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Impact Over 3 Years of a Family Medicine-led Addiction Medicine Curriculum for Medical Students
CONCLUSIONS: Data from our LIC showed promise that the model can be effective in building confidence in students' abilities to practice addiction medicine. Because of its broad reach and low cost, this form of medical education may be a key model for medical schools to respond to the opioid epidemic and better serve our patients.PMID:37450939 | DOI:10.22454/FamMed.2023.234746
Source: Famly Medicine - July 14, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Anne Keenan Elizabeth Sopdie Jack Keilty Kirby Clark Source Type: research

Most Doctors Are Ill-Equipped to Deal With the Opioid Epidemic. Few Medical Schools Teach Addiction.
It ’ s one of the biggest, most expensive American health crises in memory. But the field of addiction medicine is fairly new.
Source: NYT Health - September 10, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JAN HOFFMAN Tags: Addiction (Psychology) Education Accreditation Opioids and Opiates Medical Schools Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Boston Medical Center Addiction Treatment Source Type: news

The global epidemic of thyroid cancer overdiagnosis illustrated using 18  months of consecutive nodule biopsy correlating clinical priority, ACR‐TIRADS and Bethesda scoring
This article illustrates the use of TIRADS at a New Zealand tertiary centre, during its introduction, with all nodules unde rgoing fine‐needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) correlated with clinical referral priority and cytological Bethesda score. The correlation between TIRADS and Bethesda score was not significant but cytology had a strong association with clinical priority. Accuracy of TIRADS was poor though the risk of malignancy for TIRADS 5 nodules was 5.1 times those rated as TIRADS 3. After TIRADS was introduced, there was no significant trend in the proportion of malignant nodules diagnosed by FNAB. Despite an incomp...
Source: Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology - March 5, 2021 Category: Radiology Authors: Stewart P Hawkins, Sophy G Jamieson, Christin N Coomarasamy, Irene C Low Tags: Medical Imaging —Review Article Source Type: research

Sex Education and Sexual Risk Behavior among Adolescents and Youth in the Deep South: Implications for Youth HIV Prevention
CONCLUSIONS: AOUM sex education programs are ineffective in reducing HIV vulnerability among youth in Mississippi. There is an urgent need to implement comprehensive sex education if we are to reduce the numbers of new HIV infections among youth and achieve our goals of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030.PMID:35504611 | DOI:10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001391
Source: Southern Medical Journal - May 3, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Paul A Burns Fei Teng Angela A Omondi E Thomaseo Burton Lori Ward Source Type: research