The Collaborative Scholarship Intensive: A Research-Intensive Course to Improve Faculty Scholarship.

Background And Objectives: Learning to balance the clinical, educational, and scholarly elements of an academic career is challenging for faculty. To increase research output amongst family medicine faculty with limited to no publications, we developed the Collaborative Scholarship Intensive (CSI) to provide participants with intensive instruction in research methodology coupled with structured writing support and protected time for writing.

Methods: The CSI was developed by the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine and Community Health as a six-session faculty development program that enrolled 23 participants in its first three classes.

Association of Patients' Perception of Primary Care Provider Listening With Emergency Department Use.

Introduction: This study examined whether patients' perceptions of their primary care providers' (PCP) listening frequency were associated with emergency department (ED) utilization, including a comparison to patients without PCPs.

Methods: Data were obtained from the 2015 California Health Interview Survey. Respondents were asked if they had a PCP and how often their PCPs listened, resulting in five groups: patients without a PCP (n=4,407), and patients with a PCP who perceived the PCP's listening frequency to be never (n=254), sometimes (n=1,282), usually (n=3,440), or always (n=11,651).

Breakfast Is Brain Food? The Effect on Grade Point Average of a Rural Group Randomized Program to Promote School Breakfast.

Background: Adolescents frequently miss breakfast which may impact cognitive, academic, and health outcomes. This analysis describes the effect of a trial to assess school level changes to increase breakfast consumption on grade point average (GPA).

Methods: Sixteen rural Minnesota high schools were randomized to a policy and environmental change intervention or delayed intervention (control) group.

Altering the School Breakfast Environment Reduces Barriers to School Breakfast Participation Among Diverse Rural Youth.

Background: The purpose is to determine if altering school breakfast policies and the school breakfast environment will positively impact adolescent beliefs of the barriers and benefits of eating breakfast.

Methods: There were 904 adolescents from 16 rural high schools, Minnesota, in the BreakFAST Study who reported eating breakfast fewer than 4 times per week at baseline. Schools were randomized to intervention (N = 8 schools) or delayed intervention (N = 8) condition.

Impact of a Prostate Specific Antigen Screening Decision Aid on Clinic Function.

Introduction: Decision aids (DAs) around prostate cancer screening can increase knowledge and shared decision making (SDM), but remain underutilized due to cost and time constraints that disrupt clinic flow. We examined the impact of a simple prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening DA distribution strategy on clinic flow as well as SDM in a diverse urban primary care clinic.

Methods: Men ages 50-75 viewed the DA while waiting for physicians.

Informal Training Experiences and Explicit Bias Against African Americans among Medical Students.

Despite the widespread inclusion of diversity-related curricula in US medical training, racial disparities in the quality of care and physician bias in medical treatment persist. The present study examined the effects of both formal and informal experiences on non-African American medical students' (=2922) attitudes toward African Americans in a longitudinal study of 49 randomly selected US medical schools. We assessed the effects experiences related to medical training, accounting for prior experiences and attitudes.