The AdvICE course: leveraging clinician experience in interprofessional education to promote collaborative practice.

As part of the global agenda to increase the interprofessional collaborative practice capability of the healthcare workforce, it is recognized that post-qualification health professionals require interprofessional education (IPE) to upskill them in the key competencies of collaborative practice. Previously published accounts of IPE initiatives directed as post-qualification health professionals have been based in a specific practice setting within a health service or related to a specific health condition. Differing from these initiatives, the Advancing Interdisciplinary Clinical Excellence (AdvICE) IPE course is offered to experienced clinicians across settings and professions in a large regional Australian health service.

EEG findings in dementia with Lewy bodies and Alzheimer's disease.

Objectives: To evaluate the role of the EEG in the diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB).

Methods: Standard EEG recordings from 14 patients with DLB confirmed at postmortem were examined and were compared with the records from 11 patients with Alzheimer's disease confirmed at postmortem

Results: Seventeen of the total of 19 records from the patients with DLB were abnormal. Thirteen showed loss of alpha activity as the dominant rhythm and half had slow wave transient activity in the temporal lobe areas.