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Vascular surgery training in the United States, 1994 to 2003
ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to analyze the use of operative training resources for vascular surgery residents (VSRs) and general surgery residents (GSRs) over the past 10 years in the United States, to address questions concerning adequate endovascular versus open surgical training and the potential to expand the number of VSRs to meet future workforce needs.MethodsNational operative data from the Residency Review Committee for Surgery (RRC) were analyzed for all vascular surgery (VS) and general surgery (GS) training programs from 1994 to 2003. GSR experience in programs with and without associated VS programs was also compared.ResultsMean total VS volume per VSR increased from 220 operations in 1994 to 368 in 2003, owing to the addition of 140 endovascular procedures by 2003. GSR volume was more stable, with 117 mean total VS operations in 1994 and 122 in 2003. This volume was distributed as approximately 50% major open VS operations for both VSR and GSR. In addition, 39% of VSR experience was endovascular, whereas 32% of GSR experience was vascular access. The average VSR performed 2.7 times more major open VS operations than each GSR, but because of the 10-fold greater number of GSRs, VSRs performed only 20% of the total major operations available for VS training. Selective procedures, such as renal revascularization and open infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm repair decreased over time, while endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair increased dramatically, accounting for 46% of aortic aneurysm repairs per VSR in 2003. The mean volume of total interventional procedures per VSR in 2003 was 152 diagnostic and 213 therapeutic. GSRs in programs with and without an associated VS program had very similar operative volumes.ConclusionsInterventional procedures have increased VSR operative volume by 50% in recent years, with only a 12% decrease in major open operations. Nearly all VSRs currently meet RRC minimum requirements for open and endovascular procedures. Mean GSR operative volume has been stable, and far exceeds RRC minimum requirements. Based on the number of major open vascular operations available for training in 2003, the current number of VSR positions could be increased by 50% if GSR operative volume was decreased by 15%. However, increased interventional volume would also be required, for which there is competition with other specialties
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Elements and outcomes of a postpartum support group program
Questionnaires were sent to 90 women who had participated in a lay postpartum support group program to determine (a) the characteristics of the women who used this form of support, (b) the needs met by the group, (c) the types of discussions most meaningful to group members, and (d) the factors that influenced the group's effectiveness in providing support. Sixty‐six questionnaires were returned. The respondents were older, better educated, and more affluent than a random sample of childbearing women. They joined the group primarily to meet other women going through the same experience with whom they could share ideas and feelings. The most meaningful discussions for these women focused on personal issues rather than infant‐related issues. The presence of babies at group meetings adversely affected the regularity of attendance. Women who worked outside the home were significantly more likely to continue meeting with the group for over a year. Only 7 women thought the group would have been better for them if their husbands had been present.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/91311/1/4770030107_ftp.pd
Charge on the quantum dot in the presence of tunneling current
The calculation of the charge present in central region of the double barrier
structure at non-equilibrium conditions is discussed. We propose here a simple
method to calculate non equilibrium Green's functions which allows consistent
calculations of retarded and distribution functions. To illustrate the approach
we calculate the charge on the quantum dot coupled {\it via} tunnel barriers to
two external leads having different chemical potentials and .
The obtained results have been compared with other approaches existing in the
literature. They all agree in the equilibrium situation and the departures grow
with increasing the difference .Comment: 9 pages, 2 (.eps) figures, to be published in Solid State Commu
Quantum transport through molecular wires
We explore electron transport properties in molecular wires made of
heterocyclic molecules (pyrrole, furan and thiophene) by using the Green's
function technique. Parametric calculations are given based on the
tight-binding model to describe the electron transport in these wires. It is
observed that the transport properties are significantly influenced by (a) the
heteroatoms in the heterocyclic molecules and (b) the molecule-to-electrodes
coupling strength. Conductance () shows sharp resonance peaks associated
with the molecular energy levels in the limit of weak molecular coupling, while
they get broadened in the strong molecular coupling limit. These resonances get
shifted with the change of the heteroatoms in these heterocyclic molecules. All
the essential features of the electron transfer through these molecular wires
become much more clearly visible from the study of our current-voltage
(-) characteristics, and they provide several key informations in the
study of molecular transport.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Cotunneling through quantum dot with even number of electrons
We study an influence of a finite magnetic field on a small spin-degenerate
quantum dot with even number of electrons, attached to metallic leads. It is
shown that, under certain conditions, the low energy physics of the system can
be described by the S=1/2 antiferromagnetic Kondo model.Comment: Contribution to LT-22; to be published in Physica
A Lie-Algebraic Approach To the Kondo Problem
The Kondo problem is studied using the unitary Lie algebra of spin-singlet
fermion bilinears. In the limit when the number of values of the spin goes
to infinity the theory approaches a classical limit, which still requires a
renormalization. We determine the ground state of this renormalized theory.
Then we construct a quantum theory around this classical limit, which amounts
to recovering the case of finite .Comment: 3 figure
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