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AMA Minority Affairs Section: 2016 AMA Annual Meeting
The AMA Minority Affairs Section (MAS) held its business meeting on Friday evening, June 10. The keynote speaker, Ronald Wyatt, MD, MHA, the patient safety officer for The Joint Commission, discussed health disparities, health equity, and physicians’ unconscious bias. The meeting also featured an open forum on AMA House of Delegates reports and resolutions that impact minority physicians and patients. The business meeting also included an awards presentation honoring 21 medical students who received the 2016 Minority Scholars Awards. Award recipients won $10,000 scholarships from the AMA Foundation.  The scholarships ...
Source: AMA Wire - June 12, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news

Improving Outcomes in Tendon Repair: A Critical Look at the Evidence for Flexor Tendon Repair and Rehabilitation
Conclusions: Early active mobilization remains the only long-term proven strategy to improve outcomes. Incorporating intraoperative mobilization using “wide-awake” surgery could emerge to further improve tendon outcomes. Good surgical approach, meticulous surgery, up-to-date physiotherapy regimens, and patient education remain the cornerstone of obtaining best outcomes.
Source: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - November 29, 2016 Category: Cosmetic Surgery Tags: CME Source Type: research

Evidence-Based Medicine: Reduction Mammaplasty
Learning Objectives: After reading this article, the participant should be able to: 1. Understand the multiple reduction mammaplasty techniques available for patients and describe the advantages and disadvantages associated with each. 2. Describe the indications for the treatment of macromastia in patients younger than 18 years. 3. Identify the preoperative indications for breast imaging before surgery. 4. Describe the benefits of breast infiltration with local anesthesia with epinephrine before surgery. 5. Understand the use of deep venous thrombosis prophylaxis in breast reduction surgery. 6. Describe when the use of dra...
Source: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - December 29, 2016 Category: Cosmetic Surgery Tags: MOC-CME Source Type: research

Anaesthesiologist and social media: Walking the fine line
S Kiran, Navdeep SethiIndian Journal of Anaesthesia 2018 62(10):743-746 Social media use is pervasive in society and has been rapidly amalgamated into the lives of anaesthesiologists. Using social media as an educational resource and ensuring an appropriate online presence is essential for professional growth. However, there are huge lacunae in editorial responsibility, peer review, and accountability of educational content on social media networks. The anaesthesiologist needs to be aware of the numerous shortcomings and must use social media responsibly. Following etiquettes, adopting a code of conduct and a high sense o...
Source: Indian Journal of Anaesthesia - October 9, 2018 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: S Kiran Navdeep Sethi Source Type: research

Evolving safety practices in the setting of modern complex operating room: role of nurses.
Authors: Niu L, Li HY, Tang W, Gong S, Zhang LJ Abstract Operating room (OR) nursing previously referred to patient care provided during the intra-operative phase and the service provided within the OR itself. With the expansion of responsibilities of nurses, OR nursing now includes pre-operative and post-operative periods, therefore peri-operative nursing is accepted as a nursing process in OR in the contemporary medical literature. Peri-operative nurses provide care to the surgical patients during the entire process of surgery. They have several roles including those of manager or a director, clinical practitione...
Source: Journal of Biological Regulators and Homeostatic Agents - September 30, 2017 Category: Biomedical Science Tags: J Biol Regul Homeost Agents Source Type: research

A survey of learning methods used by Plastic Surgery and Anaesthetics trainees in burn care
Continuing medical education is essential for all medical professions at all levels and burns is usually an area which trainees find challenging. This is partly due to the fact that burns are usually managed in specialised centres so trainees have limited exposure, in addition to the complex nature of burns morbidity and mortality. Both Plastic Surgery and Anaesthetics trainees are essential in providing care to burns patients. Methods of acquiring knowledge by trainees in burn care are generally unknown.
Source: Burns : Journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries - February 3, 2018 Category: Cosmetic Surgery Authors: Salma Mohamed, Jonathan Dunne, Jeremy Rawlins Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research

Wake up to the gender gap in academic anesthesiology and address the pipeline
Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2022 Oct 19;36(1):135-137. doi: 10.1080/08998280.2022.2128624. eCollection 2023.ABSTRACTDiversity, equity, and inclusion are important values in health care and academic medicine. Although women have comprised nearly 50% of all US medical school graduates since the early 2000s, gender disparities continue in many specialties and persist in medical education leadership. For women in anesthesiology, gender inequities exist along the academic pipeline, with greater disparity in the higher ranks of academia and leadership. Successful endeavors to improve gender equity in the specialty include increas...
Source: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings - December 29, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Bridget M Marroquin Source Type: research