Current Women's Health Reviews - Volume 13, Issue 2, 2017

Background: Mentoring minority faculty in academic medicine is not a new strategy for remedying the lack of diversity in this field [1, 2]. However, beyond achieving the necessary goal of workforce diversity in medicine and science, faculty development leaders in academic medical center settings appear to lack a clear roadmap on how to authentically develop minority faculty and position them towards high impact leaders Read More

Objective: To evaluate the impact of the Clinical Topics Tool Book on students' academic and clinical performance during Ob/Gyn clerkship. Methods: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of the Clinical Topics Tool Book (CTTB) on students' academic and clinical performance during Ob/Gyn clerkship. In academic year 2006-07, a new teaching tool called the CTTB was implemented in the Obstetrics and Gynecology cl Read More

Introduction: Over the past two decades, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the Residency Review Committee included a focus on training OB/GYN resident physicians with the knowledge of research principles and methodology. OB/GYN Residency Programs complied with these requirements with curriculum innovations. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the medical literature since 2000, from the pe Read More

Background: Bulimia nervosa (BN) is a chronic mental health disorder that can be associated with numerous medical complications. Patients with BN are often impulsive, and they often engage in activities that are harmful towards themselves and others. Objective: To have a firm understanding of the medical complications of BN so that effective medical treatment can be provided in a timely and effective manner Read More

Background: Most studies of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) have focused on children with the disorder. Much less attention has been given to morbidity and mortality among other family members. Objective: To determine if a diagnosis of FASD in a child is a risk marker for premature mortality of the mother, we utilized a systematic review of studies documenting deaths of the mothers in order to estimate their mortali Read More

Background: Only few epidemiological studies have examined the associations between dietary intake of flavonoids and the risk of ovarian and endometrial cancers. Although preliminary, there are some suggestive findings about the protective effects of high consumption of flavone luteolin, flavonol kaempferol, and total or individual isoflavones (daidzein, genistein, glycitein) against ovarian tumorigenesis. Results about the p Read More

Background: Physician burnout is increasing in prevalence across all medical and surgical specialties and is associated with significant decline in the physical and mental health of providers as well as early retirement from the practice of medicine. There are factors unique to women's health that put its providers at significantly increased risk for burnout including the preponderance of female providers and the practice settings, co Read More

The purpose of the article is to describe an educational intervention for health professionals based on an interprofessional-shared decision making (IP-SDM) model in the women’s prenatal and early postpartum care and to observe whether after the intervention there was an improvement of certain outcomes such as: acquisition of substance use disorder knowledge, stigma reduction, and referrals to an evidenced-based prog Read More

Introduction: Colposcopy examination remains the gold standard in assessment of the patients with abnormal cervical cytology. There is a controversy in performing endocervical curettage (ECC) on satisfactory colposcopy. This study was performed with the aim to investigate the role of ECC as a complementary method, besides colposcopic examination in patients with satisfactory colposcopy. Methods: This descriptive Read More