Improving students' performance via case-based e-learning.

Background: The integration of interdisciplinary clinical reasoning and decision-making into the medical curriculum is imperative. Novel, high-quality e-learning environments, encompassing virtual clinical and hands-on training, are essential. Consequently, we evaluated the efficacy of a case-based e-learning approach.

Pathways between Child Maltreatment, Psychological Symptoms, and Life Satisfaction: A Network Analysis in Adolescent Inpatients.

Child maltreatment is a risk factor for mental disorders and decreased life satisfaction during adolescence. We investigated whether child maltreatment would link to life satisfaction both directly and through psychological symptoms, whether these relations would change from admission to discharge after treatment, and which types of maltreatment, symptoms and facets of life satisfaction would be most influential in adolescent inpatients with internalizing mental disorders. N = 896 adolescent receiving inpatient psychotherapeutic treatment completed questionnaires on child maltreatment experiences, current psychopathology and subjective life satisfaction at admission and discharge (n = 765).

A Case of Autoimmune Small Fiber Neuropathy as Possible Post COVID Sequelae.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection is reported to induce and augment autoimmune processes. Moreover, postinfectious effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are still poorly understood and often resemble symptoms of the acute infection phase. A patient with swollen extremities was presented to the Department of Angiology at the Medical University of Vienna with complaints of muscle and joint pain, paresthesia, and arterial hypertension with intense headache.

Impact of Geriatric Assessment on the Tolerability of Combination Chemotherapy in Older Patients with Advanced Cancer: A Matched-Pair Analysis.

Because of their individual vulnerabilities, treatment decisions for older patients can be difficult. Geriatric assessment (GA) may help to select patients for systemic treatment, but its value is still unproven. Older cancer patients (≥65 years of age) with and without complex GA followed by discussion in the geriatric-oncologic conference, who had been treated in palliative intention with standard combination chemotherapy at the Evang.

What We Need for Encoding of Memory and Emotional Reconsolidation.

Background: It is known that an interactive design and good participants' involvement strengthens the motivation to engage in learning processes. Previous research suggests attitude-behaviour consistency with relevance of subjective meaning and interest in learning. This observational study aims to measure the attitude of medical students.

Microvascular rarefaction in patients with cerebrovascular events.

Capillary density rarefaction and endothelial dysfunction contribute to chronic hypoperfusion and cerebral small vessel disease. Previous animal experiments revealed spatiotemporal microvascular remodeling directing post-stroke brain reorganization. We hypothesized that microcirculatory changes during acute cerebrovascular events could be reflected systemically and visualized sublingually.

[Proposal of a Basic Documentation for Child, Adolescent and Family Psychosomatics Based on a Synopsis of Basic Documentations for Children, Adolescents and Adults].

In psychiatry, psychosomatics and psychotherapy, basic documentation (BaDo) is used as a quality assurance tool. For the field of child, adolescent and family psychosomatics, there is no uniform BaDo that can be used across facilities and care areas. The aim of the study was to propose a catalog of characteristics for the context of psychosomatic treatment of children and adolescents on the basis of a synoptic comparison of established BaDos METHODS: In the context of a qualitative document analysis, BaDo items from the children/youth and adult sector were evaluated in content analysis along a category system.

Encouraging communication and cooperation in e-learning: solving and creating new interdisciplinary case histories.

An increasing number of patients to treat combined with a rapidly growing amount of knowledge to integrate, is challenging for future doctors. To take the medical history and diagnose effectively, to send the patient to an expert, to create a relevant expert to expert communication, to discuss with the patient, the time needed for a decision, should be as short as possible. Investigating medical students' cognitive processes while solving a patient's case leads to the conclusion that educators should help and facilitate these reasoning and communication processes.

How an Oncologist's Intuition Compares to a Geriatric Assessment.

Background: A geriatric assessment (GA) is recommended before treating older cancer patients. The goal of this study was to investigate if the additional information from a GA and discussion by a multidisciplinary board (MB) change the treatment recommendations.

Patients And Methods: Older cancer patients (n = 421) were prospectively assessed by an oncologist for eligibility for chemotherapy.

Sublingual microvasculature in diabetic patients.

Diabetes is associated with micro- and macrovascular complications. The aim of the study was to investigate microvascular parameters (glycocalyx dimensions, perfused and total capillary density) in vivo in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus. In vivo sublingual videomicroscopy using sidestream darkfield - derived imaging was performed in 36 patients with diabetes mellitus (type 1: n = 20, type 2: n = 16) and compared to a control group of 36 healthy volunteers.

Does case-based blended-learning expedite the transfer of declarative knowledge to procedural knowledge in practice?

Background: Case-Based Learning (CBL) has seen widespread implementation in undergraduate education since the early 1920s. Ample data has shown CBL to be an enjoyable and motivational didactic tool, and effective in assisting the expansion of declarative and procedural knowledge in academia. Although a plethora of studies apply multiple choice questions (MCQs) in their investigation, few studies measure CBL or case-based blended learning (CBBL)-mediated changes in students' procedural knowledge in practice or employ comparison or control groups in isolating causal relationships.

Case-based blended eLearning scenarios-adequate for competence development or more?

Background: Learning, competence development and scientific thinking in medicine need several strategies to facilitate new diagnostic and therapeutic ways. The optimal collaboration between creative thinking and biomedical informatics provides innovation for the individual patient and for a medical school or society. Utilizing the flexibilities of an e‑learning platform, a case based blended learning (CBBL) framework consisting of A) case based textbook material, B) online e‑CBL with question driven learning scenarios and C) simulated patient (SP) contact seminars was developed and implemented in multiple medical fields.