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Med Educ ; 55(7): 850-856, 2021 07.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33794035

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the impact of interview date on the applicant rank for Neurology residencies in the United States. METHODS: A multi-institutional retrospective review of interview dates and applicant rank list data for the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) was conducted for five Neurology programs, totaling 1932 interviewed applicants over a combined total of 31 interview years. For each candidate, the interview date and applicant rank were abstracted along with the total number of interviews for that season. Statistical analyses were completed on the cumulative institution data set as well for each individual institution to assess for a possible relationship between interview date and applicant rank. RESULTS: The cumulative institutional analysis showed that the mean applicant rank decreased as the interview season progressed. Applicants who interviewed on the first day of the interview season were ranked 11.4% higher than those who interviewed on the last interview day. Additionally, applicants interviewed on the first interview day more likely to be ranked higher when compared to all other interview dates. Independent analysis of each program's data identified comparable, statistically significant, differences in mean applicant rank and interview position at three out of the five institutions. CONCLUSIONS: This study evaluated the impact of interview order on the ranking of applicants by Neurology residency programs, noting a temporal relationship with applicant rank and interview date. The primacy bias appreciated in our data merits further evaluation in other medical specialties. Strategies to minimize the impact of this bias should be employed by residency programs who use medical matching services.


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Internship and Residency , Medicine , Humans , Retrospective Studies , United States
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J Neurooncol ; 125(2): 393-400, 2015 Nov.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-26376654

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Brain tumor cells invade adjacent normal brain along white matter (WM) bundles of axons. We therefore hypothesized that the location of tumor intersecting WM tracts would be associated with differing survival. This study introduces a method, voxel-wise survival analysis (VSA), to determine the relationship between the location of brain tumor intersecting WM tracts and patient prognosis. 113 primary glioblastoma (GBM) patients were retrospectively analyzed for this study. Patient specific tumor location, defined by contrast-enhancement, was combined with diffusion tensor imaging derived tractography to determine the location of axons intersecting tumor enhancement (AXITEs). VSA was then used to determine the relationship between the AXITE location and patient survival. Tumors intersecting the right anterior thalamic radiation (ATR), right inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF), right and left cortico-spinal tract (CST), and corpus callosum (CC) were associated with decreased overall survival. Tumors intersecting the CST, body of the CC, right ATR, posterior IFOF, and inferior longitudinal fasciculus are associated with decreased progression-free survival (PFS), while tumors intersecting the right genu of the CC and anterior IFOF are associated with increased PFS. Patients with tumors intersecting the ATR, IFOF, CST, or CC had significantly improved survival prognosis if they were additionally treated with bevacizumab. This study demonstrates the usefulness of VSA by locating AXITEs associated with poor prognosis in GBM patients. This information should be included in patient-physician conversations, therapeutic strategy, and clinical trial design.


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Brain Neoplasms/pathology , Glioblastoma/pathology , White Matter/pathology , Angiogenesis Inhibitors/therapeutic use , Bevacizumab/therapeutic use , Brain Neoplasms/drug therapy , Brain Neoplasms/metabolism , Corpus Callosum/pathology , Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Disease-Free Survival , Female , Glioblastoma/drug therapy , Glioblastoma/mortality , Humans , Image Processing, Computer-Assisted , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Male , Prognosis , Pyramidal Tracts/pathology , Retrospective Studies , Survival Analysis
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Otolaryngol Clin North Am ; 47(2): 221-37, 2014 Apr.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24680490

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We review the therapies for primary headache disorders: migraine, chronic migraine, tension-type headache, and cluster headache. Recommendations follow the evidence-based treatments so far as is possible with expert opinion to give clinical guidance. Headache has 2 levels of care: acute treatments designed to stop a headache from progressing and alleviate all symptoms associated with the headache and preventive therapies for patients whose headache frequency is such that by itself produces significant disability and impact on quality of life, or where the frequency of use of acute medications, regardless of efficacy, poses risks in terms of overuse or adverse events.


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Headache/drug therapy , Migraine Disorders/drug therapy , Analgesics/adverse effects , Analgesics/therapeutic use , Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic/adverse effects , Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic/therapeutic use , Botulinum Toxins, Type A/adverse effects , Botulinum Toxins, Type A/therapeutic use , Clinical Trials, Phase III as Topic , Headache/prevention & control , Humans , Migraine Disorders/prevention & control , Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic , Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors/adverse effects , Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors/therapeutic use , Tension-Type Headache/drug therapy , Tension-Type Headache/prevention & control , Tryptamines/adverse effects , Tryptamines/therapeutic use
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