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Surgical AI and devices

Autonomous Vascular Access Devices: Current Solutions and Future Challenges
Military Medicine, 2026. Review of autonomous vascular access devices: current practice, military need, first-generation robotic ultrasound systems, and design criteria for field-ready devices.

Distinguishing Signal from Perception: What Video-Based Assessment Reveals About Surgical Decision-Making and Technical Performance
Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2026. Letter in JACS arguing surgeons' poor complication prediction from video reflects human perception limits, and how AI video analysis could find the signal.

Artificial Intelligence for Postoperative Wound Monitoring: An Integrative Review of Digital Innovation and Clinical Feasibility
The American Surgeon, 2026. Integrative review of 118 studies on AI for postoperative wound monitoring: deep learning, wearables, mobile apps, and a roadmap for clinical use.

The AI loop: redefining medical research from data to clinical decisions
BMJ Digital Health & AI, 2025. Editorial in BMJ Digital Health & AI on how AI now spans data analysis, writing and peer review, and the risks of a closed loop for bias and accountability.

Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Colorectal Cancer in Young Populations
Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2025. Integrative review of AI in young-onset colorectal cancer (under age 50): what has been studied from 2020 to 2024 and where the gaps are.

Artificial Intelligence: The Elephant in the Tumor Board Room
Academic Medicine, 2023. Letter in Academic Medicine on a tumor board where AI flagged a breast cancer months early but was set aside, and what that means for training physicians in AI.

AI in medical education

Needs, Challenges, and Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education Curriculum
JMIR Medical Education, 2022. Why medical schools don't yet teach AI, and a proposal to integrate it as a longitudinal thread covering tools, design, data and ethics.

Educating Future Physicians in Artificial Intelligence (AI): An Integrative Review and Proposed Changes
Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development, 2021. Integrative review of 39 articles on medical students' attitudes toward AI and how medical schools are, or aren't, teaching it.

Clinical outcomes research

Trends in Colorectal Dysplasia in Patients With IBD
Diseases of the Colon and Rectum, 2026. NSQIP IBD Collaborative study of 5,516 surgical IBD patients: dysplasia prevalence and its independent risk factors, including immunotherapy use.

Telemedicine in orthopaedics during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparative landscape
International Orthopaedics, 2024. How orthopaedic telemedicine surged and receded in 2020 compared with oncology, rheumatology and family medicine at one large institution.

Nanocrystalline Silver Layer of Knitted Polyester Outperforms Other Silver-Containing Wound Dressings in an In Vitro Wound Model
Cureus, 2023. In vitro comparison of seven silver-containing wound dressings against E. coli and S. aureus; Acticoat Flex-3 showed the strongest antimicrobial effect.

MD and DO: Differing Medical Degrees and the Associated Perceptions
Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology, 2021. Survey of 268 radiology residents on how MD versus DO degree type shaped their careers and residency selection.

The impact of state-mandated opioid prescribing restrictions on prescribing patterns surrounding reverse total shoulder arthroplasty
JSES International, 2021. How Florida's 2018 opioid prescribing law changed opioid use and dependence after reverse total shoulder arthroplasty.

Should Radiologists Comment on Incidental Findings of Vascular Calcifications Found on Abdominal/Pelvic CT in Patients Less Than 50 Years of Age?
Academic Radiology, 2020. Incidental abdominopelvic vascular calcification on CT in adults under 50 predicted worse lipids and more strokes, heart attacks and deaths over six years.

Medical education and equity

The Impact of COVID-19 on Marginalized Communities
Academic Medicine, 2021. Trainee letter in Academic Medicine on rising hunger in NYC during COVID-19 and why medical schools should build community volunteering into pandemic training.

Is Community-engaged Learning Possible During a Pandemic: A Call for Culturally Competent Medical Education
MedEdPublish, 2020. Why community-engaged learning is central to culturally competent medical education, and how to keep it going during COVID-19.

Case reports and reviews

Renal malakoplakia with invasion of the liver and diaphragm: a patient case and literature review
BMJ Case Reports, 2022. Case report: renal malakoplakia invading the liver and diaphragm, mimicking kidney cancer until pathological diagnosis.

Recognising immunotherapy-induced meningoencephalitis: a case during treatment for primary metastatic melanoma of the bladder neck
BMJ Case Reports, 2022. Case report of immunotherapy-induced meningoencephalitis during dual immunotherapy for primary metastatic melanoma of the bladder neck.

Macrophages in Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis: Friend or Foe?
European Medical Journal. Hepatology, 2018. Review of how Kupffer cells and other macrophages drive inflammation and progression in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and emerging therapies.