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Aim: After the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, several municipal offices were forced to evacuate, and municipal public employees (MPEs) had to perform many administrative tasks related to the disaster. Typhoons and the COVID-19 pandemic also affected the area afterwards. We conducted a survey for MPEs to investigate the mental health impacts and related factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Med Educ Curric Dev
January 2025
Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV, Las Vegas, NV, USA.
Background: The transition of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 to a pass/fail scoring system is reshaping its role in medical students' residency placements. This compels institutions to rethink Step 2 preparation strategies, raising concerns about a clerkship's impact on various student groups. Traditionally, medical schools followed the traditional block rotation model for clerkships, which limits longitudinal learning, and many schools are switching to longitudinal integrated clerkships and longitudinal interleaved clerkships (LInCs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWorld Neurosurg
January 2025
Department of Neurological Surgery, St. John's Neuroscience Institute, Tulsa, OK. Electronic address:
Middle cerebral artery (MCA) aneurysms remain excellent candidates for microsurgical treatment, despite proliferation of new endovascular tools. Nonetheless, patients desire less invasive options for permanent, durable treatment of their aneurysms; this is particularly the case for those presenting without subarachnoid hemorrhage, and those with multiple aneurysms that may require several surgical approaches. Keyhole craniotomies, when properly utilized in well-selected patients, allow for minimally invasive treatment of both ruptured and unruptured cerebral aneurysms, including those harboring bilateral aneurysms which may be treated from a single approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPharmaceutics
December 2024
School of Pharmacy, Nantong University, 9 Seyuan Road, Nantong 226019, China.
The development of novel long-acting injectables for local anesthetics is necessary to effectively manage the acute postoperative pain. The aim of this study was to prepare an injectable oil-based formulation of ropivacaine (ROP) prodrug (ropivacaine stearoxil, ROP-ST) and to investigate the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics after injectable administration. A novel -acyloxymethyl prodrug of ROP, i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Surg Educ
January 2025
Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany; Department of General, Visceral, Thoracic and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital Giessen, Germany. Electronic address:
Objectives: The influence of students' positioning within the theatre on their learning progress is unknown. The present study aimed to investigate whether position of undergraduate medical students in the operating theatre-at the operating table or behind surgical drapes-influences their learning.
Design Setting And Participants: We conducted a single-blind prospective randomized study with 2 parallel arms.
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