Browsing by Author "Rose, Jennifer"

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    “Doctors’ Lounge” podcast to teach clinical reasoning to first-year medical students
    (Taylor & Francis, 2018-06-14) Brown, Shilpa; Wood, Elena; McCollum, Daniel; Pelletier, Allen; Rose, Jennifer; Wallach, Paul; School of Education
    This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. In the first year of medical school, our students have a comprehensive course in history taking, physical examination skills, clinical reasoning, and patient-centered care. We have observed that first year students struggle to conduct a focused history and perform a focused physical examination on a given chief complaint. We developed an innovative program to address this concern in our Essentials of Medicine- Physical Diagnosis course. We created an online outline and audio podcast for students to review illustrating the key elements of the history of presenting illness, review of systems, other historical patient information, and focused physical examination for 3 specific chief complaints to assist them in their approach to these patients. This resource also included the discussion of the work up and treatment plans and was created in collaboration of Internal, Family, and Emergency Medicine to account for the various approaches to the same chief complaint within the various specialites of medicine. Students completed a brief pre- and post-session survey to assess their utilization of the resource, quality of the content, and delivery of the session materials. The preceptor's were also surveyed regarding the students' ability to conduct a patient encounter and discuss their assessment and plan comparing current students to those in previous years who did not use this resource. We also asked for feedback on how these resources might be improved for future use. The resource was highly effective for first-year medical students in preparation for focused history taking and physical examination of a patient with a specific chief complaint. Students were more engaged in the critical reasoning discussion of the case assessment and plan after using this resource and preceptors were in agreement. We believe this model we called the "Doctors' Lounge" developed for the chief complaints of sore throat, chest pain, and abdominal pain can be replicated at any medical school desiring to introduce or enhance teaching of clinical reasoning skills to their preclinical students.
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    A visual evaluation of oral plaque removal utilizing an adjunct enzyme pre-rinse in orthodontic subjects
    (Allen Press, 2020-11-01) Rose, Jennifer; Ghoneima, Ahmed; Lippert, Frank; Maxwell, Lisa; Eckert, George; Stewart, Kelton T.; Orthodontics and Oral Facial Genetics, School of Dentistry
    Objective: To determine if an adjunct proteolytic pre-rinse along with contemporary methods of dental cleaning may more effectively remove visual plaque in subjects with fixed orthodontic appliances. Materials and methods: Forty-three orthodontic subjects, ages 10 to 25, completed this single site, double-blind, crossover clinical trial. Subjects randomly received bromelain enzyme or a powdered-sugar placebo pre-rinse, followed by manual tooth brushing and use of a Waterpik. Subjects received the alternate pre-rinse during the subsequent visit. Baseline and residual plaque accumulation were recorded via disclosing tablet and digital photography. A single, blinded examiner scored visual plaque scores from randomized photographs. Treatment effects on composite plaque score were evaluated using repeated-measures analysis of variance. A 5% significance level was used for all tests. Results: No significant differences in plaque scores were noted at baseline or post-rinse between the enzyme and placebo. The changes from baseline to post-rinse (P = .190), post-brushing (P = .764), and post-Waterpik (P = .882) were not significantly different between interventions. Significant reduction in plaque scores were observed in both arms of the study after brushing (P < .01) and waterjet use (P < .01). Neither age (P = .220) nor gender (P = .449) impacted plaque scores. Conclusions: Use of a bromelain enzyme pre-rinse alone did not significantly enhance plaque removal. A significant reduction in retained plaque was observed with the application of brushing and or Waterpik.