Research Activities & Interests

Cancer Screening

• NJ Cancer Education and Early Detection (NJCEED) Program Screening Access of Value to Men and Women (SAVE) (Dr DeCosimo).

Cultural Issues

• Academic detailing (Dr Natale-Periera).

• The Hispanic Center for Excellence (Dr Soto-Greene).

Diabetes Mellitus

Health Care Services

HIV

• HIV and syphilis seroprevalence in an Emergency Department (Dr Jaker).

• HIV identification and counseling in the Emergency Department (Dr Atkin)

• HIV screening (Dr Atkin).

Quality Improvement

Medical Education

• Clerkship timing and disparity in performance of racial-ethnic minorities.

• Comparison of OSCE grades in different clerkships.

• Effect of night-call on performance of medical students.

• Family Medicine and Medicine Clerkships - does rotation sequence make a difference?

• IMG and non-IMG resident evaluation of students in the Medicine Clerkship.

• Impact of a medicine clerkship culture curriculum.

• Mentoring of non-traditional students.

• Test anxiety before the OSCE versus the NBME Medicine subject examination.

Occupational Medicine

• Alternative strategies for hepatitis B vaccination for non-responders after the 6th hepatitis B vaccination (Dr Budnick).

• Needlestick injury reporting (Dr Budnick).

• Tuberculosis in health care workers (Dr Budnick).

Violence

• Domestic violence and sexual abuse (Dr Atkin).