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J Med Educ Curric Dev
January 2025
University of Kansas, Department of Surgery, Kansas City, KS, USA.
Background: The demographics of medical schools reveal a growing trend towards greater gender and underrepresented in medicine (UIM) representation among students, yet surgical residency lags behind. This study explores the demographics of first-year medical students (M1s) and their initial career interests.
Methods: A panel of faculty physicians and fourth-year medical students in surgical and nonsurgical specialties was held for M1s during orientation week.
Neurohospitalist
January 2025
Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School and Attending Physician, Stroke Division, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Subacute-to-chronic gait instability has a broad differential diagnosis. The neurological exam can help elucidate the localization and suggest an underlying etiology of the symptomatology, which can lead to a more focused diagnostic approach. Two patients are described - 1 with a month of worsening difficulty with ambulation that evolved to bilateral hand discoordination and another with 18 months of progressive difficulty with ambulation that also then progressed to involve her bilateral hands.
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January 2025
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL.
Background: Instagram has become one of the most powerful marketing tools available to plastic surgeons because patients have increasingly turned to online resources to find physicians. Within, we review the online presence of self-ascribed plastic surgeons in the United States to identify potential misinformation and dishonest advertising.
Methods: The Inflact database was queried for the search terms: "plastic surgeon/surgery," "plastic and reconstructive surgeon/surgery," "aesthetic surgeon/surgery," and "cosmetic surgeon/surgery.
Clin Breast Cancer
December 2024
Lilly Oncology Breast Cancer, Texas Oncology, Dallas, TX.
This review aims to investigate the issue of treatment nonadherence and to present the available strategies to improve adherence to oral treatments in breast cancer. A literature search was conducted to contextualise the issue of nonadherence, investigate the reasons behind nonadherence, and demonstrate strategies to address treatment nonadherence in breast cancer. Findings indicate that adherence rates decrease while discontinuation rates increase with increasing lengths of breast cancer treatment course.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLancet Respir Med
January 2025
Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, Netherlands. Electronic address:
Background: The majority of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections in young children are managed in primary care, however, the disease burden in this setting remains poorly defined.
Methods: We did a prospective cohort study in primary care settings in Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and the UK during the RSV seasons of 2020-21 (UK only; from Jan 1, 2021), 2021-22, and 2022-23. Children aged younger than 5 years presenting to their general practitioner or primary care paediatrician with symptoms of an acute respiratory tract infection were eligible for RSV testing.
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