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Psychodynamic approaches to teaching medical students about the doctor-patient relationship: Randomised controlled trial
No full textAims and method:
To evaluate the effectiveness of two psychodynamic psychotherapy teaching methods, a student psychotherapy scheme (SPS) and participation in a Balint group, in teaching first-year clinical medical students about doctor-patient communication and the doctor-patient relationship. The 28 students, who were randomly allocated to three groups (SPS group, Balint group starting at baseline and Balint group starting at 3 months and acting as partial controls), were rated on a questionnaire testing their knowledge of emotional and psychodynamic aspects of the doctor-patient relationship administered at baseline, at 3 months and at 1 year.
Results:
At 3 months, students in the SPS and Balint groups scored higher than the partial control group, the difference approaching significance at the 5% level. At 1 year, participation in either teaching method led to significantly higher scores compared with baseline.
Clinical implications:
Psychodynamic psychotherapy teaching methods are effective in increasing students’ knowledge of the doctor-patient relationship and potentially also improving their communication skills
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
La revisión emocional del encuentro médico-terapéutico en M. Balint, P. Freeling y K. Browne (1957-1967)
No full textThe emotional perspective of the doctor-patient relationship and the trust inherent in this interrelation are analysed through medical narratives published in the 1960s by Michael Balint, Kevin Browne and Paul Freeling. Balint promoted the so-called ‘Balint Groups’ in the Tavistock clinic (London), in which Browne and Freeling participated. Their publications are part of the psychoanalytic and psychosomatic approach, that updated the consideration of the person as a whole and showed the meaning of emotions in illness. Balint, Browne and Freeling highlighted the therapeutic nature of the doctor-patient relationship and underlined the subjectivity and participation of both the professional and the patient in the doctor-patient encounter. The Balint movement and within this framework, the work of Browne and Freeling, joined others that led to promoting the integration of the psychological and the social environment in the definition of the disease and in the practice of medicine at that time. The article also focusses the contrasts between the proposals of Michael Balint and those raised by the American Psychosomatic Society, and other psychoanalytic movements, regarding the doctor-patient relationship.Se analiza la perspectiva emocional de la relación médico-paciente y la confianza propia de esta interrelación, a través de publicaciones y relatos médicos de Michael Balint, Kevin Browne y Paul Freeling, aparecidos en la década de 1960. Balint promovió en la clínica Tavistock (Londres) los llamados ‘Grupos Balint’ en los que participaron Browne y Freeling. Sus publicaciones se enmarcan en la aproximación psicoanalítica y psicosomática, enfoque que actualizó la consideración de la persona como un todo y mostró el significado de las emociones en la enfermedad. Balint, Browne y Freeling destacaron el carácter terapéutico de la relación médico-paciente y subrayaron la subjetividad y la participación tanto del profesional como del paciente, en el encuentro médico-paciente. El movimiento Balint y en ese marco, la obra de Browne y Freeling, se sumó a otras que llevaron a promover la integración de lo psicológico y el entorno social en la definición de la enfermedad y en la práctica de la medicina de ese tiempo. El artículo pone de manifiesto los contrastes entre las propuestas de Michael Balint y las planteadas por la Escuela Psicosomática norteamericana y otros movimientos de origen psicoanalítico, respecto a la psicogenia y a la relación médico-paciente
Letter to Michael Balint
No full textIn this letter to Michael Balint, Winnicott apologises for not finishing his review of Balint’s recent book The Doctor, His Patients and the Illness and hopes to talk more with him soon. He expresses his disturbance at the complete absence of B group analysts at the scientific meeting of the BPAS and says that tensions have arisen in the Society since the Paris congress.</p
Building a Literature Review: A Citation Analysis of Medical Educator’s Research Patterns in Balint Group Studies
No full textPoster presented at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, May 18, 2014, Chicago, IL.OBJECTIVE: This study analyzes how medical educators search literature, using as an example Balint Groups. Balint Group theory is rooted in psychiatry/psychoanalysis. Drawing from literature on medical educator’s search skills, the authors hypothesize that they have not used a systematic approach in their pre-intervention reviews. Instead, it is expected that researchers use literature conveniently found and readily available. Using a citation analysis, this hypothesis will be explored. METHODS: Balint Groups began in England in 1950s as a means of teaching students and residents “patient-centered” communication skills. In the U.S., it was first adopted in Family Medicine, then later in different specialties. Due to its international and cross-discipline scope, it is hypothesized that searching for existing literature on Balint Groups can pose a challenge to medical educators. In this study, an exhaustive literature review on Balint Groups will be conducted using the MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, EMBASE and ERIC databases. 334 citations were retrieved. A validated inclusion criteria (Robinson et. al., 2011) will be used to select papers from this cohort of results. The authors will then create a comprehensive list of citations used by the selected papers. The analysis will focus on identifying and examining citation patterns to explore factors such as origin of publication and level of evidence of the most highly cited references. RESULTS: In selecting citations, the authors excluded articles that were a) older than 2003, b) bibliographies only, c) opinion-based letters to the editor (with no citations), and d) meeting abstracts. 112 papers were selected. Citations from these papers were reviewed and Balint-specific citations were selected. The resulting list contained 314 citations, 283 from journal literature and 31 from books. References to primary Balint literature (e.g., books originally published by Michael & Enid Balint who defined Balint Group process) equaled just under 25% of the total citations. The top ten cited journal articles equaled 30% of the total citations. Of these top ten, five were published in the 2000’s, three in the 1990’s and two in the 1980’s. Psychiatry, primary care and doctor-patient relationships where the areas most widely studied using Balint Group practice. CONCLUSIONS: The authors conclude that the hypothesis is correct. Of the 334 total citations retrieved in the initial search, the cited output equals approximately 30% of the available research on Balint Groups. Of this, only 6% is from the top primary resources (Balint-authored books) and top ten cited papers
Accurate defect levels obtained from the HSE06 range-separated hybrid functional
No full textDefect levels are a problem for standard implementations of density-functional theory and the error also influences the energetics. We demonstrate that the HSE06 functional, which describes the electronic structure of all group-IV semiconductors well (including Ge), gives highly accurate charge transition levels, too, if the defect wave function is host related-independent of localization. The degree of fulfilling the generalized Koopmans theorem shows the reliability of the results and the highest-occupied eigenvalue always seems to give the correct vertical ionization energy.Original Publication:Peter Deak, Balint Aradi, Thomas Frauenheim, Erik Janzén and Adam Gali, Accurate defect levels obtained from the HSE06 range-separated hybrid functional, 2010, PHYSICAL REVIEW B, (81), 15, 153203.http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.81.153203Copyright: American Physical Societyhttp://www.aps.org
Pragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology
No full textTo unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe
Dr. Edwin Wright Collection: Author Unknown
No full textNotes - The author relates several short stories about his neighbours including Alex McDonell, homesteading and life around Meanook and Athabasca (1 page
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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