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R D Garcia

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PubMed1995

Lateral sinus thrombosis associated with otitis media and mastoiditis in children.

Lateral sinus thrombosis (LST) is an infrequent complication of otitis media and mastoiditis in the antibiotic era. A recent case of LST in a 7-year-old boy, the third such case at our institutions in the past 5 years, prompted a review of the modern day English literature concerning LST in pediatric patients. Our goal was to highlight the clinical findings suggestive of LST in the antibiotic era as well as to analyze retrospectively the diagnostic and therapeutic modalities of greatest benefit based on the outcomes reported in the reviewed studies.

Anti-Bacterial Agents↗
PubMed1987

Recruitment and retention of minority students in a physician assistant program.

The authors report two years of experience in the recruitment and retention of minority physician assistant students and the employment patterns of graduates from one physician assistant program. Recruitment strategies increased the proportion of minority students to 54 percent in the first year of the program and to 44 percent in the second year. The number of years of postsecondary education and clinical experience acquired by the minority students before admission to the program tended to have less impact on their performance in training than did their prior completion of formal academic degree programs and prior level of clinical responsibility. Attrition was higher for the minority students than nonminority students, and the minority students took longer than nonminority students to complete the program. The rates at which the students passed the certifying examination of the National Commission on Certification of Physician's Assistants were comparable for the two groups. Minority graduates tended to practice in areas of health manpower shortage.

Adult↗
PubMed1983

Educational decentralization and deployment of physician's assistants.

A community-based educational network was established to improve the deployment of physician's assistants away from the original site of training in California's San Francisco Bay Area. The philosophy underlying the program decentralization, lessons learned during its implementation, and outcomes of the decentralization are discussed. The graduates' practice locations for a seven-year period are compared before and after the decentralization of the program. Before decentralization, 58 percent of the graduates established their first practice outside of the Bay Area. Following decentralization, 100 percent of the students trained entirely within community settings took their first jobs away from the Bay Area. Unique aspects of this decentralization experience compared with those reported previously included the lack of a required student-preceptor match at the time of entry into the program, the provision of clinical training in or near the site of student residence, and the opportunity to compare before and after effects of decentralizing educational components other than preceptorships.

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Effectiveness of educational strategies preparing physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and certified nurse-midwives for underserved areas.

A study of physician assistant, nurse practitioner, and certified nurse midwifery programs was undertaken to identify and assess the effectiveness of recruitment, educational, and deployment strategies that programs use to prepare practitioners for medically underserved areas. The 51 programs studied were those having mission statements or known track records relating to this goal. A total of 170 interviews were conducted with faculty, students, graduates, and employers from 9 programs visited on-site and 42 programs surveyed by telephone. All programs had some recruitment and training activities in underserved sites. Only about half of the programs were able to submit data on their graduates' practice settings and specialties. These data suggest that older students who have backgrounds in underserved areas and clearly identified practice goals are more likely to practice in underserved areas. Programs that actively promote service to the underserved do so through publicly stated missions and recruitment and educational strategies that complement these missions. Such programs also are more likely to evaluate and document their success than programs that lack strategies.

Certification↗