research

Students with disabilities with intersecting identities experience different types of discrimination based on race, ethnicity, and sex, emphasizing the importance of addressing multiple, overlapping forms of discrimination in medical education.

This study developed and evaluated a named entity recognition (NER) framework that enables automated extraction of nuanced language information from clinical narratives with high accuracy and generalizability. This work supports large-scale, language-focused research and has practical implications for improving patient-provider communication, interpreter service allocation, and equitable healthcare delivery.

Multi-site research involving big data from the electronic health record (EHR) requires ample planning and execution time. Adopting a single standardized data use agreement (DUA) and developing data dictionaries that can be shared for research will improve the data acquisition phase of multi-site research studies.

Accommodation approvals were less likely for those with psychological or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder diagnoses, diagnoses after medical school matriculation, and those from schools without specialized disability resource professionals (DRPs).

Primary care settings are crucial as they are often the only point of contact patients may have with healthcare providers. Challenges in primary care related to SUD pharmacotherapy—such as (historical) prescribing restrictions, variable experience in prescribing, workforce shortages, and stigma—continue to restrict timely access to life-saving treatment. Pharmacists are ideal partners to close this gap.

Interdisciplinary collaboration drives the editorial process, and medical journals are uniquely positioned to meet several emerging needs of early-career researchers.

Mixed methods study explores the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and resilience among unhoused transitional-aged youth (TAY) at an urban medical clinic. 

Student knowledge and staff perceptions of policy enforcement were associated with lower e-cigarette use. Findings suggest that consistent enforcement and school-wide communication, not just policy presence, are essential for impact.

This paper develops a novel framework for the ethical evaluation of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), explored through the example of trials on endovascular thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke. In this framework, RCTs are categorized into four quadrants, where justification in each quadrant relates to different thresholds for permissibility (the ethical defensibility of the trial) and necessity (the social and scientific importance of conducting the trial).

Cross-sectional study investigates rates of application, acceptance, and matriculation by race and ethnicity into doctor of medicine programs before and after the Supreme Court’s 2023 Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v President and Fellows of Harvard College affirmative action decision.