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Background In low-income countries, clinicians trained through a context-specific trauma surgery fellowship program (TFP) can help reduce injury-related mortality to levels closer to those observed in higher-resource settings. Successful implementation, however, hinges on buy-in from local clinicians. We therefore assessed clinician support for a potential TFP in Uganda, considering perceived need, curricular recommendations, barriers, and motivating factors.
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January 2025
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States of America.
Breastfeeding (BF) is vital for maternal and infant health, yet post-hospital discharge support remains a challenge. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides BF peer counseling prenatally and up to 1-year postpartum among low-income women in the United States. The Lactation Advice Through Texting Can Help (LATCH) intervention is an evidence-based two-way text messaging intervention that provides BF education and support in the WIC peer counseling program.
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January 2025
Stephanie Neary, PhD, MPA, PA-C, is an assistant professor adjunct and the director of Didactic Education in the Yale University Physician Assistant Online Program, New Haven, Connecticut. This review was conducted while a PhD in Nursing Science student at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.
Introduction: To determine the drivers and barriers to flourishing for clinical health professions students through a review of peer-reviewed literature.
Methods: Articles were analyzed in Scopus, PubMed, and EBSCOHost and hand-searched education journals through May 2024 describing flourishing among clinical health professions students. Whittemore and Knafl's integrative approach was used, and quality was assessed by the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool.
Breastfeed Med
January 2025
Divisions of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine and Allergy Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.
Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine (BFLM) programs at academic medical centers are uncommon but expanding. Our academic medical center, with a long legacy of leadership in BFLM, established a BFLM program in 2016 and launched a dedicated division in 2022. To describe the strategy, services, measures, and challenges facing our multidisciplinary academic BFLM program in its first 8 years.
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December 2024
Division of Pediatric Surgery, Phoenix Children's, Phoenix, AZ, USA; Department of Child Health, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Background: Multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) are integral to navigating complex patient care. Implementation of MDTs may improve patient outcomes, reduce physician burnout, and decrease hospital costs. Systemic obstacles to optimizing pediatric MDTs remain unexplored.
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