EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION IN ADVOCACY FOR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY STUDENTS: DIDACTIC APPROACHES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Advocacy is a foundational value in occupational therapy, but uniformity in teaching and learning advocacy is lacking.This paper proposes and reports on the implementation of an advocacy course based on experiential education.The objective of the study was to evaluate student learning after an advocacy course with an experiential education componen

In contrast to abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), aneurysms of the thoracic ascending aorta (TAA) are not associated with a mural thrombus.Mechanistic understanding of the involvement of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) in thrombus formation is lacking.We aim to determine (i) whether thrombin generation at the surface of VSMCs is increased in AAA