When to use a presentation or documents? In this video from the Duarte Blog it's explained when to use ballroom presentations in contrast to just using documents or conference room presentations. The main subject of this video is also accompanied by a pdf file free to download here. Very useful. Nancy Duarte is the author of Slide:ology, reviewed in this post. This book and Presentation Zen are both excellent books about ballroom presentations. Ballroom presentations are presentations for a large audience with hardly any bullet points and slick graphic design as well as a good structure of the presentation. Here is one .....read more »

Short and quick video with some suggestions on new and booming websites. Found flora.tv and popurl.com very interesting but have a look yourself. Time 50 best websites of 2009 Related posts:100 Best Websites for Chocolate Fanatics Three Factors to Evaluate the Quality of Medical Websites 10 Websites With The Best Information on Depression ..read more »

The Music In Me from Cambridge University on Vimeo. Researchers found that sample groups of subjects regularly make the same assumptions about people's personalities, values, social class and even their ethnicity, based on their musical preferences....music is a powerful form of social expression that can reinforce stereotypes and, potentially, social prejudices. By stating a preference for a musical style, many of us appear to use music as a "badge" to tell people about our personality and values Want to know more read it on Physorg.com Related posts:Facebook Privacy Concerns in Young Adults Dutch Microfluidic Chip simulates metabolism of medicine in human body Personality Traits and .....read more »

For biomedical departments research and scientific output have become of great importance. Clinical research group as one of the subgroups of biomedical research groups need talented researchers and proper management to survive in "the scientific rat race". The research group itself is not the only factor contributing to it's success. Other important factors are the organization in which the group is embedded, national scientific policy as well as the community itself play an important role. What factors contribute to the success of research groups? Research groups consists of 80% researchers and 20% administrative personnel. The optimal size of a research group is .....read more »

“In general, a motivated GP in an urban setting (where the rate of depression is 20%) would correctly diagnose ten out of 20 cases, missing ten true positives. The GP would correctly reassure 65 out of 80 non-depressed individuals, falsely diagnosing 15 people as depressed”? Now is this a bad thing? I don't think so. The diagnoses of depression has a large overlap with adjustment disorders. An adjustment disorder will subside within weeks all by itself. Most mild depressions which exist shorter than 3 months subside within weeks to months (50%). Moreover, more-severe cases of depression are diagnosed more reliably than less-severe .....read more »

The weekly grand round of medical people interested in sharing their best writing from the past week is up at The Examining Room of Dr Charles Scattered among excellent posts are flashbacks to the old school world of 2004 in which Grand Rounds was first conceived. To add some extra relevance I’ve visited some of my favorite medical blogs and mined them for good stuff. Here we go, Old School Grand Rounds, a nod to 2004 when it all began, with some of my homies lending their street credibility Related posts:Grand Rounds Vol 6 No 3 is up at Pallimed Grand Rounds .....read more »

As a gadget freak ordered this Livescribe Smart Pen quickly. Deliverance went smooth and quick. I have been using this pen for a while now, mostly with intakes, meetings, symposium and courses. It's wonderful. For instance an intake will take about one hour. This only takes 10 MB on my 1 GB pen, so up to 10 hours of recording. You have to get used to using only catchwords. In the beginning I wrote a lot of text which isn't necessary. Just some catchwords will do and it will also save you some paper. You have to use a special kind .....read more »

Online Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy for Depression: Pretrial assessment screening by telephone for in and exclusion criteria A face to face appointment with one of the researchers to complete a computerized assessment: SCID and Beck Depression Inventory Online CBT with a therapist online in real time Patients were allocated to one therapist Patients made their own appointments online Sessions were secured by individual passwords Patienst and therapists typed free text into the computer, with messages sent instantaneously; no other media or means of communication were used So this is how you do online real time cognitive behavioral therapy. But does it work? 43 (38%) patients recovered from depression (BDI score .....read more »

The Corpus Clock has been invented and designed by Dr John Taylor for Corpus Christi College Cambridge for the exterior of the college's new library building. The £1 million timepiece, known as The Corpus Clock, has been commissioned and designed to honour the John Harrison, who was famously the pioneer of Longitude and inventor of the esoteric clock mechanism known as a grasshopper escapement. The clock has been designed by the inventor and horologist Dr John Taylor and makes ingenious use of the grasshopper escapement, moving it from the inside of the clock to the outside and refashioning it as a Chronophage, .....read more »

Recommended reading is a weekly summary of interesting posts and selected links I posted on Twitter [recreading] Related posts:Recommended Reading from This Week Recommended Reading This Week Recommended Reading This Week ..read more »