Japanese Immigration in America: Fleeing Riots, Escaping Imprisonment, and Assimilating
Am Surg. 2024 Feb 19:31348241234314. doi: 10.1177/00031348241234314. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhen 13-year-old Teruichi Nakayama, my grandfather, came to San Francisco from Osaka in 1906, he was assured of an education in a public school by an 1894 treaty between the United States and Japan that gave the latter most-favored-nation status. In 1906, racist mobs forced a decision by the school board to assign 41 school aged Japanese children, including him, to a segregated school for Asian children in violation of the pact. In 1907, he escaped street violence to work as a migrant laborer on inland farms. Settling in the ...
Source: The American Surgeon - February 19, 2024 Category: Surgery Authors: Don K Nakayama Source Type: research

Japanese Immigration in America: Fleeing Riots, Escaping Imprisonment, and Assimilating
Am Surg. 2024 Feb 19:31348241234314. doi: 10.1177/00031348241234314. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWhen 13-year-old Teruichi Nakayama, my grandfather, came to San Francisco from Osaka in 1906, he was assured of an education in a public school by an 1894 treaty between the United States and Japan that gave the latter most-favored-nation status. In 1906, racist mobs forced a decision by the school board to assign 41 school aged Japanese children, including him, to a segregated school for Asian children in violation of the pact. In 1907, he escaped street violence to work as a migrant laborer on inland farms. Settling in the ...
Source: The American Surgeon - February 19, 2024 Category: Surgery Authors: Don K Nakayama Source Type: research

Perceptions and Expectations Regarding the Step 1 Score Change Among Surgical and Non-Surgical Program Directors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Am Surg. 2024 Feb 2:31348241230093. doi: 10.1177/00031348241230093. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThere are currently no studies examining differences in perceptions and expected impact of the Step 1 score change to pass/fail between surgical and non-surgical program directors (PDs). We conducted a systematic review in May 2023 of PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and PSYCInfo to evaluate studies examining PDs' perspectives regarding the Step 1 score change. We performed random-effects meta-analyses to determine differences in perspectives among surgical and non-surgical PDs. Surgical PDs (76.8% [95% CI, 72.1%-82.0%], I2 = 5...
Source: The American Surgeon - February 2, 2024 Category: Surgery Authors: Nitin Srinivasan Jamil S Samaan Agnes Premkumar Nithya D Rajeev Yee Hui Yeo Kamran Samakar Source Type: research

Perceptions and Expectations Regarding the Step 1 Score Change Among Surgical and Non-Surgical Program Directors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Am Surg. 2024 Feb 2:31348241230093. doi: 10.1177/00031348241230093. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThere are currently no studies examining differences in perceptions and expected impact of the Step 1 score change to pass/fail between surgical and non-surgical program directors (PDs). We conducted a systematic review in May 2023 of PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and PSYCInfo to evaluate studies examining PDs' perspectives regarding the Step 1 score change. We performed random-effects meta-analyses to determine differences in perspectives among surgical and non-surgical PDs. Surgical PDs (76.8% [95% CI, 72.1%-82.0%], I2 = 5...
Source: The American Surgeon - February 2, 2024 Category: Surgery Authors: Nitin Srinivasan Jamil S Samaan Agnes Premkumar Nithya D Rajeev Yee Hui Yeo Kamran Samakar Source Type: research

Perceptions and Expectations Regarding the Step 1 Score Change Among Surgical and Non-Surgical Program Directors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Am Surg. 2024 Feb 2:31348241230093. doi: 10.1177/00031348241230093. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThere are currently no studies examining differences in perceptions and expected impact of the Step 1 score change to pass/fail between surgical and non-surgical program directors (PDs). We conducted a systematic review in May 2023 of PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, and PSYCInfo to evaluate studies examining PDs' perspectives regarding the Step 1 score change. We performed random-effects meta-analyses to determine differences in perspectives among surgical and non-surgical PDs. Surgical PDs (76.8% [95% CI, 72.1%-82.0%], I2 = 5...
Source: The American Surgeon - February 2, 2024 Category: Surgery Authors: Nitin Srinivasan Jamil S Samaan Agnes Premkumar Nithya D Rajeev Yee Hui Yeo Kamran Samakar Source Type: research