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Impact of virtual case-based collaborative learning compared to virtual lectures to teaching critical appraisal of medical literature in fourth-year medical students, a pilot mixed methods study.
(2021-07-19)
Introduction: Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a practice that allows clinicians to implement the best available evidence for our patients. However, there is no best way to teach EBM, and multiple strategies have been ...
Life after prison: Exploring how best to support formerly incarcerated opioid users as they seek employment
(2021-06-25)
The United States incarcerates 698 individuals per 100,000 residents – more per capita than any other nation (Wagner & Sawyer, 2020). An estimated 65% of incarcerated people have a substance use disorder (SUD) (NIDA, 2020). ...
Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy, Polypharmacy, and Virologic Failure in Women with HIV in the United States: Retrospective Cohort Analysis
(2022-05-10)
Background:
Women with HIV (WHIV) in the United States face many challenges with adherence to antiretroviral drugs and suboptimal adherence often leads to virologic failure.
Objectives:
The main aim of this study was ...
BAD NEWS BETTER: LEARNING BREAKING BAD NEWS DURING THE TIME OF A PANDEMIC
(2021-07-19)
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the medical education landscape. Medical educators have been faced with unique challenges in providing medical students with authentic learning experiences under unprecedented circumstances.
A ...
A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS ENABLING PHARMACEUTICAL CLINICAL TRIALS FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES
(2021-06-25)
With no cure or disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease (A.D.) and high-profile drug failures in recent clinical trials, there remains a global commitment to advancing dementia research and therapeutic innovation. ...
Social Epidemiology of Undocumented Ebola Virus Transmission in Liberia: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed-Methods Study
(2021-06-25)
Introduction: Despite the high number of EVD cases recorded during the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, our understanding of Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemiology remains limited. A significant gap in the knowledge ...
Assessment of Priority Non-Communicable Diseases and Injuries (NCDI) Interventions and Human Resourcing at Selected Health Facilities in Four Regions of Ethiopia
(2021-06-25)
Background and Rationale:
Non-communicable diseases and injuries (NCDIs) are now major causes of mortality and morbidity globally. The Ethiopian NCDI Commission launched in 2018, estimated the burden of NCDIs as the causes ...
THE CONTEXT OF INCREASING RESISTANCE TO POLIO VACCINATIONS AMONG THE PASHTUN COMMUNITY IN RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC AND QUALITATIVE STUDY
(2021-07-15)
Polio has successfully been eliminated from most of the world by immunizations. Pakistan, however, is one of the three countries on the globe where polio remains endemic. Much of this failure to eradicate polio from Pakistan ...
The Art of Teaching Empathy: Feasibility and Impact of Online Art-Based Education on Interns’ Empathy. A Pilot Quasi-Experimental Mixed Methods study
(2021-07-19)
Introduction. Empathy is an essential attribute for a physician of excellence. Nevertheless, its instruction has been left out in most medical curricula, and some studies have shown a decrease in empathy during training. ...
INTERGENERATIONAL EXPERIENCES OF FEMALE GENITAL CUTTING/MUTILATION AMONG WOMEN OF SUDANESE ORIGIN IN MASSACHUSETTS, USA
(2021-06-25)
Female genital cutting (FGC) plays a major role in increasing the gender gap in the Sudanese community. The FGC experience breaks women’s self-trust from childhood and makes them submissive and subservient to a world ...