In the United States, the 40 colleges of osteopathic medicine and 157 schools of allopathic
medicine face challenges in recruiting candidates who are underrepresented in medicine (…

Background: In 2020, African Americans represented only 1.4% of plastic surgeons despite
comprising 12.4% of the US population, with Latinos making up 3.6% of plastic surgeons …

The present study examines process and outcome measures associated with three forms of
support for conducting an unfamiliar surgical task: an unaided control condition, a video …

Compartment syndrome is characterized as an excess in swelling leading to an increase in
pressure in a limited space and a lower extremity fasciotomy is performed to mitigate the …

Background Compartment syndrome is the excess swelling within an inelastic compartment
leading to excessive compartment pressure. Lower limb trauma has a high risk of …

This project explores techniques for rapid emergency refreshing of critical combat surgical
skills to improve the performance and outcome of trauma surgical procedures. The project …

Background: Away rotations are essential for increasing an applicants’ chances of matching
to a plastic surgery program. Financial constraints exist for students attempting to complete …

We previously proposed that macrophage agglutination factor (MAggF, a T cell-derived
guinea pig lymphokine) is a fibronectin (FN). We now show MAggF binding to gelatin and to …

We have studied concurrent production of macrophage agglutination factor (MAggF) and
procoagulant activity by antigen-stimulated human blood mononuclear cells to gain insight into …

We propose to evaluate the efficacy of a video-based step-by-step approach medic Surgical
Technical Assistance Tool, mSTAT to enable medics to perform more advanced surgical …