Objectives: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic generated the need for a teaching tool for enhancing remote education and evaluation of medical trainees. Smart glasses are being explored as a hands-free teaching tool for teleconferencing with hands-on demonstrations in addition to livestreaming capability. We wanted to understand the efficacy of such…
Objectives: Almost 15% of all US births occur in rural hospitals, yet rural hospitals are closing at an alarming rate because of shortages of delivering clinicians, nurses, and anesthesia support. We describe maternity staffing patterns in successful rural hospitals across North Carolina. Methods: All of the hospitals in the state…
Objectives: The opioid epidemic has resulted in rising rates of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in women of childbearing age. With this changing epidemiology in mind, the Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases guidelines were updated in 2018 to recommend screening all pregnant women…
Objectives: Our objectives were to assess physician knowledge of costs of products, tests, and services commonly used by obstetrician/gynecologists (OB/GYNs) and identify those items that could be eliminated without decreasing quality of care by performing a prospective observational pilot study. Methods: An anonymous electronic survey was distributed to 70 OB/GYN…
Objective: To determine the prevalence of burnout in residents in obstetrics and gynecology through the use of a validated tool. Methods: The Maslach Burnout Inventory Human Services questionnaire is a previously validated tool that measures burnout. Obstetrics and gynecology residents from Texas were invited to participate in this study in…
Objectives: Aeromedical obstetrical transports are mostly performed utilizing helicopters. The program here reviewed performs mostly fixed-wing transports. The purpose of the current study is to review our fixed-wing transfers and identify the complications encountered. Methods: A retrospective review was conducted of the fixed-wing obstetrical air transports performed by the StatCare…
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