Patients unable to participate in decision-making about their care deserve a surrogate decision-maker to act on their behalf. In this study we will examine typical patterns employed by trainees to identify surrogates and communicate basic understanding of the surrogate role.

The purpose of this study is to understand how body fat and skeletal muscle in your body impacts your heart, kidney, and metabolic health. This research may help to better diagnose and treat patients and prevent progression of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic diseases.

We want to better understand hearing (like speech perception or sound source localization) across the lifespan.

The purpose of this study is to discover how artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in dental hygiene programs in the United States. It will focus on rules about AI, how it is being used during classes and hands-on training, and how teachers are involved in teaching and encouraging the use of AI.

This study seeks to understand how the state's shifting population policies and framing of population priorities influence people's experiences with assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), and how people, especially intended parents, navigate socioeconomic policies and cultural expectations around receiving assisted reproductive interventions in China and among Chinese who seek ART abroad.

The purpose of this research study is to interview patients with fatty liver disease who are planning to have liver surgery. Our goal is to understand patients' health beliefs with fatty liver disease and what weight loss behaviors they would be willing to follow prior to surgery. You are being asked to be in the study because you are a patient with fatty liver disease planning to have liver surgery.

This study is designed to evaluate outcomes for UNC School of Medicine faculty who participate in the Leadership in Academic Medicine Program (LAMP), a faculty development program for junior faculty. Participation is restricted to UNC School of Medicine faculty participating in LAMP.

We will be conducting qualitative interviews with dental providers employing animal-assisted therapy to learn about current practices and recommendations for animal-assisted therapy use in dental clinics.

To examine employee reactions to coworker behavior at work.

The purpose of this study is to determine if performing a paracervical block, or placing local anesthetic around the cervix, at the time of vaginal hysterectomy and prolapse repair reduces the amount of opioid medications that patients need and pain that patients feel after surgery. Even short term use of opioid medications can be associated with side effects such as constipation, nausea, somnolence, or dependence.