Good example for a different society with different gender issues. Local culture forbids men to look at or talk to Afghan women, so the Marine Corps deploys Female Engagement Teams to reach out ot them and address their needs Related posts: 6 Reasons why Female Doctors won’t Reach Senior Ranks Female Academics Pioneers in Science Under-representation of women in academic bioscience ..read more »

Thanks to Clinical cases and Images an astonishing video about how smart phone use delivers an enormous amount of data for scientists. Researchers are harvesting a wealth of intimate detail from cellphone data, uncovering the hidden patterns of social lives, travels, risk of disease - even political views. Related posts: Personality Traits and Political Attitude Metformin reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in Diabetes Mellitus 2 Final Verdict: Internet Enhances our Social Lives ..read more »

Social Networking Sites (SNS) grow in the number of users and have become a mass phenomenon. Time for some classification of these SNS users for both academic and practical purposes. previous research has been focused on the study of user behavior in specific SNSs using mainly psychological (entertainment, socializing, etc.) or sociodemographic variables. In the present study, we propose a classification of users for all SNSs in which they actively participate, using a wide spectrum of behavioral and sociodemographical variables. Introvert users: they are the smallest group of SNS users, mainly using SNSs for direct messaging. Mostly men older than 45 years .....read more »

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Please participate with this survey, especially European citizens. Let your voices be heard on this important topic. Results will be presented during the upcoming annual meeting of The American Psychiatric Association in Honolulu, Hawaii. It's up at ShrinkRap Please help us get a sense of the public sentiment towards psychiatry, psychiatrists, and psychiatric patients. We will be including this information in our presentation on The Public Face of Psychiatry at this year's annual meeting of The American Psychiatric Association. Please read all of the answers for all of the questions, then choose all that apply. If you choose "other," please type .....read more »

According to recent research it's not the patient who should select it. Possibly because the patient will be afraid choosing a kind of music not agreeable to the physician. Overall, listening to music during cardiac catheterization significantly reduces anxiety as measured before and after the procedure with the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). Moreover, all patients who listened to music had a trend to lower values of systolic and diastolic blood pressure and heart rate than control-group with no music. Women had higher anxiety scores before the procedure, the post operative score were similar in men and women. Women had a .....read more »

Medical students have to do a psychiatry clerkship during their training. At the end of their psychiatric clerkship they have to take their final examination on psychiatry for their medical degree. This exam consists of three parts. First they'll have to interview a patient. This interview is being watched and rated by a psychiatrist on several competencies such as interpersonal and communicational skills, and professionalism. Next they have to discuss this patient with the same psychiatrist to test their clinical reasoning in psychiatry and usually they are being questioned in this same exam about psychiatry at large, as a kind .....read more »

Discovered a cheery nice piece of music made by my favorite jazz pianist Bill Evans. It's a number from a recent acquisition of mine the album: the definitive Bill Evans on Riverside and fantasy. Made a slideshow with it so enjoy. More about Bill Evans on a Dutch site written in English about Bill Evans. This site has an enormous amount of information about Bill Evans an his music, obviously written by a very enthusiastic fan. Related posts: Bill Evans the most influential pianists in modern jazz Bill O’Reilly Has to Learn His Maths In Australia no ECT for involuntary patients, says New Mental .....read more »

Once in a while some really clinical relevant results in research is published. Picture this: first time psychoses, recovered with antipsychotics. Still stable after one year. Should we discontinue the antipsychotic medication? Nope, discontinuation of the antipsychotic in first time psychotic patients after one year increases the risk of relapse. After one year patients were gradually withdrawn from medication (n=11) and 9 patients continued their antipsychotic regimen. Due to the amount of patients relapsing after discontinuation the tial was ended prematurely. During the trial it appeared that, in contrast with continuation, gradual withdrawal from antipsychotic medication was almost invariably followed .....read more »

Important topic since drop out from med school is often accompanied with a direct economic loss to society. Knowledge about drop out could possibly prevent drop out from med school. In a recent literature review 625 studies were found about the topic of drop out from med school. Only 13 were included in this analyses because they attempted to account for confounding and were better in overall quality. The 13 studies eventually included originated from the USA (n = 5), Australia (n = 3), the UK (n = 2), the Netherlands (n = 2) and South Africa (n = 1). The influence .....read more »