KI: Michael Levin from Brad Kremer on Vimeo. Nice video, photographer at work but most of all also an excellent camera men. There’s a new twist on the ubiquitous photo shoot behind-the-scenes video and it looks less like something you’d see on YouTube and more like something you’d see on MTV (well, back when MTV played music videos). F STOP photographer Michael Levin recently showed me a stylized short film of him shooting on the south coast of Japan. It’s stylized, it’s slick Related posts: Time Laps Video of The Alps Birds on a Wire Made Into A Song and Video Incredible Collaborative Music .....read more »

Very inspiring, funny talk starting with a nice anecdote about a Dutch art collector selling a Vermeer to a nazi in World War 2. Why do we like an original painting better than a forgery? Psychologist Paul Bloom argues that human beings are essentialists -- that our beliefs about the history of an object change how we experience it, not simply as an illusion, but as a deep feature of what pleasure (and pain) is. No related posts. ..read more »

In Academia it's common knowledge that a critical component of academic success in health sciences is promoted by a mentor. A lot of health science institutions have invested in formal mentoring programs for faculty and trainees. But what makes a mentor and outstanding mentor from the perspective of a mentee. What are the key characteristics of these outstanding mentors? From qualitative research of the important qualities of outstanding mentors as described by their mentees’ letters of nomination for a prestigious lifetime achievement award inmentorship, the key characteristics are: Admirable characteristics of mentors included descriptions of outgoing and interactive personalities, kindness, and justness as .....read more »

From a structured review of websites of 1800 US hospitals focusing on their Facebook, Twitter and Youtube accounts: 21% used social media More likely to be large, urban hospitals run by nonprofit, nongovernment organisations More likely to participate in graduate medical education Used social media to target a general audience (97%) Provide content about the entire organization (93%) Announce news and events (91%) Further public relations (89%) Promote health (90%). In short, used social media for unidirectional communication. Thaker SI, Nowacki AS, Mehta NB, & Edwards AR (2011). How U.S. hospitals use social media. Annals of internal medicine, 154 (10), 707-8 PMID: 21576547Related posts: Social Media in Health and Medicine: Medlibs .....read more »

So now and than you discover beautiful new music, at least new to your ear. It's been there for a while. Discovered it yesterday attending the funeral of the mother of a friend. Matches the weather Related posts: The Machine and The Music: This Too Shall Pass Two remarkable music videos: Babies and Robots Suicide rates increase with hot weather ..read more »

Received a mood lifting email written by one of my distinguished colleagues from Britain which I couldn't resist publishing here for my readers. The colleague is Peter Tyrer. I call upon ZDoggMD to write some music to it, preferably hip hop. I thought that, despite our best intentions, we are all in the Impact Factory together and perhaps we need to have a British Journal of Psychiatry song we could sing to our potential contributors, which I know includes all of us, so here it is: The Impact Factory Song There comes a time of year Which for some yields joy and cheer Whereas for others it brings .....read more »

This time-lapse video was made for a video contest for residents. It's a look inside a busy time in the OR, showing all the people involved during different procedures. Fine example of why hygiene is such an important topic in hospitals. More videos in this contest here No related posts. ..read more »

In this video a certain Dr Oz gets dissed, if that's the right word. For all god reasons you can read them at ZDoggMD. A phenomenon not very popular were I live, fortunately. What do you think?Related posts: A Video Educating Parents About Vaccinations The Safe Sex Song in Hip Hop Postpartum Depression and Mass Media ..read more »

Personal usage of of the web during work (PWU) is still a matter of debate. Should it be allowed or is it another form of procrastination, disadvantageous to the employers. Should employers limit PWU through monitoring and Internet usage policies? PWU can vary between reading news to watching pornography, is this all bad? Employees can use the Internet in a variety of ways not always harming their employees. It could enhance the work of some employees. There are many kinds of PWU behaviors. In short a lot of questions starting to be answered with some recent research. The first question is .....read more »

Readers from this blog recognize my interest in presentation skills. Not only the presenting but also the design of slides. Often I've written about the boring powerpoint slides often used in lectures with endless bullet points and great deal of text. Several authors have explained why these bullet points won't teach the audience anything. They have argued why simple design principles in developing the slides does improve the retention of information. how people learn best from words and pictures, based on the theoretical underpinnings of multimedia learning theory, and, accordingly, to understand how to design effective multimedia instructional messages Multimedia learning .....read more »