Nat Hum Behav
December 2024
Misinformation is a major focus of intervention efforts. Psychological inoculation-an intervention intended to help people identify manipulation techniques-is being adopted at scale around the globe. Yet the efficacy of this approach for increasing belief accuracy remains unclear, as prior work uses synthetic materials that do not contain claims of truth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRationale And Objectives: Historically radiology resident education has taken the form of workstation and didactic teaching. Due to increasing clinical demand and administrative burden for academic radiologists, the need for more efficient and effective teaching has increased. Flipped classroom teaching, where trainees independently learn material prior to interactive teaching sessions with faculty, is a possible alternative.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFCurr Probl Diagn Radiol
March 2024
Background: Liver cancer is a complex disease that presents many challenges in its diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. It's mortality rate in the United States is a significant and warrants attention.
Objective: To assess the trend of mortality rate due to HCC in the US from 1999 to 2020 by demographic groups for differences in trend of mortality.
Curr Probl Diagn Radiol
December 2023
The surging demand for diagnostic imaging has highlighted inefficiencies with traditional input devices. Radiologists, using conventional mice and keyboards, grapple with cumbersome shortcuts leading to fatigue, errors, and possible injuries. Gaming keyboards, designed for gamers' precision and adaptability, feature customizable keys that simplify complex tasks into single-touch actions, offering radiologists a more efficient workflow with less physical and mental strain.
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November 2023
The increasing demand for diagnostic imaging has added to the radiologists' workload, highlighting the shortcomings of conventional computer mice. Radiologists grapple with inefficiencies from frequent mouse clicks and keyboard shortcuts required for various PACS functions. These inefficiencies contribute to cognitive strain, errors, and repetitive strain injuries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext: Alopecia areata (AA) is the most common cause of inflammatory, nonscarring hair loss, involving hair-bearing areas of the body. The etiology of AA still remains uncertain; however, genetic, environmental, and autoimmunity play a role. Newer theories such as oxidative theory, HPA axis activation, and finally, the role of increased inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin 1 (IL1), tumor necrosis factor-alpha, interferon-gamma, IL-2 IL-4, and MIF are suggested to contribute to both AA and metabolic syndrome (MS).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFrom online textbooks to educational social media posts, digital learning tools are transforming medical education. Spaced repetition programs are a popular tool, with 70% of first-year medical students reporting using the free, open-source flashcard application Anki. The Anki program pairs active recall and spaced repetition learning principles with a simple but versatile user interface.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCurr Probl Diagn Radiol
June 2025
Shifting demographics within the United States population will likely continue to increase workplace demands of radiologists over the next decade, highlighting the importance of improving radiologist productivity and efficiency. Macropads may serve to optimize radiologist workstations by assigning complex repetitive tasks to a single press of a button. Information technology (IT) restrictions in many radiology practices limit the use of macropads, which often require software installation for use.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) becomes an integral component of healthcare, both undergraduate and graduate medical POCUS education is urgently necessary in curricula. Despite the apparent need of POCUS curricula, there remains a lingering question: Are there evidence-based benefits to POCUS training in undergraduate and/or graduate medical education settings? Qualitative review of research was conducted to identify common themes for benefits of POCUS and the requirements and/or characteristics for effective POCUS educational curricula. Results for undergraduate medical education were separated into preclinical and clinical education.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTwitter provides students with a centralized platform to learn about numerous opportunities within radiology. The platform can be immensely beneficial to students by providing opportunities to learn, network, connect with mentors, and find events while also preparing applicants for The Match. Having a prominent Twitter presence can pay dividends in the long term throughout one's training.
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November 2022
Given limited exposure to radiology during the pre-clinical and clinical years, it has been challenging to recruit medical students to radiology. Now, many medical students considering radiology as a career are deterred due to misinformation surrounding how AI implementation will affect radiologists in the future. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize the way in which medicine is practiced, especially in the field of radiology, and will ultimately support radiologists and advance the specialty.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
August 2022
This study compares the results of Tympanoplasty in terms of graft uptake and hearing improvement in patients with Chronic Otitis Media which are divided on the basis of discharging ear and non discharging ear with perforation at the time of surgery. Total 110 patients were selected suffering from chronic otitis media. Out which 55 patients had discharging ear (wet ear) and 55 patients had non discharging ear (dry ear).
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November 2022
Residency programs that effectively utilize social media (SoMe) have the potential to distinguish themselves and improve their resident recruitment. These platforms allow programs to connect with applicants they otherwise might have limited ability to reach before the interview season. We sought to evaluate the presence of SoMe across diagnostic radiology residency programs and highlight future trends that programs should account for.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRadiologists have shouldered a myriad of personal and professional burdens during the ongoing pandemic, leading to high levels of stress and burnout. Herein we discuss a set of strategies known as the 8-point program to help radiologists better cope with these stressors. Although the onus should be on leadership at the workplace to implement meaningful strategies to alleviate burnout, individual strategies such as the 8-point program can be beneficial for optimizing radiologist well-being in the read room.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe duodenum can be affected by a variety of abnormalities because of its development during embryogenesis and its dual intra- and retroperitoneal location. If small bowel embryogenesis is disturbed, congenital errors occur. Although some congenital variants may be asymptomatic and inconsequential to the patient, other anomalies can result in life-threatening emergencies such as malrotation, leading to midgut volvulus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur J Radiol
October 2022
Radiologists' personal productivity and efficiency are critically important for both improving patient outcomes and protecting clinician well-being. There are several solutions that individuals can implement to improve personal productivity and efficiency in the radiology workroom. Strategies include understanding the psychology behind productivity, using personal productivity methodologies to accomplish daily tasks, and learning to modulate stress to optimize performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF"Big data" has changed the way businesses operate in finance, insurance, communications, manufacturing, and logistics, with companies reporting successful outcomes from the implementation of data-driven analytics. Health care has slowly started leveraging big data analysis to identify more cost-efficient and effective care for patients. Business intelligence software aims to help with this transition, converting large data sets into useful, actionable information.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS
July 2020
Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS
May 2021
Context: Inguinal skin is prone to various infectious dermatological conditions such as erythrasma, intertrigo, hidradenitis suppurativa, folliculitis, dermatophytic infection, and various sexually transmitted diseases, as compared to the skin elsewhere.
Aim: Our study attempts to compare the biophysical profile parameters (BPPs) of the genital skin with that of the rest of the body, while taking skin of the upper back as control. It also attempts to find out if there is a difference in BPPs of the two sites and that how the change in the BPPs, bring about change in microbiome and make inguinal skin more prone to infections.
Curr Probl Diagn Radiol
February 2022
Objective: The Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) has been widely applied to CT and MR liver observations in patients at high-risk for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We investigated the impact of CT vs MR in upgrading LI-RADS 3 to LI-RADS 5 observations using a large cohort of high-risk patients.
Methods: We performed a retrospective, longitudinal study of CT and MR radiographic reports (June 2013 - February 2017) with an assigned LI-RADS category.