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J Neurosurg Spine
January 2025
2Cleveland Clinic Center for Spine Health, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland; and.
Objective: Spinal fusion is a commonly performed surgical procedure used to relieve pain, deformity, and instability of various spinal pathologies. Although there have been attempts to standardize spinal fusion assessment radiologically, there is currently no unified definition that also considers clinical symptomology. This review attempts to create a more holistic and standardized definition of spinal fusion.
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January 2025
Division of General Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, 200 First St SW, Rochester, US.
Background: Virtual patients (VPs) are computer screen-based simulations of patient-clinician encounters. VP use is limited by cost and low scalability.
Objective: Show proof-of-concept that VPs powered by large language models (LLMs) generate authentic dialogs, accurate representations of patient preferences, and personalized feedback on clinical performance; and explore LLMs for rating dialog and feedback quality.
Elife
January 2025
Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States.
Apart from ancestry, personal or environmental covariates may contribute to differences in polygenic score (PGS) performance. We analyzed the effects of covariate stratification and interaction on body mass index (BMI) PGS (PGS) across four cohorts of European (N = 491,111) and African (N = 21,612) ancestry. Stratifying on binary covariates and quintiles for continuous covariates, 18/62 covariates had significant and replicable R differences among strata.
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January 2025
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA, USA.
Objectives: To incorporate a longitudinal palliative care curriculum into obstetrics and gynecology (Ob-Gyn) residency that could become standardized to ensure competencies in providing end of life (EOL) care.
Methods: This was a prospective cohort study conducted among 23 Ob-Gyn residents at a tertiary training hospital from 2021 to 2022. A curriculum intervention was provided via lecture and simulation.
J Educ Health Promot
December 2024
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Dezful University of Medical Sciences, Dezful, Iran.
Background: Clinical education is an essential part of medical science education in the operating room, and considering its high importance, it is necessary to identify challenges in this regard. The study aims to explain the perception of students and professors regarding the challenges and strategies for improving education in the operating room. The context of this study was the Khomein School of Medical Sciences.
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