Use of Psych Meds in Medical Students and Residents
About 75% of med students and residents use psychoactive drugs. When does use become abuse, and what can we do about it? (Source: Medscape Medscape Podcast)
Source: Medscape Medscape Podcast - October 23, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Drug Abuse in Medical Students and Residents
About 75% of med students and residents use psychoactive drugs. When does use become abuse, and what can we do about it? (Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Podcast)
Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Podcast - October 23, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
The World Bank - the Global Financing Facility
The world bank was set up in 1944. In the aftermath of the second world war, the institution was there to give loans to countries rebuilding after the conflict. Their first loan went to France - but with stipulations about repayment that set a tone for future funds.
A new series, authored by Devi Sridhar, and her team from the University of Edinburgh, and published on bmj.com, looks at where the World Bank has come. The series is , and the articles will cover;
Why the World Bank matters to global health
The World Bank’s turn to Universal health coverage How the Bank’s trust funds are being used to fund specific proj...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 1, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
The World Bank - the Global Financing Facility
The world bank was set up in 1944. In the aftermath of the second world war, the institution was there to give loans to countries rebuilding after the conflict. Their first loan went to France - but with stipulations about repayment that set a tone for future funds.
A new series, authored by Devi Sridhar, and her team from the University of Edinburgh, and published on bmj.com, looks at where the World Bank has come. The series is , and the articles will cover;
Why the World Bank matters to global health
The World Bank’s turn to Universal health coverage
How the Bank’s trust funds are being used to fund specific proje...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 1, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
The World Bank - trust funds
The world bank was set up in 1944. In the aftermath of the second world war, the institution was there to give loans to countries rebuilding after the conflict. Their first loan went to France - but with stipulations about repayment that set a tone for future funds.
A new series, authored by Devi Sridhar, and her team from the University of Edinburgh, and published on bmj.com, looks at where the World Bank has come. The series is , and the articles will cover;
Why the World Bank matters to global health
The World Bank’s turn to Universal health coverage How the Bank’s trust funds are being used to fund specific proj...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 1, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
The World Bank - trust funds
The world bank was set up in 1944. In the aftermath of the second world war, the institution was there to give loans to countries rebuilding after the conflict. Their first loan went to France - but with stipulations about repayment that set a tone for future funds.
A new series, authored by Devi Sridhar, and her team from the University of Edinburgh, and published on bmj.com, looks at where the World Bank has come. The series is , and the articles will cover;
Why the World Bank matters to global health
The World Bank’s turn to Universal health coverage
How the Bank’s trust funds are being used to fund specific proje...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 1, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Book Review: The Grit Guide for Teens
Every once in a while you stumble across a book that is very much relevant to your present circumstances and as if written with you in mind; The Girt Guide for Teens happens to be such a book that is proving really valuable to me in my current endeavor of championing positive education.
Some of you might know, that I am currently executing a long term positive education intervention in a school in Pune, which is structured around VIA character strengths. One of the strengths we are focusing on is Grit, the target audience is teenagers and this book has been God-send!
Along side Angela Duckowrth’s book, which I rev...
Source: The Mouse Trap - August 8, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: Book review grit Source Type: podcasts
Emotions as a Result of Approach and Avoidance
There is a powerful theory in psychology, proposed by Carver and Scheier, about how emotions arise as an indication of how we are progressing towards our goals. Today’s post will be elaborating and extending on that model.
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Basically this cybernetic theory of emotions, is based on that fact that most of our actions are goal directed, we are either trying to archive a desired end state / goal; or we are trying to avoid an undesirable end-state or anti-goal. The same action or overt behavior may be motivated by different goal related orientation. For e.g., a student studying for a test may ...
Source: The Mouse Trap - August 6, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: emotion movement approach system avoidance system basic emotions Source Type: podcasts
Venezuela's green helmets: The Lancet: August 3, 2017
Manuel Rueda discusses the humanitarian work of medical students and doctors in Venezuela ’s violent street protests. (Source: Listen to The Lancet)
Source: Listen to The Lancet - August 4, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Lancet Source Type: podcasts
Research Summaries: Self-controlled children stay leaner in the transition to adolescence
This study was a prospective longitudinal study that looked at over 100 children in a school setting, and measured their self control and BMI while in grade 5 (mean age 10.5) and correlated it with their BMI when in grade 8.
Self-control was measured using a variety of methods. Students filled 2 self-report measures of self-control: The Impulsivity subscale of the Eysenck I6 Junior Questionnaire and The Brief Self-Control Scale. Parents as well as teachers also filled the informant version of Brief self-control scale. Apart from this Kirby Delay-Discounting Rate Monetary Choice Questionnaire was used to present hypothetica...
Source: The Mouse Trap - July 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: obesity Research Summaries Angela Duckworth self-control Source Type: podcasts
Research Summaries: Development and Validation of the Short Grit Scale (Grit –S)
This research summary will be especially attractive to those who have interest in psychometric and would like to see how the concept and measure of grit has evolved. In this paper, Angela Duckworth refines her measurement of grit and establishes the test-retest stability of the concept apart form predictive and consensual validity.
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The authors wanted to come up with a briefer version of the grit scale, which would have better internal consistency and still retain the predictive power and the two factor structure of Consistency of Interests ...
Source: The Mouse Trap - July 22, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: Research Summaries Angela Duckworth grit Source Type: podcasts
Research Summaries: Positive predictors of teacher effectiveness
This study looked at grit, life satisfaction and optimism of teachers as predictors of their effectiveness which will distinguish high performing teachers from the mediocre.
They conducted a prospective longitudinal study wherein, grit, life satisfaction and optimistic explanatory style of novice Teach for America teachers was measured before they started school year. The gains in academic performance of the students they taught was used as an indicator of their effectiveness at the school year end.
Grit, the ability to work hard under challenging circumstances, may be relevant to teacher effectiveness as they do face cons...
Source: The Mouse Trap - July 22, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: happiness Research Summaries Angela Duckworth grit Martin Seligman Optimism teaching Source Type: podcasts
Research Summaries: Empirical identification of the major facets of Conscientiousness
This research summary looks at a paper co-authored by Angela Duckworth, that tries to carve conscientiousness at it joints.
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Conscientiousness is a personality trait that is present in most personality theories and measured by most personality inventories, the most famous of these being the Big Five or OCEAN model and as measured by Big Five Inventory (BFI)/ NEO-PI-R.
Personality traits structure is supposed to be hierarchical with traits like Conscientiousness comprising of many finer aspects or facets. The NEO-PI-R is structured around 6 facets ...
Source: The Mouse Trap - July 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: personality Research Summaries Angela Duckworth Conscientiousness Source Type: podcasts
Research Summaries: Self-Discipline Outdoes IQ in Predicting Academic Performance of Adolescents
Today’s research summary focuses on a very early article by Angela Duckworth, that first catapulted her to fame. Co-authored with Martin Seligmen, the article focuses on how non-cognitive factors like self-control are a better predictor of scholastic achievement than say cognitive factors like IQ.
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Authors use the awkward term self-discipline in the paper, but all they really meant was self-control, defining which, and around which, a rich literature already existed. Angela clarifies as much in her ne...
Source: The Mouse Trap - July 13, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: intelligence Research Summaries academic achievment character strengths IQ self-control Source Type: podcasts
