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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Rebecca E. Gibbons, Jessica J. Reed, Shalini Srinivasan, Kristen L. Murphy, Jeffrey R. Raker
Summary: Research-based assessments in postsecondary chemistry education have not received as much attention as evidence-based instructional practices. A survey of United States postsecondary chemistry faculty revealed that the use of assessments is determined by their utility. The study also identified a sample of courses that consistently use research-based assessment tools. The association between context and assessment practices informs future developments and dissemination of assessment innovations.
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Surgery
Polina Zmijewski, Ruth Obiarinze, Andrea Gillis, Jessica Fazendin, Herbert Chen, Brenessa Lindeman
Summary: Junior faculty well-being is most affected at the department level. Qualitative data collection from junior faculty regarding barriers to well-being and academic/clinical productivity can be invaluable for departments and institutions seeking to make cultural or systemic improvements.
Article
Acoustics
Adam Svec, Shae D. Morgan
Summary: This study aimed to assess the usefulness of currently available virtual audiology education tools for acquiring audiology skills and knowledge from both educators and students' perspectives. The survey results showed that the majority of educators and students found these virtual tools easy to use, improved teaching methods and learning outcomes, and would likely use them again.
JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Jiunn-Tyng Yeh, Boaz Shulruf, Hsin-Chen Lee, Pin-Hsiang Huang, Wen-Hua Kuo, Tyzh-Chang Hwang, Chen-Huan Chen
Summary: Taiwan's medical schools heavily rely on the CJA score for faculty appointment and promotion, with a particular emphasis on journal impact factor. However, this system may not effectively improve the international standing of the institutions. Recommendations include reducing the importance of CJA score, adopting more rigorous metrics like the h-index, and supporting research to enhance the FAP system.
BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION
(2022)
Article
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
David B. Larson, Gloria L. Hwang
Summary: This study aimed to test a hypothesis framework of different referring provider needs for primary care, specialty care, and urgent or emergency care practitioners through an annual survey at an academic medical center. The results indicated significant differences in provider needs for radiology services among different provider types, supporting established hypotheses.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Tabitha M. Scott, Tony Succar, Constantinos Petsoglou
Summary: This study surveyed the current trends and methods of ophthalmology teaching in Australian medical schools and found that ophthalmology teaching in Australia is reasonable compared to international standards, but there is significant variation among universities. Utilizing the International Council of Ophthalmology curriculum and developing shared resources would enhance the competence of medical graduates.
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Bin Su, Tong Zhang, Li Yan, Chaoyang Huang, Xiangpu Cheng, Chao Cai, Dan Cui
Summary: This study aims to share the issues and experiences of online medical teaching practices in China, providing insights for peers in other countries or regions transitioning to e-learning during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. By investigating local online medical teaching in China, we present useful tools and modalities successfully utilized in education during the challenging time of COVID-19, although some challenges persist.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Health Policy & Services
Simon Nothman, Michael Kaffman, Rachel Nave, Moshe Y. Flugelman
Summary: Teaching medical students is crucial for training the next generation of physicians and maintaining quality medicine. Research on physician training for clinical clerkships in Israel revealed a lack of adequate training, especially at Technion school, and a perception among clinicians that clinical teaching is undervalued compared to research. Improved compensation and recognition are seen as potential ways to enhance the quality of clinical teaching.
ISRAEL JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Biomedical
Sarah Breen, Duane Knudson
Summary: This study surveyed international biomechanics instructors on their perspectives regarding teaching, active learning, and instructional quality standards. Most instructors had significant teaching experience and educational backgrounds, but were less familiar with physics education research. They had a high level of awareness of AL teaching, with differences in instructional delivery methods and textbook usage.
SPORTS BIOMECHANICS
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Manar Aljabri, Manal AlAmir, Manal AlGhamdi, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, Fernando Collado-Mesa
Summary: Medical imaging refers to various technologies used to diagnose, monitor, or treat medical conditions. Deep learning and machine learning techniques provide solutions for image interpretation in the medical field. Large amounts of high-quality training data and annotation tools are essential for training algorithms to achieve human-level performance.
MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Maria Isabel Opper Hernando, Denis Witham, Peter Richard Steinhagen, Stefan Angermair, Wolfgang Bauer, Friederike Compton, Andreas Edel, Jan Kruse, York Kuehnle, Gunnar Lachmann, Susanne Marz, Holger Mueller-Redetzky, Jens Nee, Oliver Paul, Damaris Praeger, Carsten Skurk, Miriam Stegemann, Alexander Uhrig, Stefan Wolf, Elke Zimmermann, Kerstin Rubarth, Myrto Bolanaki, Joachim Seybold, Marc Dewey, Julian Pohlan
Summary: This study aims to describe physicians' perspectives on the use of CT in patients with sepsis. It was found that there are significant differences in attitudes towards the use of CT in septic patients among physicians from different workplaces and medical specialties.
EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Jean C. R. Hauck, Fernando S. Pacheco, Matheus F. Bertonceli Bueno
Summary: Teaching Machine Learning in school is essential for preparing students for a society influenced by Artificial Intelligence. The study identified visual tools that support teaching Machine Learning in K-12 education, with findings suggesting that these tools can enhance students' understanding of ML but require further research on their educational design to optimize their effectiveness in schools.
EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Thomas W. Concannon, Ramya Chari, Justin Lee, Liisa Hiatt, Laura J. Faherty
Summary: This paper presents a protocol for ongoing scoping reviews of World Trade Center (WTC)-related health research. The goal of the WTC Health Program (Program) is to assess the inventory, quality, and impact of its funded research in the context of all clinical and translational research involving WTC populations.
SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Oncology
A. Moya-Plana, L. Tselikas, O. Lambotte, S. Temam, T. De Baere, E. Deutsch, F. Barlesi, P. Blanchard, A. Levy
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a major shift in oncology postgraduate education towards virtual learning. However, students and faculty teachers have different opinions on the effectiveness and interactivity of virtual teaching. While virtual learning has reduced student-teacher interactions, most teachers believe that some level of virtual teaching should be maintained even after the pandemic.
Review
Education & Educational Research
Afsaneh Dehnad, Maryam Jalali, Saeed Shahabi, Parviz Mojgani, Shoaleh Bigdeli
Summary: Supportive co-teaching (SCT) in medical sciences has been positively received by students, who believe it helps them better understand the relationship between basic and clinical sciences, leading to increased engagement and an optimized learning experience.
BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Annette K. Regan, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Sheena G. Sullivan
Summary: This study aims to evaluate the accuracy of diagnostic codes in detecting COVID-19 during pregnancy and finds that relying solely on ICD-coded diagnoses may result in missing over one-fifth of cases. The use of multiple sources of COVID-19 diagnostic information can improve the accuracy of epidemiological studies.
PAEDIATRIC AND PERINATAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Kosuke Inoue, Beate Ritz, Onyebuchi A. Arah
Summary: This study found that chronic pain increases the risk of all-cause mortality through opioid prescriptions. This highlights the importance of careful guideline-based chronic pain management to prevent death from possibly inappropriate opioid prescriptions driven by chronic pain.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Andreas Rieckmann, Piotr Dworzynski, Leila Arras, Sebastian Lapuschkin, Wojciech Samek, Onyebuchi Aniweta Arah, Naja Hulvej Rod, Claus Thorn Ekstrom
Summary: This study presents the Causes of Outcome Learning approach, which aims to discover combinations of exposures that lead to an increased risk of specific health outcomes. The approach involves a computational phase using a non-negative model, risk decomposition, and clustering individuals. Applying this approach enables the identification of complex causes and informs targeted public health interventions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Iris Jansen, Milou E. W. M. Silkens, Gerbrich Galema, Hester Vermeulen, Suzanne E. Geerlings, Kiki M. J. M. H. Lombarts, Renee E. Stalmeijer
Summary: This study aimed to understand the guiding role of nurses in residents' workplace learning and explore the perceptions and reasons of residents and nurses regarding this role. The results showed that nurses provided more support and guidance in learning from patient care compared to the perceptions of residents. Additionally, nurses indicated that attending physicians did not always involve them in guiding residents, while residents perceived nurses to be involved.
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Alina Smirnova, Saad Chahine, Christina Milani, Abigail Schuh, Stefanie S. Sebok-Syer, Jordan L. Swartz, Jeffrey A. Wilhite, Adina Kalet, Steven J. Durning, Kiki M. J. M. H. Lombarts, Cees P. M. van der Vleuten, Daniel J. Schumacher
Summary: By analyzing electronic health record data, it is possible to use adjusted data to assess residents' clinical performance in pediatric emergency medicine and identify opportunities for quality improvement.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Paul Brendel, Aracelis Torres, Onyebuchi A. Arah
Summary: Traditional multiple-bias adjustment involves adjusting for biases one at a time, while a novel alternative approach is to simultaneously adjust for all biases using imputation and/or regression weighting. A simulation study showed that using correct bias parameters can yield unbiased effect estimates, and even incorrect specification of bias parameters still resulted in less bias compared to observed biased effects. Simultaneous multi-bias analysis is a useful method to investigate and understand how multiple biases can affect initial effect estimates, enhancing the validity and transparency of real-world evidence obtained from observational, longitudinal studies.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Oncology
Helen T. Orimoloye, Naveen Qureshi, Pei-Chen Lee, Chia-Kai Wu, Chai Saechao, Noah Federman, Chung-Yi Li, Beate Ritz, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Julia E. Heck
Summary: This study in Taiwan found that maternal anemia during pregnancy is related to childhood cancer. Nutritional anemia increases the risk of childhood cancer, while non-nutritional anemias do not.
PEDIATRIC BLOOD & CANCER
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kirsten F. A. A. Dabekaussen, Renee A. Scheepers, Erik Heineman, Adam L. Haber, Kiki M. J. M. H. Lombarts, Debbie A. D. C. Jaarsma, Jo Shapiro
Summary: Unprofessional behavior is a common issue in healthcare organizations and has negative impacts on trust, patient safety, the clinical learning environment, and clinician well-being. This study aims to investigate the types, frequency, sources, and targets of unprofessional behavior among healthcare professionals. The findings provide important insights for developing training and remediation initiatives to address specific types of professionalism lapses.
Review
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Rosa Bogerd, Milou E. W. M. Silkens, Debby G. Keuken, Rutger J. Hassink, Jose P. S. Henriques, Kiki M. J. M. H. Lombarts
Summary: This study is the first to comprehensively examine the well-being of cardiologists and its determinants, including both positive and negative dimensions. A national, multicenter, self-administered web-based questionnaire was conducted to collect data. The study found that workload, work-home interference, and team atmosphere predicted the negative dimensions of well-being, while autonomy predicted cardiologists' professional fulfillment. Physician-patient interactions, person-job fit, and individual resilience affected both dimensions. Dutch cardiologists scored relatively high on professional fulfillment and average on work exhaustion and interpersonal disengagement.
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN CARDIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Anne Gaml-Sorensen, Nis Brix, Katia Keglberg Haervig, Christian Lindh, Sandra Sogaard Tottenborg, Karin Sorig Hougaard, Birgit Bjerre Hoyer, Andreas Ernst, Linn Hakonsen Arendt, Pernille Jul Clemmensen, Jens Peter Ellekilde Bonde, Tine Brink Henriksen, Gunnar Toft, Onyebuchi A. A. Arah, Cecilia Host Ramlau-Hansen
Summary: Maternal vitamin D levels during pregnancy may have an impact on reproductive health in male offspring, affecting testes volume and total sperm count. This study found that lower maternal vitamin D levels during pregnancy were associated with decreased testes volume and lower total sperm count in adult sons. The findings were supported by continuous models, spline plots, and instrumental variable analysis. Maternal vitamin D levels above 75 nmol/L during pregnancy may be beneficial for testes function in adult sons.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Anne Gaml-Sorensen, Nis Brix, Andreas Ernst, Lea Lykke Harrits Lunddorf, Christian Lindh, Gunnar Toft, Tine Brink Henriksen, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Cecilia Host Ramlau-Hansen
Summary: This study investigated whether the season of first trimester or maternal 25-hydroxyvitamin D-3 levels were associated with pubertal timing in children. The results showed that children of mothers who had their first trimester during November-April or had lower 25(OH)D-3 levels had earlier pubertal timing.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Douglas E. Morrison, Roch Nianogo, Vladimir Manuel, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Nathaniel Anderson, Tony Kuo, Moira Inkelas
Summary: An agent-based model was developed to help school districts understand infection dynamics and the impact of preventive measures on outcomes. This model provides insights for policymakers on the effects of different interventions and infection risks on educational outcomes.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Substance Abuse
Ryan D. Assaf, Marjan Javanbakht, Pamina M. Gorbach, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Steven J. Shoptaw, Ziva D. Cooper
Summary: Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing prepared cannabis and cannabis-related paraphernalia was common. However, this study found that sharing of cannabis decreased during the pandemic, possibly due to risk mitigation strategies to prevent COVID-19 transmission.
HARM REDUCTION JOURNAL
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Melissa Soohoo, Onyebuchi A. Arah
Summary: Time-varying uncontrolled confounding can have a substantial impact on observed effect estimates. Given the importance of longitudinal studies in guiding public health, the impact of time-varying uncontrolled confounding should be recognized and evaluated using quantitative bias analysis.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Catherine Psaras, Annette Regan, Roch Nianogo, Onyebuchi A. Arah, Marissa J. Seamans
Summary: This study examined the impact of the 2011/2012 ACIP pertussis recommendation on pertussis incidence and mortality among US infants. The results suggest that the recommendation may have led to a decrease in pertussis incidence, but had no significant effect on infant pertussis mortality.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2023)
