Cochlear Implantation often results in loss of any remaining hearing that may have been present prior to the surgery and the patient uses only the cochlear implant to hear. Saving the remaining hearing is important because it can allow a recipient to also utilize a hearing aid in that ear in addition to the cochlear implant, termed electro-acoustic stimulation. Thus, the goals of this study are: 1) to determine the importance of electrocochleography in helping to save remaining hearing during the surgical procedure, 2) determine the benefit that a hearing aid and cochlear implant combination of listening impacts a patient's ability to understand speech compared to the traditional condition of using the cochlear implant alone without a hearing aid.

To develop a curriculum for resident education in ultrasound for quality improvement in diagnosis, surveillance and management of multiple areas

Medical school is a time for students to begin developing their professional identity through interactions with faculty and residents in health care settings. With the dynamic disruption presented by the pandemic as well as the civil unrest resulting from the murder of George Floyd, this study seeks to better understand medical students' experiences in a time of crisis.

The purpose of this study is to develop and refine an entrusable professional activities (EPA) framework that can be utilized nationwide by dental hygiene programs. EPAs will help to enhance the standardization of practice among graduating clinicians in dental hygiene. By utilizing an EPA framework this will help to bring a legitimacy to the clinicians' ability to provide appropriate patient care to their communities.

The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility of life plotting as an intervention while honoring the voices of disabled people of color participating in the intervention.

Although speech-language pathologists (SLPs) have an important role in the development of literacy according to the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, they are not assessing and/or treating literacy at the same rates as oral language. There is a need to examine the reasons for this through surveying speech-language pathologists on areas such as the extent of pre-service training they received on literacy. There is also a need to ascertain what SLPs current clinical experiences of literacy are and what the literacy profiles of children and adolescents on their workloads are.

The purpose of this research study is to learn more about patient preferences for care when undergoing treatment for drug use-associated endocarditis (DUA-IE), specifically treatment for addiction and antibiotic treatment.

The study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a workshop series that aims to help UNC graduate students establish understanding in global health research studies. We will test participants' self-efficacy in conducting global health research before and after the workshops. We will also collect participants' feedback on the design and implementation of the workshops so that we can improve our work in the future.

The purpose of this research study is to learn about the structure and function of the upper GI tract epithelium (the lining of the food tube, or esophagus, stomach, and small bowel, or duodenum) in normal people and those with disease, especially those with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) or gastroesophageal reflux disease ("acid reflux" or GERD).

The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding of the relationship between social anxiety and individuals with long-term physical disabilities as well as the connection between perceived social status, social support, depression and this same group. Lower perceived social status, as well as the other factors, have been shown to contribute to a larger decline in health over time.