A group of US and UK colleagues have published an interesting qualitative study about the challenges and resiliency of military mental health professionals (MMHPs). They had a small non-representative sample of British MMHPs who had completed a period of deployment in Iraq between 2003-2005. For the study, they participated in detailed interviews about their experiences [...]
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I’m an intellectual stalker!
September 20, 2007
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One of the URMC colleagues with whom I previously talked about blogging, asked me about mindmapping today (see my mapping posts). Because she has sequentially hit upon a couple of my key interests, she questioned whether she’s an “intellectual stalker”–a phrase I thought was just hilarious. Part of what tickles me about the phrase and [...]
Read moreConversation with Michelle Lang, Ph.D. of RFMH
September 18, 2007
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I had an interesting conversation a few weeks ago with Michelle Lang, PhD, a colleague with the New York State Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene. RFMH is essentially the research and program evaluation arm of the NYS Office of Mental Health. Dr. Lang has completed a pilot study on the feasibility of routine suicidality screening [...]
Read moreCTL to Healthcare Professional Mindmappers: Delurk!
August 28, 2007
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Gaelen O’Connell over at Mindjet contacted me to ask if I knew of other healthcare professionals who are use or write about mindmapping. I thought it was a good question. I couldn’t think of anyone, but realized that if there were others out there, I would love to connect. So..if there are any [...]
Read moreeMJA: The effect of Web 2.0 on the future of medical practice and education: Darwikinian evolution or folksonomic revolution?
August 23, 2007
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Found this informative and resource-rich article, thanks to a post by PsychSplash about it. I was glad to read this overview, which relates to thoughts I’ve had about web 2.0 opportunities (see related posts). eMJA: The effect of Web 2.0 on the future of medical practice and education: Darwikinian evolution or folksonomic revolution? Related posts: [...]
Read moreMore blogging to come at URMC?
April 25, 2007
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I was invited to an informal, coffee-cart conversation about blogging in a medical center. A person in our organization wants to develop a group blog around the interest area of Community Health. A few reflections on this conversation, which took place on Friday. We spent a fair amount of time on definitional ambiguities around the [...]
Read moreBlogScholar Post about Web 2.0 in Academia
April 18, 2007
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BlogScholar has an interesting post about Web 2.0 opportunities and academia. Since I’ve posted before about blogging out in the open in a clinical setting and academic health center, I thought this would be a good follow-up link: BlogScholar.com – Flatland Metaphor
Read moreUnintended consequences of antidepressant black box warning?
April 11, 2007
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An article by Charles Nemeroff and colleagues in the Archives of General Psychiatry this month reports reports on the “Impact of Publicity Concerning Pediatric Suicidality Data on Physician Practice Patterns in the United States.” (If you don’t have access to the journal, you can read a report on the article here.) The authors show [...]
Read moreTreatment teams as “Communities of Practice”
April 4, 2007
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Still thinking about the intersection of clinical practice, risk assessment, knowledge management (KM), and Dave Snowden, which I blogged about yesterday. In KM world, what mental health clinicians call a “treatment team” could be considered a Community of Practice. There are many definitions of this term and treatment teams fit some more than others. But [...]
Read moreOrganizational factors that support care of suicidal person
March 7, 2007
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Wendi Cross, a gifted and innovative colleague in our department, presented at our Family Research Roundtable yesterday. One of the ways she is contributing to the field is to raise awareness about, and develop methodology to study, the factors surrounding implementation of an evidence-based intervention (be it training, prevention, or therapeutic intervention) that influence its [...]
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