BACKGROUND Plastic surgery is the most competitive specialty in medicine. We sought to identify factors associated with the successful match of generation Y applicants into integrated plastic surgery residency. METHODS We utilized the most recent data from the Charting Outcomes in the Match published by the National Resident Matching Program in 2011. We had data on US senior or independent ap...

BACKGROUND The plastic surgery literature is vast, consisting of a plethora of diverse articles written by a myriad of illustrious authors. Despite this considerable archive of published material, it remains nebulous as to which precise papers have had the greatest impact on our specialty. The aim of this study was to identify the most cited papers in the plastic surgery literature and perform ...

Introduction. "See and treat" one-stop clinics (OSCs) are an advocated NHS initiative to modernise care, reducing cancer treatment waiting times. Little studied in plastic surgery, the existing evidence suggests that though they improve care, they are rarely implemented. We present our experience setting up a plastic surgery OSC for minor skin surgery and survey their use across the UK. Methods...

The role of microstructure on hot deformation behavior of sintered Cu-28Zn prealloyed powder compacts was investigated by a series of isothermal hot compression tests in the temperature range of 550- 850°C at strain rates of 0.001, 0.01, 0.1 and 0.5 s-1, by taking into consideration the Hyperbolic Sine functional behavior to analyze the deformation behavior of the alloy. The results indicate th...

Cloud-based applications including Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Evernote, Notability, and Zotero are available for smartphones, tablets, and laptops and have revolutionized the manner in which medical students and surgeons read and utilize plastic surgery literature. Here we provide an overview of the use of Cloud computing in practice and propose an algorithm for organizing the vast amount of p...

Although there have been cases of plastic surgery that date back to 2600 years ago, there has been a relatively recent upsurge in plastic surgery operations due to improved sterilization techniques and the advent of anesthesia [1]. Since plastic surgery operations were so rare until recently, teshuvos did not appear on the subject until about 60 years ago [1]. The topic of plastic surgery raise...

Over the last two decades, virtual reality, haptics, simulators, robotics, and other "advanced technologies" have emerged as important innovations in medical learning and practice. Reports on simulator applications in medicine now appear regularly in the medical, computer science, engineering, and popular literature. The goal of this article is to review the emerging intersection between advanc...

BACKGROUND Although the consequences of spinal cord injury (SCI) within the spinal cord and peripheral nervous system have been studied extensively, the influence of SCI on supraspinal structures during recovery remains largely unexplored. OBJECTIVE To assess temporal changes in cortical sensorimotor representations beginning in the subacute phase following SCI and determine if an association...