Current context and evaluation of medical residency programs: experience of six Brazilian Medical Societies by GERSON ALVES PEREIRA JÚNIOR, RAMIRO COLLEONI NETO, JAIR GIAMPANI JÚNIOR, JORGE CARVALHO GUEDES, REGINALDO RAIMUNDO FUJITA, ADRIANO FERNANDO MENDES JÚNIOR, GUSTAVO SALATA ROMÃO, LUCAS NEPOMUCENO BARROS, LUIZ ALONSO DAVID, PAULO FERNANDO CONSTANCIO DE SOUZA, JOSÉ EDUARDO LUTAIF DOLCI, CESAR EDUARDO FERNANDES

“…ABSTRACT This article shows the most recent data on the evolution of the number of resident physicians and vacancies from R1 to R5, as well as the number of programs and institutions accredited by the National Commission for Medical Residency (CNRM). …”
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Clinical Practice Guideline for Suctioning the Airway of the Intubated and Non-Intubated Patient by Dina Brooks, Cathy M Anderson, Margaret A Carter, Laurie A Downes, Sean P Keenan, Carol J Kelsey, Janet B Lacy

“…OBJECTIVE: To provide physicians, physiotherapists, nurses and respiratory therapists with guidelines for the application of airway suctioning.…”
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Working Together and Being Physically Active Are Not Enough to Advise Uniformly and Adequately Low Back Pain Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study by C. Praz, J. Ducki, M. L. Connaissa, P. Terrier, P. Vuistiner, B. Léger, F. Luthi

“…The nurses were more restrictive and further away from the guidelines. The physicians were the most in line with them. The physiotherapists recommend as much physical activity, but less work activity than the physicians. …”
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Medical Liability of Residents in Taiwan Criminal Court: An Analysis of Closed Malpractice Cases by Kuan-Han Wu, Po-Chun Chuang, Chih-Min Su, Fu-Jen Cheng, Chien-Hung Wu, Fu-Cheng Chen, Yii-Ting Huang

“…By analyzing closed criminal malpractice claims involving resident physicians, we aimed to clarify the characteristics of litigations and examine the litigious errors leading to guilty verdicts. …”
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Lithuanian Scientific Medical Periodicals in the Third-Fifth Decade of the 20th Century (till 1944) by Silvija Stakulienė

“…Its contributors were famous physicians P. Avižonis, V. Lašas, V. Kuzma and others. …”
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Surveillance of Occupational Lung Diseases in Canada by Helen Dimich-Ward, Gustavo R Contreras, Roxanne Rousseau, Moira Chan-Yeung

“…It is recommend that physicians be educated, starting in medical school, about the recognition and diagnosis of occupational diseases and the importance of surveillance of chronic diseases. …”
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A Sign to Heaven: aVR Lead Elevation and Myocardial Infarction by Amir M. Nia, Natig Gassanov, Hannes Reuter, Fikret Er

“…Isolated ST-segment elevation only in the aVR lead, reflecting an acute myocardial infarction due to a left main coronary artery occlusion, was ignored as part of physicians' training in emergency medicine for a long time. …”
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How Nova Scotia General Practitioners Choose Antibiotics for the Empirical Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia by Jacob Pendergrast, Thomas J Marrie

“…OBJECTIVE: To gain an understanding of how physicians in general practice choose antibiotics for the empirical treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).…”
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The Impact of Social Interaction, Academic Achievement, and Cognitive Flexibility Levels on Clinical Reasoning: Statistical Discourse Analysis by Cetin Toraman, Canan Akman, Aysen Melek Aytug-Kosan, Gunes Korkmaz

“…This study aims to analyze the impact of intern physicians' social interaction during teamwork, their cognitive flexibility and academic achievement on clinical reasoning. …”
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Importance of Artificial Intelligence-based Radiography in the Examination and Treatment of Patients with Subacromial Impingement Syndrome by Aytan Akhundova

“…The treatment of pathologies attracts physicians of various specialties: orthopedic traumatologists, neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists, resuscitators, surgeons, neurologists, therapists, physiotherapists, and physical therapy physicians.…”
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Professional quality of life and psychopathological symptoms among first-line healthcare workers facing COVID-19 pandemic: an exploratory study in an Italian southern hospital by Simone Varrasi, Claudia Savia Guerrera, Giuseppe Alessio Platania, Sabrina Castellano, Concetta Pirrone, Pasquale Caponnetto, Costanza Nicolosi, Francesca Insanguine, Emanuela Greco, Mariacatena Perrone, Carmen Pulvirenti, Diletta Randazzo, Gabriele Ferro, Maurizio Consoli, Santo Di Nuovo

“… # Results The results showed higher levels of Secondary Traumatic Stress, Depression, Anxiety and Stress in women than in men. Physicians and nurses experienced lower levels of Compassion Satisfaction but higher Burnout than intermediate care technicians; likewise, nurses were more anxious than physicians. …”
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Traumatic Brain Injury and Hypopituitarism by Gianluca Aimaretti, Ezio Ghigo

“…In addition, endocrinologists and internists must be educated about TBI-induced hypopituitarism and encouraged to actively share their expertise with other physicians.…”
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Russian Non-Interventional Study of the Efficacy and Tolerability of Rifaximin-α Therapy in Patients with Uncomplicated Diverticular Disease under the Conditions of Outpatient Prac... by O. S. Shifrin, E. A. Poluektova, A. V. Korolev, T. I. Semenova, M. V. Shein, G. N. Leksikova, O. A. Tokareva, O. E. Davydova, P. S. Andreev, S. E. Katorkin, A. A. Chernov, A. V. Zhuravlev, O. S. Sek, A. A. Kopina, N. Yu. Samokhina, Yu. V. Gorozhankina, M. F. Samigullin, V. S. Groshilin, E. N. Borisova, T. A. Petrova, I. Yu. Pirogova, S. V. Mednikov, N. V. Smagin, A. S. Sarsenbaeva, N. V. Smirnova, L. G. Kirsanova, N. M. Malyutina, M. A. Smirnova, E. N. Shleikova, V. T. Ivashkin

“…This observational (non-interventional) study was aimed at obtaining data on practitioners’ commitment to prescribing rifaximin-α therapy to patients with uncomplicated diverticular disease (UDD), to assess patients’ adherence to such prescriptions, as well as to assess physicians’ and patients’ satisfaction with this drug under the conditions of outpatient practice.Materials and methods. 27 research physicians in 22 research centres located in 15 Russian cities and 250 patients participated in an open, prospective multicentre observational study. …”
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Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction for Microbiological Diagnosis of Parapneumonic Effusions in Canadian Children by Jeffrey M Pernica, Ioana Moldovan, Francis Chan, Robert Slinger

“…BACKGROUND: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) complicated by parapneumonic effusion/empyema is an infectious syndrome commonly encountered by physicians caring for children in Canada.…”
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European Working Time Directive and doctors’ health: a systematic review of the available epidemiological evidence by Consol Serra, Evangelia Demou, Ewan B Macdonald, Sergio Vargas-Prada, Maria Cruz Rodriguez-Jareño, Kaveh A Sanati, Alenka Škerjanc, Pedro G Reis, Ritva Helimäki-Aro

“…Objective To summarise the available scientific evidence on the health effects of exposure to working beyond the limit number of hours established by the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) on physicians.Design A systematic literature search was conducted in PubMed and EMBASE. …”
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Assessing anxiety symptoms and Traumatic Event Scale scores among medical staff during the COVID-19 pandemic in Colombia: a descriptive cohort study in Bogotá by Pablo Vásquez-Hoyos, Jhon Camacho-Cruz, Sara Marcela Torres Ayala, Susan Tatiana Cárdenas Rojas, Carolina Alexandra Zambrano Pérez, Juanita Yolanda Atuesta-Fajardo, Licet Villamizar-Gómez

“…A sample of 558 participants was taken. Physicians with prior diagnoses of psychiatric disorders were excluded. …”
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Round Ligament Leiomyoma Presenting as an Incarcerated Inguinal Hernia: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Marc Najjar, Marc Mandel

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A Forgotten Cause of Allergy at ER That Is Still Difficult to Diagnose and Treat at Poor Resource Setting: Angioedema after Using Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors for 4 Yea... by A. A. Nilanga Nishad, K. Arulmoly, S. A. S. Priyankara, P. K. Abeysundara

“…Most of the emergency physicians and centers are not aware of clinical diagnosis and diagnostic criteria including available diagnostic tests and more importantly the treatment options of ACEi-AE. …”
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Renal Denervation for Treating Resistant Hypertension: Current Evidence and Future Insights from a Global Perspective by Y. Castro Torres, Richard E. Katholi

“…Adequate blood pressure control represents an important goal for all physicians due to the complications of hypertension which reduce patients' quality of life. …”
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Digital Recording and Documentation of Endoscopic Procedures: Do Patients and Doctors Think Alike? by Nadav Willner, Maya Peled-Raz, Dan Shteinberg, Michal Shteinberg, Dean Keren, Tova Rainis

“…No sociodemographic or background factors predicted patient’s interest in DRD. 66% of the physicians reported having recording facilities in their institutions, but only 43.6% of them stated performing recording. …”
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