Med-Source
Although it is difficult to see how often this blog is updated it hosts a lot of information for medical students. For instance links to sites with free medical text books, useful websites and reference material.
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Med-Source, Blog for medical students
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Shrink Rap: Lifestyles of the Shrink Rappers
How to make up your mind about choosing psychiatry as a speciality in medicine. An excellent introduction
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Is it a chronic depression or personality disorder
This is one of the hardest questions to answer especially if your working on a inpatient unit with depressed patients. They are mostly severely ill for a long time and demoralised when they get admitted. To get a clear picture of what is wrong we usually get rid of all psychopharmacological drugs for diagnostic purposes. That's why i find this article of major importance, clearly written by experienced clinicians. The table offers clinical features that may help differentiate chronic depression from personality disorder.
Guidelines:
1. avoid unsupported conclusions based on nonresponse
2. bear in mind that depression is likely to make personality traits look more like full-fledged PDs by exaggerating a range of personality traits such as avoidance, dependence, and interpersonal sensitivity. Always consider what evidence exists that these were more than traits at any point when a patient was less markedly depressed
3. use multiple informants (family members, close friends, primary care doctors, psychotherapists) as well as other collateral information (eg, performance evaluations from work) to gauge the highest and usual levels of occupational and psychosocial functioning when less depressed. For example, even if the patient is in the middle of multiple struggles with his treatment team, a history from family and coworkers of the patient's typically satisfying stable work and personal relationships before a first episode of MDD in his mid-20s should lead a diagnostician to question the hypothesis of borderline PD.
4. systematically assess personality pathology with specific questions about onset, quality of relationships, mood fluctuations, and patterns of coping. In this respect, clinician-rated, semistructured interviews that inquire about specific symptoms and behaviors and associated impairment may be helpful as a supplement to global clinical impressions. This may be even more reliable than patient-rated questionnaires, which may be more sensitive but less specific.
Monday, April 16, 2007
ECT online, an English website about electroshock or ECT
This website aims to represent the science, the sociology and the emotion of electroconvulsive therapy fairly and in a way that can be easily understood
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
The Savvy Technologist
When reading the book: "Blogs, wikis, podcasts and other powerfull web tools for classrooms" I came across this blog. It is all about using new web technologies and education. http://technosavvy.org/ The book is by Will Richardson and when I've finished it I will review the book on this blog.
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