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Physician assistant/associate career flexibility: factors associated with specialty transitions.
BMC Health Serv Res
December 2024
National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants, 12000 Findley Road, Suite 200, Johns Creek, Georgia, 30097, USA.
Background: Physician assistants/associates (PAs), due to their broad medical education and certification, have the flexibility to change specialties throughout their careers. Prior studies suggest that between half and three-quarters exercise this option at some point in their career, and a third do so within the first decade. However, more research is needed to understand the factors associated with PAs changing vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAcanthamoeba Infection in a Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipient: Challenges in Diagnosis, Management, and Source Identification.
Transpl Infect Dis
December 2024
Transplant Infectious Diseases, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, Division of Intramural Research, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
We report a case of Acanthamoeba infection in an HCT recipient with steroid-refractory GVHD. We highlight the multiple challenges that free-living ameba infections present to the clinician, the clinical laboratory, transplant infectious disease for review, hospital epidemiology if nosocomial transmission is considered, and public health officials, as exposure source identification can be a significant challenge. Transplant physicians should include Acanthamoeba infections in their differential diagnosis of a patient with skin, sinus, lung, and/or brain involvement.
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AJNR Am J Neuroradiol
December 2024
Department Neuro-OncologyErasmus MC Cancer InstituteRotterdam, The Netherlands.
Evaluating the impact of 2011 tort reform limiting noneconomic damages in North Carolina and Tennessee on testing, imaging, and procedure utilization.
Health Serv Res
December 2024
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Objective: To evaluate the impact of tort reform laws passed in 2011 capping noneconomic damages in North Carolina and Tennessee on rates and adjusted per user costs of tests, imaging, and procedures in the Medicare fee-for-service population.
Study Setting And Design: State-level synthetic difference-in-differences, adjusting for the percent of FFS Medicare beneficiaries in the state who were female, had ever been on Medicare Advantage, were eligible for Medicaid for at least 1 month of the year, and total state risk-adjusted, standardized per-capita costs. Analyses of North Carolina and Tennessee were performed separately.
The impact of culture and lived experiences on health professions education and practice.
Curr Pharm Teach Learn
December 2024
Academic Planning, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, North Carolina State University, 208 Holladay Hall, CB 7101, United States of America. Electronic address:
Health professions educators are not immune to the impact our lived experiences and associated cultures, including healthcare professional/higher education culture, can have on the development and manifestation of biases. These biases can impact students during the admissions process, their interactions with faculty in the classroom, selection for rewards and recognition, and access to research opportunities. Likewise, our colleagues can be affected during the hiring process, in their assignment to committees, and during the promotion and tenure process.
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