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In the United States, similar to other high-income countries, patients with complex health and social needs comprise a disproportionate amount of healthcare costs. Despite their frequent inpatient and emergency room usage, these patients receive ineffective care for their medical, social and behavioral needs, which often result from social determinants of health (SDoH). As the international dialogue on the importance of SDoH on health outcomes peaks, innovative strategies for teaching learners how to deliver care to patients with complex health and social needs has emerged as a top priority for health professions training programs. Student hotspotting, in which interprofessional student teams provide personalized, hands-on, intensive team-based interventions largely targeting the SDoH to patients with complex health and social needs, is one such program. We conducted a 7-month pilot study to explore whether students who participated in student hotspotting experienced an increase in their knowledge of, comfort working with, and empathy toward medically and socially complex patients. Preliminary results indicate that student participants exhibit greater self-efficacy and empathy than a control group of nonparticipating students, with the gap in the latter widening over time. While further study is warranted given limitations in the sample size and from attrition, this pilot study suggests that student hotspotting may be an effective way to better prepare our healthcare workforce to provide patient-centered, team-based care to patients with complex health and social needs and to reduce healthcare expenditures.The Australian and New Zealand Clinician Educator Network (ANZCEN) is a collaborative interprofessional group developed to promote the development of education in critical care healthcare practice. find more In November 2018, 45 critical care practitioners met at the first ANZCEN Unconference. In an unconference, the participants drive the agenda, and learning occurs from the active process of engaging in a community of practice. The aim of this unconference was to develop an innovative approach to learning through a collaborative framework with interprofessional representation across critical care specialties. Four key themes were identified in the unconference as drivers of interprofessional critical care educational priorities interprofessional learning, workplace learning, faculty development, research, and scholarship. In this discussion paper, we describe our experiences organizing, participating in, and evaluating an unconference, and we examine its usefulness as a medium for promoting the interprofessional learning agenda in critical care. We hope that the processes outlined in this discussion paper will provide a useful resource for other clinicians who are considering developing an unconference. Finally, we argue that the unconference offers a unique and important model for future education of critical care practitioners where the emphasis on collaboration and communication through interprofessional learning and practice will be required to improve health outcomes and promote a patient-centered model of care.OBJECTIVE Colorectal cancer (CRC) is common across countries in males and females. Most cases originate from adenomas harboring high grade dysplasia. Among risk factors, weight excess has been suggested to positively influence dysplasia progression. In this study, the relationship between dysplasia grade of adenomas and body mass index (BMI) categories was analyzed. METHODS This was a retrospective case-control study. A total of 4745 charts (59.8% females) from patients undergoing colonoscopy were collected. Data regarding age, sex, smoking habits, occupation, residence, personal history of CRC, personal history of polyps and BMI were retrieved. Adenomas with high-grade dysplasia were labeled as advanced. RESULTS They were 970 (20.4%) subjects with adenomas (cases mean age 64.67 ± 11.35 years) and 3775 without (controls mean age 56.43 ± 16.56 years). As expected, adenomas were significantly associated with overweight or obesity. After adjusting for all covariates the presence of advanced adenoma was significantly associated with age, male sex, smoking habits, personal history of CRC, overweight (OR = 1.298, IC 95% 1.092-1.697) and obesity (OR = 1.780, IC 95% 1.260-2.515). CONCLUSIONS Our findings support the protective effect a normal weight against advanced adenomas. Reduction of BMI value should be pursued in healthy programs.Background Type 2 diabetes (T2D) incurs tremendous health costs associated with various complications due to poor diabetes control. Medication adherence, which is correlated with patients' health literacy, should be consistently practiced achieving optimal diabetes control. A deeper understanding of the specific communication and psychosocial factors related to medication-taking behaviors across different levels of health literacy among people with T2D will guide the development of effective interventions and strategies to enhance medication adherence.Objectives This cross-sectional study aimed to identify salient patient factors associated with diabetes medication adherence across different levels of health literacy.Methods A questionnaire was administered via a face-to-face approach with 205 participants at a family medicine clinic. Study participants were all above 20 years of age with T2D, were prescribed at least one oral diabetes medication, and understood English. The questionnaire assessed participantts with low health literacy, help improve self-efficacy, and address perceived barriers to medication adherence among all low-adherent patients to optimally support patients' diabetes care.Reaching from standing requires simultaneous adjustments of focal and postural task elements. We investigated the ability of people with stroke to stabilize the endpoint trajectory while maintaining balance during standing reaches. Nineteen stroke and 11 age-equivalent healthy subjects reached toward a target (n=30 trials) located beyond arm length from standing. Endpoint and center of mass (COM) trajectories were analyzed using the uncontrolled manifold (UCM) approach, with segment angles as elemental variables. A Synergy Index (SI) represented the normalized difference between segment angle combinations leading to endpoint or COM trajectory stabilization (VUCM) and lack of stabilisation (in an orthogonal space, VORT). A higher SI reflects greater stability. In both groups, the endpoint SI (SIEND) decreased in parallel with endpoint velocity and returned close to baseline at the end of the movement. The range of SIEND was significantly greater in stroke (median 0.87; QR0.54) compared to healthy subjects (median 0.