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Objective: This text seeks to describe a framework for delivering and executing a virtual patient counseling OSCE and compare student performance to the in-person alternative. Methods: A communication-based virtual patient counseling objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) was created to fulfill the educational outcomes of a previously held in-person OSCE in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The virtual nature of this OSCE simulated a telehealth encounter, which has increased in utilization since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This OSCE was offered twice in one semester - once as a formative assessment and once as a summative assessment. Student performance was mapped to learning outcomes and compared the previous year's in person performance. Results: The described virtual framework for executing the OSCE successfully decreased the time required and saw <1% change in overall performance from students when compared to the previous year in person which was not statistically significant. Conclusion: This framework for a virtual communication-based OSCE reduces time with a negligible impact on student performance compared to the in person alternative. Innovation: This work describes a telehealth virtual patient counseling model to replace the traditional patient counseling OSCE in pharmacy education with comparable outcomes.
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A four-arm study was undertaken in Japan to determine the puffing topography, mouth level exposure and average daily consumption by consumers of the tobacco heating products (THPs): the non-mentholated THP1.0(T), the mentholated THP1.0(M) and a tobacco heating system (THS). The extent of lip blocking of air inlet holes while using THP1.0(T) was also assessed. Groups 1, 2, and 4 included smokers, and group 3 included regular THP users. Smokers of 7-8 mg ISO nicotine free dry particulate matter (NFDPM) non-mentholated cigarettes took on average larger mean puff volumes from THPs than from conventional cigarettes, but puff numbers and durations were similar. Mouth level exposure to NFDPM and nicotine levels were significantly lower when using THPs than conventional cigarettes. Similar trends were observed among smokers of 7-8 mg ISO NFDPM mentholated cigarettes who used mentholated cigarettes and THP1.0(M). Regular users of commercial THS had similar puffing behaviours irrespective of whether they were using THS or THP1.0(T), except for mean puff volume which was lower with THP1.0(T). No smokers blocked the air inlet holes when using THP1.0(T). The puffing topography results support the machine puffing regime used to generate toxicant emissions data and in vitro toxicology testing.
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Sistemas Eletrônicos de Liberação de Nicotina/métodos , Calefação/métodos , Exposição por Inalação/análise , Mucosa Bucal/efeitos dos fármacos , Nicotina/análise , Produtos do Tabaco/análise , Adulto , Sistemas Eletrônicos de Liberação de Nicotina/instrumentação , Feminino , Calefação/instrumentação , Humanos , Japão/epidemiologia , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Mucosa Bucal/metabolismo , Nicotina/administração & dosagem , Material Particulado/administração & dosagem , Material Particulado/análise , Adulto JovemRESUMO
With the rapidly rising popularity and substantial evolution of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) in the past 5-6 years, how these devices are used by vapers and consumers' exposure to aerosol emissions need to be understood. We used puffing topography to measure directly product use. We adapted a cigarette puffing topography device for use with e-cigarettes. We performed validation using air and e-cigarette aerosol under multiple regimes. Consumer puffing topography was measured for 60 vapers provided with rechargeable "cig-a-like" or larger button-activated e-cigarettes, to use ad-libitum in two sessions. Under all regimes, air puff volumes were within 1 mL of the target and aerosol volumes within 5 mL for all device types, serving to validate the device. Vapers' mean puff durations (2.0 s and 2.2 s) were similar with both types of e-cigarette, but mean puff volumes (52.2 mL and 83.0 mL) and mean inter-puff intervals (23.2 s and 29.3 s) differed significantly. The differing data show that product characteristics influence puffing topography and, therefore, the results obtained from a given e-cigarette might not read across to other products. Understanding the factors that affect puffing topography will be important for standardising testing protocols for e-cigarette emissions.