scholarly journals Special interest sessions in psychiatry

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 187-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Stephenson ◽  
Alison Puffett
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
The South ◽  
Training Scheme ◽  
Educational Rights ◽  
Local Support ◽  
And Training

Aims and MethodWhile specialist registrars in psychiatry are entitled to spend one-fifth of their working week engaged in special interest sessions, little has been published on how the time is used. In order to describe what happens in practice, we conducted a semi-structured telephone survey of trainees on the South-East Thames Higher Training Scheme in psychiatry.ResultsThe results indicate that while most trainees (78%) were satisfied with their use of special interest time, those using two sessions regularly for a defined training purpose were in the minority.Clinical ImplicationsUse of special interest sessions is generally good in the scheme surveyed. If uptake of sessions is to be improved, there needs to be even better local support as well as existing national recognition of the educational rights of trainees. The local support should be at the level of both trust and training scheme.

scholarly journals Survey of psychotherapy experience and interest among psychiatric specialist registrars

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 223-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Pretorius ◽  
Rainer Goldbeck
Keyword(s):  
Royal College ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Perceived Competence ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Further Training ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Psychiatric Specialist ◽  
And Training

Aims and MethodA postal survey was conducted to determine what proportion of psychiatric specialist registrars working in Scotland (n=119, excluding those specialising in psychotherapy) met the requirements for experience in psychotherapy. Since 2004, this has been a compulsory part of eligibility criteria for the MRCPsych part II examination.ResultsTwo-thirds of those surveyed responded. One-third of respondents met the Royal College of Psychiatrists' requirements for psychotherapy experience. Half the respondents reported competence in at least one modality of psychotherapy. Four-fifths of respondents were interested in gaining further experience and training, two-thirds in developing a special interest and one-quarter in dual training, in at least one modality of College psychotherapy. There was no significant association between adherence to the requirements and self-perceived competence, qualification or the wish to gain further training and experience in psychotherapy.Clinical ImplicationsThe majority of trainees, even those interested in psychotherapy, still fail to meet College requirements. Many trainees would appreciate an opportunity to gain greater depth of psychotherapy experience, in addition to gaining broad experience of various aspects of psychotherapy as required by the College.

scholarly journals Five-year study (2000–2004) of trainees' publications in the Psychiatric Bulletin

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 306-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanju George ◽  
Ditesh Dhaya ◽  
Femi Oyebode
Keyword(s):  
Drug Information ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
And Training

Aims and MethodWe explored the contribution of trainees to the Psychiatric Bulletin by estimating the nature and proportion of papers by trainees published during a 5-year period: 2000–2004.ResultsNearly a third (30.7%) of all papers published during the 5 years were authored/co-authored by trainees. The predominant contribution was to education and training papers (66% of all the papers in this section), original papers (46%) and drug information quarterly papers (30%). The proportions of papers by trainees remained fairly consistent across the 5 years.Clinical ImplicationsOverall, the Psychiatric Bulletin appears to be ‘trainee-friendly’ and this should encourage trainees to submit papers to the Bulletin.

Providing Augmentative and Alternative Communication Treatment to Persons With Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Fried-Oken ◽  
Charity Rowland ◽  
Chris Gibbons
Keyword(s):  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Disease Course ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Verbal Expression ◽  
Nonfluent Aphasia ◽  
Oregon Health ◽  
And Training ◽  
Progressive Nonfluent Aphasia

Abstract Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) intervention offers people diagnosed with progressive nonfluent aphasia (PNFA) an opportunity to continue to communicate even as verbal expression declines. To date, there are no well-controlled studies reporting the effectiveness of AAC intervention with people who present with PNFA. Further, there is a pressing need for evidence about specific AAC intervention tools, techniques, and training protocols for persons with PNFA and their communication partners. We have engaged in research studies at the Oregon Health & Science University to quantify low-tech AAC supports for people with PNFA in highly controlled, as well as naturalistic, dyadic conversations. Preliminary results suggest that AAC provides strong lexical support for people with PNFA during conversation. We predict that training participants and their partners how to use personalized, low-tech communication boards will lead to reduced conversational scaffolding by partners and prolonged effective communication as the disease course progresses. Clinical implications and future directions of our research are discussed.

THE CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS OF HEMOGLOBIN STRUCTURE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 780-785
Author(s):  
Park S. Gerald
Keyword(s):  
Incidental Finding ◽  
Chief Complaint ◽  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Dominant Inheritance ◽  
Successful Completion ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Peripheral Neuritis ◽  
Paternal Aunt ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Training

I FEEL DEEPLY HONORED to be named as one of the recipients of the 1962 Mead Johnson Awards for research in pediatrics. I am grateful for this opportunity to express my indebtedness and gratitude to the many who have aided me, and especially to my sponsor, Dr. Louis K. Diamond. His unwavering confidence and unselfish support were major contributing factors toward the successful completion of these research efforts. Lack of time prevents me from giving an adequate list of those other teachers and associates who contributed significantly toward my research efforts and training, but time can never be so short as to prevent me from mentioning my stimulating and energetic co-worker, Dr. Mary Efron. I have saved to the last, mention of my wife, as she has so often cheerfully been the vital silent partner of experiments that seemed always to last "just a little longer" than I expected. In order to make this a coherent presentation, I am going to dwell solely upon the "Hb M diseases." This group of hemoglobinopathies is characterized by the presence of cyanosis in several generations of a given family, being transmitted as if determined by the presence of a single abnormal gene (i.e., "dominant" inheritance). In the first family of this disorder that came to our attention, the cyanosis was an incidental finding in a child whose chief complaint was an obscure peripheral neuritis. There seemed to be little relation between the peripheral neuritis and the cyanosis, since the child's brother, father, paternal aunt and other relatives also were cyanotic (Fig. 1), although lacking any neuritis.

Report of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association

PMLA ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 535-536
Author(s):  
Edward W. Bratton
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
The South ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Do So ◽  
Plaza Hotel

The 1976 convention of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association will be held at the new Peachtree Center Plaza Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 4-6 November. Chairmen of several of the eighty special interest and affiliated meetings comprising the convention have designated Bicentennial themes for their programs in keeping with the nation's celebration of her 200th birthday. Convention preregistration and special housing rates on rooms blocked for SAMLA use are restricted to members of the Association, but persons interested in joining SAMLA and receiving full convention information can do so by forwarding annual dues of $7.00 (graduate students, $2.00; joint husband-wife, $9.00) by no later than 1 October to: SAMLA, Box 8410, U. T. Station, Knoxville, Tennessee 37916.

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