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Objectives: Virtual tabletop exercises (VTTXs) simulate disaster scenarios to help participants improve their emergency-planning capacity. The objectives of our study were to (1) evaluate the effectiveness of a VTTX in improving preparedness capabilities specific to children’s needs among pediatricians and public health practitioners, (2) document follow-up actions, and (3) identify exercise strengths and weaknesses.

This article describes a valuable activity to teach health professions students – the interprofessional geriatric case competition. This program brought together students from multiple health professions to design and present a comprehensive care plan using a simulated complex geriatric patient case. Student participants demonstrated beginning skills in interprofessional collaboration based on the IPEC competencies.

This article discusses the growing evidence that anti-inflammatory diets may have a protective effect related to cognitive decline in elders. Most research focuses in and around the Mediterranean Diet and the DASH Diet. The authors suggest that using neuroimaging in related studies would advance understanding of the effects of dietary modifications in the ageing brain.

Source: Current Nutrition Reports, 2019
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13668-019-0271-4

This article explores opportunities to impact mood in individuals with dementia, such as feeling of safety, with specific sound stimuli. The influence of voice and music are discussed along with considerations around altered auditory cognition due to dementia. A framework for a soundscape design using acoustic stimuli for influencing changes in mood, feelings of safety, and responses is proposed nursing homes.

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This article describes the design and evaluation of a 2-week multimodal virtual geriatrics elective based on the 5 M's created during the COVID-19 pandemic for medical students The geriatric 5 Ms include medications, mobility, mind, multicomplexity, and what matters most. The curriculum provides a content outline and a combination of synchronous and asynchronous teaching strategies to meet the needs of learners.

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This article describes a qualitative study on eliciting patient-centered goals for dementia care that used focus groups of people with early-stage dementia and dementia caregivers. Although a variety of measures have been developed that assess control of behavioral symptoms and caregiver outcomes, these may not capture everything that may be important to patients and their caregivers as they face the medical, behavioral, and social consequences of dementia. Goals of dementia care for both patients and caregivers are described.

Interprofessional education (IPE) and evidence-based practice (EBP) are relatively new concepts in health professions education in many parts of the world. These critical reforms are implemented with great effort. As clinical practice has become more collaborative and evidence-based, teamwork and research need to be well integrated in the curriculum. However, many stakeholders struggle to visualize the work of IPE and EBP in the context of health professions education and practice.

This was a validation study of the Norwegian version of The Interprofessional Collaborative Competency
Attainment Survey (ICCAS). ICCAS consists of 20 retrospective pre- and post-questions, where respondents
rate their agreement with regard to self-assessed competencies after participating in interprofessional
education courses. It has been validated across various settings. The questionnaire was translated
using the back-translation technique. We investigated evidence of validity regarding content, response