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To analyze the factors associated with the professional insertion of Speech Therapy graduates.

Observational analytical cross-sectional study, with a non-probabilistic sample, composed of 245 graduates from a Speech Therapy course in Brazil. The research applied a questionnaire containing objective and open questions, segmented into six axes. Bivariate and multivariate analysis of the data were performed.

There was an association between working as a speech therapist with the variables, gender (p=0.031), age (p≤0.001), initiative (p=0.001), leadership ability (p=0.001), decision making ability (p=0.001), teamwork ability (p=0.001), managerial skills (p=0.034), interest in new knowledge (p≤0.001), pride in the profession (p=0.001), network of contacts (p=0.001) and participation in outreach projects (p≤0.001). There was a higher chance of entering the job market as a speech therapist for those graduates who acquired network contacts during an undergraduate course (3.3 times more); were interested in knowledge (3.2 times more); develop leadership skills (2.6 times more); younger than 29 years old (0.3 times more) and carried out outreach projects during graduation (0.2 times more).

Graduates in Speech Therapy who develop a network of contacts, have an interest in knowledge, develop leadership skills and participate in outreach projects during graduation have enlarged possibilities of entering the job market as speech therapists.

Graduates in Speech Therapy who develop a network of contacts, have an interest in knowledge, develop leadership skills and participate in outreach projects during graduation have enlarged possibilities of entering the job market as speech therapists.

Investigate vocal fatigue and its relationship with the sensation of phonatory effort and discomfort in the vocal tract of teachers after a week of activity.

Cross-sectional, quantitative study, involving 40 teachers with complaints of vocal fatigue. Olaparib Procedures performed at the beginning and end of the week, before the classes start were Vocal Fatigue Index, Borg Scale, Vocal Tract Discomfort Scale, and voice recording for perceptual analysis.

There were no changes in phonatory effort and in frequency and intensity of discomfort in vocal tract. In relation to the VFI, in the domains of fatigue and vocal limitation and physical discomfort associated with the voice, teachers started and ended the week with values compatible with dysphonia. In the vocal restriction domain, they started the week with values compatible with vocal healthy individuals and at the end of the week they had scores compatible with dysphonia. In recovery with vocal rest, the pre and post values were below the cut-off score, meaning less vocal recovery. The greater the sensation of vocal fatigue, the greater the perception of phonatory effort; more frequent is the sensation of tightness, dryness, sore, sensitive and irritated throat and more intense the sensations of discomfort in the vocal tract tightness, dryness, itching, sensitive and irritated throat.

Teachers perceive an increase in vocal fatigue, without changes in phonatory effort and vocal tract discomfort after one week of class. The greater the perception of vocal fatigue, the greater the sensation of effort and phonatory discomfort.

Teachers perceive an increase in vocal fatigue, without changes in phonatory effort and vocal tract discomfort after one week of class. The greater the perception of vocal fatigue, the greater the sensation of effort and phonatory discomfort.

The COVID-19 pandemic brought abrupt changes when quarantine measures were implemented. Most medical students had distance learning as their main content delivery mode, but in clerkship (fifth and sixth years), in-person activities were maintained under new protocols. These different modes may have affected student mental health. This study examines mental burden and empathy in medical students during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic according to the year of attendance.

All students attending first to the sixth year in the same medical school were invited to participate. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20), the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), and the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS) were provided.

HADS scores for Anxiety and Depression (n=347) were 9.8±4.3 and 7.1±3.6, respectively; the SRQ-20 (n=373) score was 8.1±4.5; all scores were negatively correlated with the year of attendance. IRI (n=373) scores were 2.6±0.5 (Empathic Cl support networks to deal with adversities.Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) usually starts with pulmonary signs and symptoms. However, in some cases, the initial clinical presentations are extrapulmonary. This literature review aimed at summarizing and discussing the extrapulmonary onset manifestations of COVID-19. The most frequent initial extrapulmonary manifestations include hypogeusia, hyposmia, non-specific abdominal symptoms, corneal congestion, and deep venous thrombosis. Several rarer extrapulmonary manifestations in locations such as the brain, peripheral nerves, muscles, eyes, ears, myocardium, intestines, skin, or vessels have been additionally reported as onset presentations of COVID-19. In conclusion, it is crucial for clinicians and health care providers to consider extrapulmonary presentations at the onset of COVID-19 to avoid overlooking the infection and contributing to the spread of the disease.

To explore the effect of tumor and normal lung volumes on lung volume-dose parameters in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who had undergone intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).

The clinical data of 208 patients with NSCLC who underwent radical IMRT between June 2014 and June 2018 were retrospectively analyzed. A regression model curve was used to evaluate the effect of tumor and normal lung volumes on normal lung relative volumes receiving greater than 5 and 20 Gy (V5, V20), on mean lung dose (MLD), and on absolute volumes spared from greater than 5 and 20 Gy (AVS5, AVS20).

The V5, V20, and MLD of the bilateral lung were fitted to a quadratic equation curve with the change in tumor volume, which increased initially and then decreased when the tumor volume increased. The V5, V20, and MLD of the lung reached their apex when the tumor volumes were 288.07, 341.69, and 326.83 cm3, respectively. AVS5 and AVS20 decreased in a logarithmic curve with an increase in tumor volume. The V5, V20, and MLD of the small normal lung volume group were all significantly higher than those of the large normal lung volume group (p<0.