Pilot testing of an online cultural competency training utilizing an intersectionality framework.

Background: Current cultural competency training aiming to decrease implicit bias amongst medical students, residents, and physicians shows mixed effectiveness. To address limitations in existing training, the authors developed an online training (a) grounded in an intersectional approach to patients' identities and the disparities they experience; and (b) focused on communication skills. The authors hypothesized that the training would increase learners' knowledge, attitudes, and communication efficacy.

Healing Health Care Disparities: Development and Pilot Testing of a Virtual Reality Implicit Bias Training Module for Physicians in the Context of Black Maternal Health.

Grounded in communication models of cultural competence, this study reports on the development and testing of the first module in a larger virtual reality (VR) implicit bias training for physicians to help them better: (a) recognize implicit bias and its effects on communication, patients, and patient care; (b) identify their own implicit biases and exercise strategies for managing them; and (c) learn and practice communicating with BIPOC patients in a culture-centered manner that demonstrates respect and builds trust. Led by communication faculty, a large, interdisciplinary team of researchers, clinicians, and engineers developed the first module tested herein focused on training goal (a). Within the module, participants observe five scenes between patient Marilyn Hayes (a Black woman) and Dr.

Review of approvals and recalls of US specific medical devices in general and plastic surgery.

Background: Medical devices in the United States can be FDA approved either by the premarket notification (510(k)) or premarket approval process (PMA). Applications for PMA are more intensive than 510(k). This study aims to compare the recall rates of 510(k) and PMA General and Plastic Surgery (Surgery) devices and to educate physicians about potential flaws in the approval process.

Bupivacaine causes cytotoxicity in mouse C2C12 myoblast cells: involvement of ERK and Akt signaling pathways.

Aim: The adverse effects of local anesthetics (LAs) on wound healing at surgical sites have been suggested, and may be related to their cytotoxicity. This study was aimed to compare the cellular toxicity of bupivacaine and lidocaine (two well-known LAs), and to explore the molecular mechanism(s).

Methods: Toxicity of bupivacaine and lidocaine was assessed in cultured mouse C2C12 myoblasts by cell viability and apoptosis assays.