Imagine …and Save the Date for the 2018 SharpBrains Virtual Summit: December 4–6th
Imagine a videogame cleared by the FDA to treat ADHD, depression, or substance abuse — how will doctors prescribe it, patients access it, and insurers pay for it?
Imagine a free “annual brain check-up” — what may it look like, and how can it lead into personalized interventions to improve function and prevent/ delay/ treat cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s Disease?
Imagine being responsible for the health & wellness of a million people — how will you educate them to navigate most-likely-to-help interventions, such as breathing/ exercise/ meditation/ apps/ biofeedback/ tDCS to regulate stress?...
Source: SharpBrains - April 10, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Professional Development Technology 2018 brain health for all Brain-health sharpbrains SharpBrains Summit Source Type: blogs
In My Panic Zone: Teaching Feedback Seeking
By J.M. Monica van de Ridder Teaching is something that I have been doing for over 20 years. So, in general, I don’t worry about it. I think I know what works and does not work. Things were very different for me this time. I was worried, and I felt very much out of my […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 3, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: reflectivemeded Tags: Health Care medical education medical professionalism mentoring mentorship Pedagogy Educational Innovation Professional Development Self-Care Wellness syndicated Source Type: blogs
DARPA invests in nonsurgical neurotechnologies for eventual use in healthy human subjects
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Nonsurgical Neural Interfaces Could Significantly Expand Use of Neurotechnology (DARPA News):
“Over the past two decades, the international biomedical research community has demonstrated increasingly sophisticated ways to allow a person’s brain to communicate with a device, allowing breakthroughs aimed at improving quality of life, such as access to computers and the internet, and more recently control of a prosthetic limb.
The state of the art in brain-system communications has employed invasive techniques that allow precise, high-quality connections to specific neurons or groups of neurons. These techniques have ...
Source: SharpBrains - March 21, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Peak Performance Professional Development Technology biomedical DARPA device EEG electroencephalogram invasive N3 Neurons Neurotechnology noninvasive Nonsurgical prosthetic tDCS Transcranial-direct- Source Type: blogs
ACCME Announces New Collaboration with ABPath
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Board of Pathology (ABPath) are pleased to announce a new collaboration to simplify the integration of accredited continuing medical education (CME) and Continuous Certification (formerly referred to as Maintenance of Certification).
The ACCME and ABPath share a commitment to supporting pathologists’ continuing professional development and to improving pathologists’ performance and their care of patients. The collaboration is designed to expand the number and diver...
Source: Policy and Medicine - March 19, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Psychotherapy trainees ’ experiences of their own mandatory personal therapy raise “serious ethical considerations”
By Christian Jarrett
Many training programmes for psychotherapists and counsellors include a mandatory personal therapy component – as well as learning about psychotherapeutic theories and techniques, and practising being a therapist, the trainee must also spend time in therapy themselves, in the role of a client. Indeed, the British Psychological Society’s own Division of Counselling Psychology stipulates that Counselling Psychology trainees must undertake 40 hours of personal therapy as part of obtaining their qualification.
What is it like for trainees to complete their own mandatory therapy? A new meta-synthes...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Qualitative Therapy Source Type: blogs
Get to Know Your Asian Indian Caucus
The AIC Caucus met this past November at the 2017 ASHA Convention in Los Angeles.
A monolingual speech-language pathologist recently reached out to ASHA’s Asian Indian Caucus (AIC) for a Tamil-speaking SLP to provide services for a 70-year-old elderly New Jersey man. The patient had expressive aphasia due to a recent stroke.
The AIC community—through its active listserve—immediately located a bilingual SLP who spoke English and Tamil. The SLP worked with the client’s local SLP to help him receive linguistically and culturally appropriate services.
In another instance, a 35-year-old female vocalist— referred to th...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Akila Rajappa Tags: Advocacy Audiology Speech-Language Pathology ASHA Convention Cultural Diversity Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Get to Know Your Asian Indian Caucus
A monolingual speech-language pathologist recently reached out to ASHA’s Asian Indian Caucus (AIC) for a Tamil-speaking SLP to provide services for a 70-year-old elderly New Jersey man. The patient had expressive aphasia due to a recent stroke.
The AIC community—through its active listserve—immediately located a bilingual SLP who spoke English and Tamil. The SLP worked with the client’s local SLP to help him receive linguistically and culturally appropriate services.
In another instance, a 35-year-old female vocalist— referred to the AIC by a laryngologist in California—was seeking consultation from an SLP with...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Akila Rajappa Tags: Advocacy Audiology Slider Speech-Language Pathology ASHA Convention Cultural Diversity Professional Development Source Type: blogs
This Has To Be Good News For Those Interested In Digital Health!
This announcement appeared last week:HiNZ launches dedicated news service for health IT sectorFebruary 28, 2018New Zealand ’s health IT sector is getting a dedicated local news service this month with the launch of eHealthNews.nz. The new website and eNewsletter is being launched by Health Informatics New Zealand (HiNZ) on 15 March 2018. HiNZ is a not-for-profit organisation with a focus on events and professional development. Its annual conference is the largest digital health event in New Zealand, attracting more than 900 delegates from a diverse range of professions within healthcare, technology, and governm...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - March 7, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Connecting Personal Accomplishment with Burnout Amongst Radiology Residents
Residents are under a lot of pressure, and they ’re typically expected to work 80 hours a week and 28-hour long shifts. These unwavering high demands can result in disastrousburnout. A newstudy published inAcademic Radiology found that despite theexhausting workload, residents can achieve a sense of personal accomplishment (PA) with ample peer and educator-promoted resources. Jeffrey P. Guenette, MD, and Stacy E. Smith, MD, two radiologists from Brigham and Women ’s Hospital who conducted the study, surveyed over 300 residents on their perspectives of professional development and burnout. There was a notable gender d...
Source: radRounds - March 2, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
What Are Your Priorities as an Audiologist or SLP? Mine is Decluttering
Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a two-part series on setting professional priorities for the new year. Read part one: Setting New Year’s Goals? Even Little Changes Can Make a Big Difference.
It’s easy to say and harder to do, but what do you really want from 2018 as an audiologist or speech-language pathologist? Are you trying to improve your sessions with students/clients? Are you trying to grow your business?
Whatever your goals are for 2018, think about your top priority. What one goal do you really want to accomplish this year?
If you know this primary goal, then you can more easily—and willin...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 28, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Dan Fitch Tags: Audiology Speech-Language Pathology Health Care Practice Management private practice Professional Development Schools Source Type: blogs
Make World Hearing Day Count
Far from just another calendar observance, March 3 marks an opportunity to raise awareness of hearing care—and the services provided by audiologists.
Next week will bring World Hearing Day, an especially relevant day for the profession of audiology. Each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) designates March 3 as an international day of outreach on the subject of hearing care. This year’s theme is “Hear the Future.” We hope to make it easy for you to champion the cause using a new Digital Toolkit ASHA created for members.
This year’s theme spotlights an anticipated rise in the number of people with heari...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 21, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Elise Davis-McFarland Tags: Advocacy Audiology Hearing Assistive Technology hearing loss hearing protection Professional Development speech-language pathology Source Type: blogs
Going the Extra Mile: A Med Student ’s Marathon
By Shoshana B. Weiner “4 ounces water every mile, half an electrolyte ‘gu’ pack over 2.5 miles, ¼ energy bar every 6 miles.” AKA how did you manage training for a marathon while in medical school? The simple truth: I decided to run a marathon so I did. Longer story: months of rigorous training, more […] (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 20, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: reflectivemeded Tags: Health Care identity formation medical school Professional Development Professional Development Self-Care Wellness syndicated Source Type: blogs
3 Techniques to Reduce Job Burnout
Around six years ago, I quit being a speech-language pathologist. It was only my fourth year in the profession, but I was exhausted and stressed, and eventually lost my passion for the work. Every night I felt a sense of dread because I knew the next day would arrive too soon and with too much to do. Some days, I simply panicked.
I didn’t realize I was actually going through something called “burnout.”
Burnout involves more than just feeling a bit tired and stressed. This condition can affect all aspects of daily life. The World Health Organization officially recognizes burnout as “exhaustion of physical or emotio...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 20, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Audiology Speech-Language Pathology Health Care meditation Practice Management Professional Development Schools Source Type: blogs
The ALiEM Faculty Incubator
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A project I’m excited about this year is the ALiEM Faculty Incubator programme. I’m going to join the team as a guest mentor, and I anticipate learning far more than I teach!
This is what it’s about:
The ALiEM Faculty Incubator is a year-long professional development program for educators, which enrolls members into a mentored digital community of practice. This small, 30-person, exclusive community will stoke the fires of creative engagement through mento...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 10, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Education ALIEM clinician educator facubator faculty incubator Source Type: blogs
Working Through Grief: Two SLPs Share Their Stories
Twelve years separated their clinical fellowship (CF) experiences, and one fate united them. Their paths intersected personally and professionally when Phuong Lien Palafox became Leah Joseph’s CF supervisor and they learned of their similar experiences. Here are their CF stories.
Phuong’s CF story 2004
I couldn’t do it anymore. I quit my doctoral program, and the next week I found out Má’s cancer had returned. The timing was impeccable, and I moved home to be with my mother and start my clinical fellowship. My days were spent making mistakes, learning and becoming a professional. My evenings were spent by my m...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 7, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Phuong Palafox Tags: Speech-Language Pathology audiology Professional Development Source Type: blogs
