Proposing the Community Triad Model to action social accountability in medical schools.

This article is the third in a series exploring drivers of social accountability (SA) in medical schools across Canada. Findings from the two previous articles have highlighted a central relationship between community, students, and faculty at medical schools, and led to the emergence of a new social accountability model- the Community Triad Model (CTM). The CTM proposes an interconnectedness between community, students, faculty, and the broader institution, and the pathways through which community-based learning directly and indirectly influences decision-making in medical institutions.

Exploring social accountability in Canadian medical schools: broader perspectives.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. This article is the second of a two-part series in a study that explores key drivers of social accountability in Canada's medical schools and offers examples of social accountability in action.

Key drivers of social accountability in nine Canadian medical schools.

A social accountability mandate for Canadian medical schools formally emerged in Canada with changes to accreditation standards in 2015. However, how social accountability is defined and operationalized within medical schools has transpired independently. Key enablers of social accountability in Canadian medical schools have been largely unexplored.

Neuropsychological Outcomes of Exposure to Hurricane Katrina and Relocation.

Objective: Survivors of natural disasters are at risk for mental health sequela, including deficits in neurocognitive functioning. This study explores links between hurricane exposure and resulting psychiatric symptoms and deficits in cognitive processing, attention, learning, and memory.

Methods: Relocated Katrina survivors and demographically matched controls completed neurocognitive tests assessing processing speed (Trail Making Test, Part A), mental flexibility (Trail Making Test, Part B), sustained attention (Conner's Continuous Performance Test), and learning and memory (Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test).

Possible link of Interleukin-6 and Interleukin-2 with psychiatric diagnosis, ethnicity, disaster or BMI.

Background: Cytokines are of increasing interest as markers for stress responses, mental disorders and general health. We assessed associations of two cytokines with several factors among relocated hurricane survivors and controls.

Methods: We examined 40 relocated hurricane survivors and 40 demographically matched (frequency matching) Oklahoma controls to assess relationships of Interleukin-2 (IL-2) and Interleukin-6 (IL-6) with psychiatric diagnoses (SCID-IV), demographic variables, hurricane exposure and body mass index (BMI).

Evaluating the implementation and outcomes of the Saskatchewan Pressure Ulcer Guidelines in long-term care facilities.

The Health Quality Council and the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations convened a committee to develop evidence-based best practice guidelines for pressure ulcer prevention and management in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. The Health Quality Council designed a pilot project to 1) implement these guidelines in long-term care facilities using an evidence-based strategy and 2) evaluate the impact of the guidelines on the incidence and prevalence of residents with pressure ulcers. Seven long-term care facilities in Saskatchewan participated in the project, which ran from November 2004 to September 2005.