Publications by authors named "Wei Wei Lee"

Electronic health records (EHRs) have become integral to modern health care, facilitating documentation, billing, and care coordination. However, their increasing use introduces potential challenges to professionalism in the patient-physician relationship. This article explores both the positive and negative impacts of EHRs on professional behaviors, including empathy, communication, and efficiency.

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Purpose: To report the technique and long-term outcomes of patients with giant retinal tear associated retinal detachment (GRT-RD) treated with pneumatic retinopexy (PnR).

Methods: Retrospective cohort study. All patients presenting with GRT-RD with tears in the superior ten-clock hours who underwent primary PnR were included in this study.

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Medical education continues to evolve with technologic advances, cultural changes, and progress in the application of learning theories. One example is Cutrer's concept of the Master Adaptive Learner (MAL), where the trainee self-directs learning and innovates to maintain a level of expertise in a domain. We suggest that this concept can be applied alongside ideas of adaptive and teacher expertise to represent the medical educator of the future-the Master Adaptive Clinician Educator (MACE).

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  • The study aimed to find out what factors can predict how well a person's vision will be after surgery for a specific type of eye problem called rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.
  • Researchers tested patients' vision, focusing on problems like seeing things distorted (metamorphopsia) and differences in image size between both eyes (aniseikonia) three months after their surgery.
  • They found that damage to certain parts of the retina seen in special eye images was linked to worse vision outcomes after the surgery.
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An optimal clinical learning environment (CLE) is associated with improved learning and patient care outcomes. Significant concerns exist about the state of the CLE in graduate medical education (GME). Research suggests that GME programming falls short in interpersonal aspects of training that promote trainee engagement and psychological safety.

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With increasing use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in health, and rapid technological changes, there is a pressing need to prepare current and future health professionals to use ICTs as an integral part of their practice. We propose the Technological Literacy Framework, which includes 3 interlinked elements-knowledge, capabilities, and critical thinking and decision making-as an overarching structure for organizing and designing competencies, learning objectives, and educational interventions for health professions education in the digital era. We provide examples of EHR and telehealth educational interventions and how they map to the framework.

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Purpose: To describe the optical coherence tomography (OCT) features that can differentiate eyes with fovea-off exudative retinal detachment (ERD) vs rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD), with particular attention to outer retinal corrugations (ORCs).

Design: Multicenter, retrospective cross-sectional study.

Methods: Multicenter, retrospective cross-sectional study of patients diagnosed with unilateral or bilateral fovea-off ERD or primary, acute, fovea-off RRD between 2016 and 2021.

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Most medical schools have instituted undergraduate medical education (UME) well-being programs in recent years in response to high rates of medical student distress, but there is currently significant variability in the structure of UME well-being programs and limited guidance on how to best structure such programs to achieve success. In this article, the authors, all leaders of medical student well-being programs at their home institutions and members of the Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Student Affairs Committee on Student Affairs Working Group on Medical Student Well-Being between 2019 and 2023 offer guidance to the national community on how best to structure a UME well-being program. They use the current literature and their professional experiences leading well-being efforts at 7 different institutions to review the case for addressing medical student well-being, propose a guiding model, and make recommendations for strategies to implement this model.

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  • - The Chicagoland Free Clinics Consortium (CFCC) was established to enhance collaboration among student-run free clinics (SRFCs) in the Chicago area by offering innovation grants and hosting annual conferences.
  • - Over four years (2018-2022), CFCC engaged 23 SRFCs from six different schools, distributed over $15,000 in grants, and hosted four conferences attended by 176 students.
  • - Survey results showed that 80% of attendees felt more inclined to collaborate with other clinics, and 87% of grant recipients believed their funding facilitated projects that wouldn't have been possible otherwise.
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Purpose: To evaluate the association of baseline morphologic stage of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) using OCT with postoperative anatomic and visual acuity (VA) outcomes.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Subjects: Consecutive primary fovea-involving RRDs referred from January 2012 to September 2022.

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Purpose: To describe the pathophysiology of secondary macular hole (MH) in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD).

Methods: A retrospective cohort of 360 consecutive primary fovea-off RRDs presenting to St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, from January 2012 to September 2022 were included.

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The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) requires that well-being programs must be "effective." Yet most medical schools do not robustly assess their well-being programs. Most evaluate their programs using one question on the Association of American Medical College's annual Graduation Questionnaire (AAMC GQ) survey for fourth-year students on their satisfaction with well-being programs, which is inadequate and nonspecific and only assesses a specific time in training.

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Telehealth services, specifically telemedicine audio-video and audio-only patient encounters, expanded dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic through temporary waivers and flexibilities tied to the public health emergency. Early studies demonstrate significant potential to advance the quintuple aim (patient experience, health outcomes, cost, clinician well-being, and equity). Supported well, telemedicine can particularly improve patient satisfaction, health outcomes, and equity.

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Purpose: To determine whether fluid-fluid exchange (endodrainage) or external needle drainage can result in retinal displacement following minimal gas vitrectomy (MGV) with no fluid-air exchange for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment repair.

Methods: Two patients with macula-off rhegmatogenous retinal detachment underwent MGV with and without segmental buckle. First case had MGV with segmental buckle (MGV-SB), along with endodrainage, whereas the second case had MGV only with external fluid drainage.

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  • - Much of U.S. undergraduate medical education (UME) focuses on objective and standardized teaching methods, which may work in controlled environments but fail to address complex, real-world patient care and learning needs effectively.
  • - Evidence from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine shows that personalized, "systems" approaches lead to higher student satisfaction, improved residency application outcomes, and more favorable attitudes toward diversity and inclusion.
  • - The article discusses the philosophical challenges of integrating complex problem-solving (CPS) into UME and highlights key differences in teaching practices that prioritize real-world relevance over strict compliance.
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This article presents high-resolution swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) imaging data used to elaborate a mechanical model that elucidates the formation of outer retinal corrugations (ORCs) in rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (RRD). The imaging data shared in the repository and presented in this article is related to the research paper entitled "Outer Retinal Corrugations in Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment: The Retinal Pigment Epithelium-Photoreceptor Dysregulation Theory" (Muni et al., AJO, 2022).

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Purpose: To evaluate the role of en face OCT as a diagnostic tool for the detection of persistent subretinal fluid (PSRF) and outer retinal folds (ORFs) after successful rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) repair.

Design: Observational post hoc analysis of 2 prospective surgical trials.

Participants: All patients with gradable (signal strength ≥ 5 and no segmentation error) 6 × 6-mm macular cube scans obtained using spectral-domain OCT (Carl Zeiss Meditec) between 1 and 2 months after surgery were included in this study.

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Purpose: To describe bacillary layer detachment and related abnormalities of the foveal bouquet in rhegmatogenous retinal detachment and assess their impact on photoreceptor recovery and full-thickness macular hole formation, using optical coherence tomography.

Methods: Prospective cohort of 93 consecutive patients with fovea-off rhegmatogenous retinal detachment presenting to St. Michael's Hospital from January 2020 to April 2022, with gradable preoperative foveal optical coherence tomography.

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Purpose: To describe the sequential morphologic changes after rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) utilizing a novel, objective, and clinically relevant staging system based on swept-source OCT (SS-OCT) and determine its association with the duration of fovea-off and postoperative visual acuity (VA).

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Subjects: Consecutive patients with primary fovea-involving RRD referred to St.

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