Southern medical journal
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Southern medical journal · Feb 2022
Moral Elevation, Physician Role Models, and Selected Markers of Professional Identity Formation and Well-Being: A Secondary Analysis from Two National Surveys.
Moral elevation is the underlying emotion that arises when witnessing admirable acts, and it is theorized to be the psychological mechanism driving the impact that positive clinical role models have on medical students' professional identity formation (eg, growth in professional virtues, higher sense of meaning, and well-being). This proof-of-concept study explores the development of the Moral Elevation Scale in Medicine by testing the association of moral elevation with various markers of professional identity formation. ⋯ In medical students and practicing physicians, self-reported experiences of high moral elevation with physician role models were associated with higher self-reported measures of patient-centered virtues, spirituality, and life meaning. Our Moral Elevation Scale in Medicine demonstrates preliminary promise as a measure to assess environmental precursors needed for virtue development in professional identity formation, but further reliability and validity testing of this measure is needed.
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Southern medical journal · Feb 2022
Disaster Preparedness Training Needs of Healthcare Workers at the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
Training healthcare workers in disaster preparedness has been shown to increase their willingness and ability to report to work during disasters. Little is known, however, about the relation between sociodemographic, household, and workforce characteristics and the desire for such training. Accordingly, this study aimed to assess healthcare workers' desire for additional workforce preparedness training, and the determinants that influence the need for such training, for three types of disasters (natural, pandemic, manmade). ⋯ Identifying which factors encourage participation in disaster preparedness training can help hospitals and other healthcare providers create targeted training and educational materials to better prepare all hospital staff for future disasters.
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Recombinant zoster vaccine (RZV) is Food and Drug Administration approved for the prevention of herpes zoster (shingles) in adults 50 years old and older. Immunocompromised subjects were excluded from the pivotal vaccine trials. We studied the safety of this vaccine in our university-affiliated rheumatology practice. ⋯ The RZV was safe and well tolerated among our study population.
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To examine associations between bedside rounding (BSR) and other rounding strategies (ORS) with resident evaluations of teaching attendings and self-reported attending characteristics. ⋯ Conducting BSR did not significantly affect resident evaluations of teaching attendings. Resident perception of teaching effectiveness based on rounding strategy should be neither a motivator nor a barrier to widespread institution of BSR.
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Southern medical journal · Feb 2022
Erratum: Clinical Outcomes of Noninvasive Ventilation in Asthma, Bronchiectasis, and Other COPD: Erratum.
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001329.].