Animal-assisted intervention for geriatric well-being: A comprehensive review.

Background: In recent years, the size of geriatric population seems to have grown larger than that of younger children and is expected to grow even larger in few years from now. As older individuals are more vulnerable to health concerns and loneliness, it is necessary to focus on providing them opportunities for healthy ageing. Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) has emerged as one of the simple yet effective approach to enhance physical, psychological, and social well-being in older adults.

Establishing links between assessments and expected learning outcomes through curriculum mapping in a dental physiology curriculum.

Background: . The relevance of curriculum mapping to determine the links between expected learning outcomes and assessment is well stated in the literature. Nevertheless, studies confirming the usage of such maps are minimal.

Curriculum mapping of dental physiology curriculum: The path towards outcome-based education.

Introduction: Curriculum mapping provides a clear picture of curriculum content, learning opportunities and assessment methods employed to measure the achievement of learning outcomes with their interrelationships. It facilitates educators and teachers to examine the extent to which the curricular components are linked and hence to find out gaps in the curriculum. The objective of the study was, therefore, to evaluate the physiology curriculum of Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) programme through curriculum mapping.

Using an integrated teaching approach to facilitate student achievement of the learning outcomes in a preclinical medical curriculum in India.

Today most education institutions around the world have adopted the philosophy of outcome-based education. The emphasis in outcome-based education is achievement of outcomes; hence the curriculum should be designed in a way that it includes the components targeted specifically at achieving these outcomes. A discipline-based approach results in fragmentation of learning and lack of clinical applicability.

"Heart Shots": a classroom activity to instigate active learning.

The present study aimed to provide undergraduate medical students at Melaka Manipal Medical College (Manipal Campus), Manipal University, in Karnataka, India, an opportunity to apply their knowledge in cardiovascular concepts to real-life situations. A group activity named "Heart Shots" was implemented for a batch of first-year undergraduate students (n = 105) at the end of a block (teaching unit). Students were divided into 10 groups each having 10-11 students.