Background: Specialty career choice is a critical decision for medical students, and research
has examined factors influencing particular specialties or assessed it from a demographic …

The purpose of this study was to determine whether student devised and delivered supplemental
instruction is beneficial and acceptable to first-year medical students. A student-run …

Gastroenteritis accounts for nearly 500,000 deaths in children younger than 5 years
annually. Although probiotics have been touted as having the potential to expedite diarrhea …

Phenomenon: A growing number of women are entering the medical workforce, yet their
distribution across medical specialties remains nonuniform. We sought to describe how culture, …

Clinical pathways translate evidence-based recommendations into locally practicable,
process-specific algorithms that reduce practice variations and optimize quality of care. Our …

Amber teething necklaces supposedly provide analgesia for teething infants. Their use is
becoming more widespread, despite lack of peer-reviewed evidence and warnings from Health …

Compositional analysis of the intestinal microbiome in pre-schoolers is understudied. Effects
of probiotics on the gut microbiota were evaluated in children under 4-years-old presenting …

Purpose The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is a widely employed tool
for measuring clinical competence. In the drive toward comprehensive assessment, OSCE …

BackgroundDespite evidence demonstrating the advantages of metered-dose inhalers with
spacers (MDI-s), nebulization (NEB) remains the primary method of asthma treatment in …

Objectives Health care providers that experience harm after adverse events have been termed
“second victims.” Our objective was to characterize the range and context of interventions …