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This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Purpose: The residency interview is the most important factor for residency program directors when deciding on how to rank medical student applicants. With the residency match becoming increasingly competitive, it is more important than ever for students to perform well in this high-stakes interview. Video-stimulated recall (VSR) has been shown to be an effective tool for facilitating reflection on performance and behaviors. As such, we conducted mock interviews with and without video-stimulated recall to gauge its effect on student perceptions of preparedness and confidence for residency interviews. Methods: Students completed a pre-mock interview survey followed by a video recorded interview with faculty. All students received verbal feedback on their performance immediately after the interview. Students were randomized to receive their feedback from their faculty interviewer either while reviewing their video or without the video review. Post-mock interview and post-residency interview surveys were completed. Wilcoxon signed-rank was used to compare median aggregate scores between pre/post surveys. Wilcoxon rank-sum was used to compare pre/post aggregate scores between the video review vs. no-video review groups. Results: 33 of 70 students participated (47%). 14 students (42%) reviewed their video and 19 (58%) received feedback without video. Likert scores for pre- and post-mock interview and post-residency interview surveys revealed median aggregate scores of 10 (interquartile range, or IQR=8,11), 12 (IQR=12,13), and 13 (IQR=12,13) (p

PROBLEM Medical education today frequently includes standardized patient (SP) encounters to teach history-taking, physical exam, and communication skills. However, traditional wall-mounted cameras, used to record video for faculty and student feedback and evaluation, provide a limited view of key nonverbal communication behaviors during clinical encounters. APPROACH In 2013, 30 second-year medical students participated in an end-of-life module that included SP encounters in which the SPs used Google Glass to record their first-person perspective. Students reviewed the Google Glass video and traditional videos and then completed a postencounter, self-evaluation survey and a follow-up survey about the experience. OUTCOMES Google Glass was used successfully to record 30 student/SP encounters. One temporary Google Glass hardware failure was observed. Of the 30 students, 7 (23%) reported a "positive, nondistracting experience"; 11 (37%) a "positive, initially distracting experience"; 5 (17%) a "neutral experience"; and 3 (10%) a "negative experience." Four students (13%) opted to withhold judgment until they reviewed the videos but reported Google Glass as "distracting." According to follow-up survey responses, 16 students (of 23; 70%) found Google Glass "worth including in the [clinical skills program]," whereas 7 (30%) did not. NEXT STEPS Google Glass can be used to video record students during SP encounters and provides a novel perspective for the analysis and evaluation of their interpersonal communication skills and nonverbal behaviors. Next steps include a larger, more rigorous comparison of Google Glass versus traditional videos and expanded use of this technology in other aspects of the clinical skills training program.

How can physicians incorporate the electronic health record (EHR) into clinical practice in a relationship-enhancing fashion ("EHR ergonomics")?Three convenience samples of 40 second-year medical students with varying levels of EHR ergonomic training were compared in the 2012 spring semester. All participants first received basic EHR training and completed a presurvey. Two study groups were then instructed to use the EHR during the standardized patient (SP) encounter in each of four regularly scheduled Doctoring (clinical skills) course sessions. One group received additional ergonomic training in each session. Ergonomic assessment data were collected from students, faculty, and SPs in each session. A postsurvey was administered to all students, and data were compared across all three groups to assess the impact of EHR use and ergonomic training.There was a significant positive effect of EHR ergonomics skills training on students' relationship-centered EHR use (P.005). Students who received training reported that they were able to use the EHR to engage with patients more effectively, better articulate the benefits of using the EHR, better address patient concerns, more appropriately position the EHR device, and more effectively integrate the EHR into patient encounters. Additionally, students' self-assessments were strongly corroborated by SP and faculty assessments. A minimum of three ergonomic training sessions were needed to see an overall improvement in EHR use.In addition to replication of these results, further effectiveness studies of this educational intervention need to be carried out in GME, practice, and other environments.

In a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), we found an association between common haplotypes of the GAB2 gene and AD risk in carriers of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) e4 allele, the major late-onset AD susceptibility gene. We previously proposed the use of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) measurements as a quantitative pre-symptomatic endophenotype, more closely related to disease risk than the clinical syndrome itself, to help evaluate putative genetic and non-genetic modifiers of AD risk. In this study, we examined the relationship between the presence or absence of the relatively protective GAB2 haplotype and PET measurements of regional-to-whole brain FDG uptake in several AD-affected brain regions in 158 cognitively normal late-middle-aged APOEe4 homozygotes, heterozygotes, and non-carriers. GAB2 haplotypes were characterized using Affymetrix Genome-Wide Human SNP 6.0 Array data from each of these subjects. As predicted, the possibly protective GAB2 haplotype was associated with higher regional-to-whole brain FDG uptake in AD-affected brain regions in APOEe4 carriers. While additional studies are needed, this study supports the association between the possibly protective GAB2 haplotype and the risk of late-onset AD in APOEe4 carriers. It also supports the use of brain-imaging endophenotypes to help assess possible modifiers of AD risk.

Corrigendum to “Association between GAB2 haplotype and higher glucose metabolism in Alzheimer's disease-affected brain regions in cognitively normal APOEe4 carriers” [NeuroImage 54/3 (2011) 1896–1902] Winnie S. Liang , Kewei Chen , Wendy Lee , Kunal Sidhar , Jason J. Corneveaux , April N. Allen , Amanda Myers , Stephen Villa , Bessie Meechoovet , Jeremy Pruzin , Daniel Bandy , Adam S. Fleisher , Jessica B.S. Langbaum , Matthew J. Huentelman , Kendall Jensen , Travis Dunckley , Richard J. Caselli , Susan Kaib , Eric M. Reiman a,b,c,j,⁎