Enhancing the effectiveness of interprofessional education in health science education: a state-of-the-art review.

Background: In order to foster effective collaboration and improve healthcare outcomes, students from multiple health professions engage in interprofessional education (IPE), learning together and from each other. Existing literature explores the effectiveness of IPE within health sciences but presents varied findings. The purpose of this study is to The effectiveness of IPE is defined as the four levels of training evaluation delineated by Kirkpatrick: reaction, learning, behavior, and results.

Community-based learning in medical education: A starting guide and lessons learned.

Community-based medical education (CBME) addresses real-world health problems and is characterized by its emphasis on reciprocity and collaboration with community stakeholders. Limited evidence shows that CBME is an effective learning strategy to care for underserved communities. However, medical schools and nursing schools struggle to implement CBME in their curriculum.

Which social accountability competencies make a good physician? A qualitative investigation of the patient perspective on social accountability.

Objective: Social accountability is an emerging theme in health care education. In previous literature, the perspectives of patients regarding the competencies that they think are required for physicians to demonstrate in this domain are scarce. This study aims to get insight into the competencies in the domain of social accountability that, according to patients, should be demonstrated by physicians.

An evidence-based roadmap to integrate planetary health education into the medical curriculum.

The urgency for action on climate change is regarded as the defining issue of our time. Planetary health education prepares future healthcare professionals to promote the health of the planet, including sustainable healthcare. This has potential benefits for the healthcare system, patients, community, and the environment.

Enhancing the effectiveness of flipped classroom in health science education: a state-of-the-art review.

Background: In a flipped classroom, students acquire knowledge before class and deepen and apply this knowledge during class. This way, lower-order learning goals are achieved before class and higher-order skills are reached during class. This study aims to provide an overview of the factors that contribute to the effectiveness of the flipped classroom and how these factors can be stimulated.

Effects of decontamination of the oropharynx and intestinal tract on antibiotic resistance in ICUs: a randomized clinical trial.

Importance: Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) and selective oropharyngeal decontamination (SOD) are prophylactic antibiotic regimens used in intensive care units (ICUs) and associated with improved patient outcome. Controversy exists regarding the relative effects of both measures on patient outcome and antibiotic resistance.

Objective: To compare the effects of SDD and SOD, applied as unit-wide interventions, on antibiotic resistance and patient outcome.

Genotypical variation of Campylobacter pylori from gastric mucosa.

In a previous study, the recurrence of the Campylobacter pylori infection after apparently successful antibacterial therapy was determined to be due to recrudescence rather than reinfection. Although the DNA patterns of pre- and posttreatment isolates were very similar, we detected minor differences between the two patterns in about one third of the patients. These differences were not artifacts, but originated in the coexistence in the stomach of (sub)populations of bacteria with slightly different chromosomal DNAs, plasmids, or both.

Patient-to-patient transmission of Campylobacter pylori infection by fiberoptic gastroduodenoscopy and biopsy.

Three instances of subclinical reinfection with Campylobacter pylori were observed in two successfully treated patients during follow-up of C. pylori gastritis. The reinfections occurred 1 month and 21 months (patient 1) and 32 months (patient 2) after the completion of antibacterial treatment.

Rapidly decreased serum IgG to Campylobacter pylori following elimination of Campylobacter in histological chronic biopsy Campylobacter-positive gastritis.

The anaerobic bacterium Campylobacter pylori (Cp) is thought to be associated with chronic gastritis. This paper presents clinical data underpinning this view. Five patients with histological chronic gastritis as determined by diagnostic endoscopy, which was associated with Cp as determined by positive biopsy cultures, all possessed statistically raised serum IgG ELISA titers to Cp during a longitudinal period of observation of 15 months.

Application of whole-cell DNA restriction endonuclease profiles to the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile-induced diarrhea.

Two patients in one hospital room acquired pseudomembranous colitis, one shortly after the other. The DNA restriction patterns of isolates from the patients and of four isolates from the environment were indistinguishable from one another and differed from isolates of other patients. Restriction endonuclease digest analysis appears to be a useful method for studying the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile.