13 results match your criteria: "Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine[Affiliation]"
BMC Med Educ
August 2024
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine, 200 University Pkwy, Yakima, WA, 98901, USA.
Background: Student-run free clinics are present at many medical schools throughout the United States. While many work with adult homeless or uninsured populations, few work with pediatric populations. We investigated the impact of volunteering at a free preparticipation sports physical clinic on medical students' educational motivation, school engagement, confidence in their clinical skills, connectedness to community, and self-efficacy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pediatr Urol
April 2024
Temple University, Department of Urology, 3401 N Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA. Electronic address:
Introduction: Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is a common urologic condition affecting approximately 1% of all children. Surgical success often depends on the grade of VUR, as patients with grades 4 or 5 have been have a greater risk for postoperative complications. Unplanned urinary catheter placement (UCP) postoperatively and prolonged length of hospital stay (LOS) are indicative of unexpected complications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCharity care services can be an important tool for reducing healthcare disparities among populations with housing instability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objectives: In 2020 the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) became the sole accrediting body for osteopathic and allopathic residency programs, with an option for programs to apply for Osteopathic Recognition (OR) to distinguish their training in osteopathic principles and practice. There is limited research regarding this transition. The goal of our study was to assess the perceived value of OR and perceived difficulty of obtaining OR for family medicine residency programs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objective: The National Resident Matching Program's (NRMP) Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP) places unmatched applicants in residency programs. We examined the outcomes and experience of family medicine residency programs that matched with residents through SOAP.
Methods: In 2020, all program directors in a regional family medicine residency network whose programs had participated in SOAP (n=23) completed a survey on their experience with SOAP and characteristics of residents who were matched via SOAP (n=52) anytime between 2012 and 2020.
J Osteopath Med
December 2022
Department of Graduate Medical Education, Kingman Regional Medical Center, Kingman, AZ, USA.
Context: Vaccination status has been shown to be linked to patient-centered outcomes in those with COVID-19. However, minimal data have explored the relationship between vaccination status and representation rates after receiving monoclonal antibodies (MABs) the Delta strain of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in a community setting.
Objectives: The authors sought to determine if there was a difference in patient-centered outcomes between those who were vaccinated and unvaccinated after the administration of casirivimab/imdevimab for mild-to-moderate COVID-19 during the time when the Delta strain was most prevalent.
J Cyst Fibros
September 2022
Providence Alaska Medical Center, United States.
Background: The association of certain disease processes with digital clubbing is well documented. Digital clubbing is often reversible after successful treatment of the underlying pathology, for example, after lung transplantation in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). We examined the effect of highly effective Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Regulator (CFTR) modulators, defined for the purposes of this study as ivacaftor or the combination of ivacaftor, tezacaftor, and elexacaftor (ETI), on digital clubbing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMJ Case Rep
November 2021
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine, Yakima, Washington, USA.
Soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) are rare and may often be misdiagnosed, resulting in delays in treatment. A 67-year-old cisgender woman with type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity presented to her primary care physician with a mass on her left proximal arm. The clinical opinion of the attending physician was that of an insulin injection site reaction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: As the COVID-19 pandemic developed in March 2020 in greater Seattle, our clinical trial site faced several ethical and clinical dilemmas. We remained open to research patients including high-risk elderly patients and adapted to changing health recommendations.
Methods: Beginning March 14, 2020 we developed an in-person evaluation for potential risk of COVID-19.
Dis Mon
April 2020
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine, Yakima, Washington, United States.
Asthma is a complex condition that affects 14% of the world's children and the approach to management includes both pharmacologic as well as non-pharmacologic strategies including attention to complex socioeconomic status phenomena. After an historical consideration of asthma, allergic and immunologic aspects of asthma in children and adolescents are presented. Concepts of socioeconomic aspects of asthma are considered along with environmental features and complications of asthma disparities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Objectives: Trainees-medical students and residents-are an important constituency of family medicine. The Family Medicine for America's Health (FMAHealth) Workforce Education and Development (WED) Tactic Team attempted to engage trainees in FMAHealth objectives via a nationally accessible leadership development program. We discuss a how-to mechanism to develop similar models, while highlighting areas for improvement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnticancer Res
August 2017
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine, Yakima, WA, U.S.A.
Background/aim: The majority of cancers affect the elderly, but 22.4% of all cases occur in the ages of 21-55. This age range represents common childbearing and child-rearing years, which imply that many of these patients have minor children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDiabetes education programs need improved measures of goal setting for dietary control of diabetes. Additionally, measures of patient experiences with dietary goal setting are needed to better prepare patients for diabetes self-management. Measures of dietary goals and strategies were investigated via survey of 100 Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic whites with type 2 diabetes at a community clinic.
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