma (ETA) develops when physical activity triggers asthma symptoms during or directly after exercise. In patients prone to symptoms of supra-esophageal reflux, exercise may trigger gastroesophageal reflux (GER), resulting in such symptoms.

Aims: To determine the prevalence of abnormal pH in patients with ETA and to determine whether acid suppression improves symptoms in ETA patients.

Rates of hospitalizations and emergency department visits in patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease taking beta-blockers.

Study Objective: To determine the rates of hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits during cardioselective and nonselective beta-blocker therapy in patients with asthma and/or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Design: Retrospective, observational cohort study.

Data Source: Electronic medical records database.