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A comparison of medical education in Germany and the United States: From applying to medical school to the beginnings of residency [PDF]
Both Germany and the United States of America have a long tradition of science and medical excellence reaching back as far as the nineteenth century. The same tribute must be paid to the medical educational system in both countries.
Gansbacher, Bernd+3 more
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Learning Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes Using Causal Tree Methods in Medicine [PDF]
Dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs) are used in medicine to tailor sequential treatment decisions to patients by considering patient heterogeneity. Common methods for learning optimal DTRs, however, have shortcomings: they are typically based on outcome prediction and not treatment effect estimation, or they use linear models that are restrictive for ...
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Do coursework summative assessments predict clinical performance? A systematic review [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Two goals of summative assessment in health profession education programs are to ensure the robustness of high stakes decisions such as progression and licensing, and predict future performance.
Hing, Wayne+3 more
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Background United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 will transition from numeric grading to pass/fail, sometime after January 2022. The aim of this study was to compare how program directors in orthopaedics and internal medicine perceive a pass/
Frederick Mun+8 more
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Context While recent streamlining of the graduate medical education process signals an important change from the traditional dichotomy between doctors of osteopathic medicine (DOs) and US-trained doctors of medicine (USMDs), this new uniformity does not ...
Michał Gajewski+7 more
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AdaMedGraph: Adaboosting Graph Neural Networks for Personalized Medicine [PDF]
Precision medicine tailored to individual patients has gained significant attention in recent times. Machine learning techniques are now employed to process personalized data from various sources, including images, genetics, and assessments. These techniques have demonstrated good outcomes in many clinical prediction tasks.
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USMLE Scores Do Not Predict the Clinical Performance of Emergency Medicine Residents [PDF]
Background: Scores on “high-stakes” multiple choice exams such as the United States Medical Licensing Examination® (USMLE) are important screening and applicant ranking criteria used by residencies.Objective: We tested the hypothesis that USMLE scores do
Ramoska, Edward A+2 more
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Should Osteopathic Students Applying to Allopathic Emergency Medicine Programs Take the USMLE Exam?
Introduction: Board scores are an important aspect of an emergency medicine (EM) residency application. Residency directors use these standardized tests to objectively evaluate an applicant’s potential and help decide whether to interview a candidate ...
Moshe Weizberg+4 more
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Pharmacogenomics Instruction Depth, Extent, and Perception in US Medical Curricula
Introduction: This descriptive study aimed to evaluate the depth, extent, and perception of pharmacogenomics instruction in schools and colleges of medicine in the United States.
Dara Basyouni, Aymen Shatnawi
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This work presents a method to create neuron‐like (neuromorphic) spiking representations of texture that are invariant to the scanning speed and contact force applied in the tactile sensing process. In offline and real‐time experiments, these representations improve classification accuracy, computational efficiency, and the ability to identify textures
Mark M. Iskarous+9 more
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