Ambulatory Curriculum Enhancing Education for Modern Resident Learners.

Introduction: Data on the implementation of successful pediatric ambulatory curricula in residency are limited. Although most pediatric residents pursue careers in primary care, the educational focus in residency training sways toward inpatient medicine. Barriers exist to standardized, consistent teaching in the outpatient clinic.

Usefulness of two clinical chorioamnionitis definitions in predicting neonatal infectious outcomes: a systematic review.

Objective: To assess the usefulness of two definitions of acute clinical chorioamnionitis (ACCA) in predicting risk of neonatal infectious outcomes (NIO) and mortality, the first definition requiring maternal fever alone (Fever), and the second requiring ≥ 1 Gibbs criterion besides fever (Fever + 1).

Study Design: PubMed, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews were searched from January 1, 1979 to April 9, 2013. Twelve studies were reviewed (of 316 articles identified): three studies with term patients, four with preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) patients, and five mixed studies with mixed gestational ages and/or membrane status (intact and/or ruptured).