Advancing Assessment in Clinical Gerontology

Medical Gerontology in Clinical Practice

Advancing Electronic Assessment

A computer-aided assessment system is presented that has been designed to produce and deliver tests to the Hellenic Air Force Academy students and assess their performance. The system is called e-Xaminer and is intended for use in both undergraduate courses and distance learning post-graduate programs of the Academy. The e-Xaminer uses meta-language concepts to automatically generate tests, bas...

Advancing nursing home practice: the International Association of Geriatrics and Gerontology Recommendations.

Recognition of the urgent need to improve the provision of long-term care, as well as the known variations in standards of nursing home care around the world, prompted the International Association of Geriatrics and Gerontology (IAGG), in association with the World Health Organization (WHO), to form a task force. This task force was charged with the identification of the key concerns, research ...

Gerontology in Five Images.

In his Kent Award lecture, Scott Bass called for a greater coherence of gerontology. This article proposes that the teaching of gerontology is one way to address the centrifugal tendencies of the field and economize its disciplinary sprawl. The instructional strategy is to concentrate attention to a limited number of focal visuals from which the exposition of gerontological knowledge can radiat...

Advancing Clinical and Translational Science

The vision for the 2015–2020 American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) strategic plan is that ASCPT’s influence and leadership make it the authority on the science and practice of translational medicine, building on a foundation of clinical pharmacology and therapeutics (http://www.ascpt.org/About-ASCPT/ASCPT-StrategicPlan). The vision for Clinical and Translational Sc...