Incorporating a Whole-Person Perspective in Consumer-Generated Data: Social Determinants, Resilience, and Hidden Patterns.

Given the complex health and social needs of older adults, the rapid growth of the aging population, and the increasing use of information technology in healthcare, there is a critical need for informatics solutions that advance gerontological nursing care and knowledge discovery. This article illustrates the value of standardized data for healthcare quality improvement throughout the life cycle of data capture and reuse. One such informatics solution is the MyStrengths+MyHealth app, which incorporates a whole-person perspective through the Simplified Omaha System Terms assessment, including the social and behavioral determinants of health, as well as resilience.

Results of a Preceptor Improvement Project.

Background And Objectives: The majority of medical students receive some of their training with a community preceptor. Nearly all of these preceptors are motivated by a desire to give back to their profession through teaching and they want to learn how to teach more effectively. Designing effective educational programs to improve preceptor teaching is important to upholding the quality of medical education.

Teaching Competencies for Community Preceptors.

Background And Objectives: Although community physicians provide one-fourth of the outpatient training received in medical school, usually there is no formal training of the preceptor. Currently there is no agreed-upon list of teaching competencies for community physician-preceptors. Using a modified Delphi process, the authors aimed to identify core teaching competencies for community preceptors for use in training and evaluation.

Heart failure treatment: Keeping up with best practices.

This article briefly reviews the diagnosis and initial evaluation of the patient with suspected heart failure and then describes how newer treatments fit within heart failure management priorities and strategies.

Precepting Medical Students in the Patient's Presence: An Educational Randomized Trial in Family Medicine Clinic.

Background And Objectives: Many medical student-patient encounters occur in the outpatient setting. Conference room staffing (CRS) of student presentations has been the norm in the United States in recent decades. However, this method may not be suitable for outpatient precepting, being inefficient and reducing valuable direct face time between physician and patient.

Validation of a brief mental health screener for Karen refugees in primary care.

Background: Karen refugees from Burma are one of the largest refugee groups currently resettling in the USA. Karen people have endured decades of civil war and human rights violations, leaving them more likely to develop serious mental health disorders. There is a noted lack of brief, culturally validated tools present in primary care settings for detecting posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder (MDD) in Karen refugees.