Interprofessional teamwork is vital to effective patient care, and targeting healthcare learners earlier in their education can lead to greater improvement in confidence and competence in teamwork skills. Despite this, institutions have continued struggling to integrate competency-based interprofessional teamwork curriculum in undergraduate health care professions' education. The current article provides guidance related to design, implementation, and assessment for institutions seeking to implement competency-based teamwork education and training strategies for healthcare students.
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December 2024
Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is common in people with substance use disorders (SUDs). TBI often results in cognitive deficits which can affect the clinical course of SUD.
Case Presentation: Here we present the case of a 34-year-old Spanish-speaking man with severe opioid use disorder and two prior TBIs affecting his cognitive abilities.
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol
December 2024
Objective: Youth disruptive behavior disorders (DBDs) have a male preponderance, but the extent to which gender biases in clinical assessment influence this imbalance remains unclear. The present study investigates whether a child patient's gender affects clinicians' diagnostic decision-making regarding Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Conduct Dissocial Disorder (CDD), and Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED).
Method: Clinicians ( = 403; 57.
A 72-year-old man with a history of aortic valve replacement (AVR), mitral valve (MV) repair, and recent valve-in-valve transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) presented with bacteremia. Computed tomography (CT) and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (F-FDG PET) imaging noted a pseudoaneurysm, and he successfully underwent TAVR explant with aortic root and valve replacement.
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