MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'expertise'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:28:30 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4829090&cid=t_105292_122_f&fid=37835&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iqscorner.com%2F2011%2F05%2Fpsychology-of-wisdom-latest-annual.html Love the Annual Review of Psychology for contemporary overview articles. 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The sounding-board piece considers the recent decision of the American Board of Internal Medicine to issue certificates in two new fields: (1) hospice and palliative care and (2) advanced heart failure and plans in-the-works for official credentialing in other, relatively narrow fields like addiction and obesity. The essay caught my attention because I do think it’s true that we need more well-trained specialists, as much as we need capable general physicians. Ultimately both are essential for delivery of high-quality care, and both are essential for reducing health care errors and costs... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4696621 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:00:21 +0100 4696621 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4600580&cid=t_105292_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2011%2F03%2F16%2Ftips-to-find-a-good-enough-doctor-2%2F Inspired from all the comments she received from my interview with her on chronic illness, Dr. Elvira Aletta compiled some suggestions for finding a good-enough doctor. In her previous Psych Central post called Tips to Find a Good-Enough Doctor, she throws out three basic qualities she looks for in a doctor: Expertise, knowledge, intellectual curiosity and all the right credentials. Warm, receptive, a good listener and communicator. The bedside manner thing. A well-run office, with smart, efficient support & medical staff. Then she follows up with a few more points to keep in mind while shopping for a doctor… Here are a few more of Dr. Elvira Aletta’s tips to find a good-enough doctor: If you are in doubt, interview several doctors as if they were applying for a job an... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4600580 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:23:01 +0100 4600580 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3890501&cid=t_105292_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F08%2F21%2Fethical-best-practice-in-an-evidence-based-age%2F There were 2 presentations at this year’s annual American Psychological Association convention, which were important to psychotherapists in particular. With the ever-growing challenge to prove efficacy of each and every treatment, healthcare providers and consumers alike face some confusion as to how much information is enough, or too much. Does every therapists need to give a long presentation about the relative proven efficacy of low-dose medication combined with verbal therapy — and 2 hours gardening per week? (I made up the last part, but hiking and fresh air were a popular cure for quite a long time in 19th Century Europe.) Physicians are acutely aware of the need to know the research, and most ethical codes demand informed consent. Both health and mental health professionals ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3890501 Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:20:35 +0100 3890501 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3784258&cid=t_105292_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fwhat-doctors-and-patients-can-learn-from-apple-and-steve-jobs%2F2010.07.23 First, I am a big admirer of Apple CEO Steve Jobs for his thoughtful 2005 Stanford commencement speech, his clarity of vision, and his superb skills as a leader. Fortune magazine named him CEO of the decade after turning around the company he founded from near bankruptcy in the late 1990s to becoming the most valued company today. Though I have great respect for him, I haven’t bought an Apple product, ever, until this year. So I watched with great interest his press conference regarding Antennagate which has consumed technology news with regards to the design of the new iPhone 4 and its new antenna design. Apparently this makes the smartphone vulnerable to dropping phone calls when held a certain way, known as the death grip. If one simply avoided holding the phone that one explicit ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3784258 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:00:00 +0100 3784258 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3710560&cid=t_105292_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Funiversity-hospitals-and-the-3-for-1-doctor-swap%2F2010.06.29 As doctors increasingly become physician-employees, there’s no longer a need to share resources with university specialists: Three University of Virginia cardiologists have been told by the Augusta Health board they will lose their hospital privileges next week, impacting the 2,500 patients the doctors serve. Augusta Health officials [Crow] told the doctors in a letter that they won’t be able to treat their patients in emergencies or otherwise at the hospital in Fishersville. Crow’s statement said the board is limiting cardiology department participation to doctors “under contract to Augusta Health.” Augusta Health has four cardiologists on staff, and will soon have a fifth, he said. Limiting cardiology participation to the hospital’s own doctors will allow Augusta Health �... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3710560 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:00:00 +0100 3710560 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3533842&cid=t_105292_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fhow-to-choose-a-great-doctor%2F2010.05.04 As a practicing family doctor, it’s easy for me to figure out how to choose a great doctor. Let me tell you the secrets in finding the best one for you and what I tell my family and friends. Look for the following: – Board certification – Report card on quality – Licensing/public reporting As a doctor, I know many doctors who have great bedside manner but aren’t particularly reliable in giving the right medical care you deserve, and these traits separate the so-so doctors from the truly excellent ones. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at Saving Money and Surviving the Healthcare Crisis* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3533842 Tue, 04 May 2010 16:00:00 +0100 3533842 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3178814&cid=t_105292_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F01%2F15%2Freport-on-fort-hood-hasan%2F The AP reported this morning that the Army report to be released today will implicate Army Maj. Nidal Hasan’s supervisors and those who knew of his troubled behavior, but failed to detail it in his records or further followup on it. Hasan’s disturbing behaviors were detailed as far back as during his medical residency and were apparently known to anyone who worked closely with him in a supervisory capacity. And when they became aware of his behavior, did they detail it and pass it along to Hasan’s future bosses? Apparently not: Hasan got passing grades and a promotion in part because disturbing information about his behavior and performance was not recorded by superiors or properly passed to others who might have stepped in, the report found. As Hasan’s training p... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3178814 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:45:54 +0100 3178814 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3017135&cid=t_105292_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F5D1MlLaN9tw%2F (Editor’s Note: as part of our Author Speaks Series, you can enjoy below a stimulating excerpt from the new book The Brain Advantage: Become a More Effective Business Leader Using the Latest Brain Research). Brain-imaging techniques allow researchers to witness the brain’s activity reflected in a rainbow of colors on a computer screen. When brain cells are highly active—working harder—the result shows up as brighter colors on the computer screen. Brilliant reds and yellows indicate brain areas that are most active. In contrast, the blues and greens on a scan show a quieter, less active brain. What would we expect to find if we examined the brain scans of people with high versus average IQ scores? We might picture the active brain of an Einstein as a hotbed of smoldering colors�... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3017135 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:02:13 +0100 3017135 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2950845&cid=t_105292_122_f&fid=35065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F11%2Flazy-thinkers-and-dysrationalia.html Pop Quiz:Jack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?a. Yesb. Noc. Cannot be determined(No, the polar bears have nothing to do with Jack, Anne, or George).What's your answer? If you answered c. Cannot be determined, you're probably one of the 80% who is a lazy thinker, or a 'cognitive miser' as Keith Stanovich proposes in What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought. Excerpt from the Toronto article below:"... most people have the intelligence if you tell them something like “think logically” or “consider all the possibilities.” But unprompted, they won’t bring their full mental faculties to bear on the problem.And that’s a major source of dysrationalia, Stanovi... Eide Neurolearning Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2950845 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:01:00 +0100 2950845 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2349075&cid=t_105292_122_f&fid=35065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F04%2Flistening-to-experts-inhibits-decision.html From Wired Science, college students given "expert opinions" before making choices in a financial decision-making paradigm, turned off executive function areas when decisions had to be made. The expert in this case was an Emory University economist who advises the Federal Reserve. "But students tended to follow his advice regardless of the situation, especially when it was bad. When thinking for themselves, students showed activity in their anterior cingulate cortex and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex — brain regions associated with making decisions and calculating probabilities. When given advice from Noussair, activity in those regions flat lined."Certainly these days, its easy to point fingers at mistakes made by financial experts, but in Nicholas Kristof's Learning How to Think articl... Eide Neurolearning Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2349075 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:03:00 +0100 2349075 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2259375&cid=t_105292_122_f&fid=37835&url=http%3A%2F%2Fintelligencetesting.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fbroad-knowledge-gkn-factor-explained.html In response to my CHC ability definition post, someone asked the question "If Gkn is domain specific, in what sense can it be a broad factor?"My reading of the literature is that the various stores of domain-specific knowledge may be like narrow abilities with an over-arching broad factor that accounts for the covariance among them being broad Gkn. Ackerman et al have published considerable research demonstrating a broad knowledge factor. In addition, two recent articles in Intelligence present analyses that demonstrate a higher-order broad Gkn (although labeled differently by the the researchers) factor when narrow domain-specific Gkn abilities are present (e.g., knowledge of different domains of current events; technical knowledge, arts knowledge, etc.) --- Two relevant model figures are... Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2259375 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:44:00 +0100 2259375 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1683802&cid=t_105292_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F355707152%2F Should Hamlet be living with us now and reading bestsellers, he might be wondering:  To Blink or not to Blink? To Think or not to Think? We are pleased to present, as part of our ongoing Author Speaks Series, an article by Madeleine Van Hecke, author of Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things. In it, she offers the "on the other hand" to Malcolm Gladwell's Blink argument.      To Think or to Blink? - By Madeleine Van Hecke, PhD Is thoughtful reflection necessarily better than hasty judgments? Not according to Malcolm Gladwell who argued in his best-selling book, Blink, that the decisions people make in a blink are often not only just as accurate, but MORE accurate, than the conclusions they draw after painstaking analysis. So, should we blink, or think? When we make j... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1683802 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:49:47 +0100 1683802 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1500628&cid=t_105292_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F305506140%2F We had the fortune to interview Dr. Brett Steenbarger on Enhancing Trader Performance and The Psychology of Trading as we launched our Neuroscience Interview Series. Below, Expert Contributor Dr. Janice Dorn provides an in-depth brain-based discussion of the topic, concluding that "The brain is the most powerful structure in the known universe and the only trading tool that the trader needs to become an expert." No matter whether you are a Pro or Amateur Trader...this will certainly exercise your brain! (Dr. Dorn is preparing more articles on trading performance and the brain...so stay tuned). This is Your Brain On Trading -- By Dr. Janice Dorn  The opening bell sounds, and sixty million traders enter the greatest arena in the world to do battle with each other. They put their ... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1500628 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 05:18:49 +0100 1500628 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1498075&cid=t_105292_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F305506140%2F We had the fortune to interview Dr. Brett Steenbarger on Enhancing Trader Performance and The Psychology of Trading as we launched our Neuroscience Interview Series. Below, Expert Contributor Dr. Janice Dorn provides an in-depth brain-based discussion of the topic, concluding that "The brain is the most powerful structure in the known universe and the only trading tool that the trader needs to become an expert." No matter whether you are a Pro or Amateur Trader...this will certainly exercise your brain! (Dr. Dorn is preparing more articles on trading performance and the brain...so stay tuned). This is Your Brain On Trading -- By Dr. Janice Dorn  The opening bell sounds, and sixty million traders enter the greatest arena in the world to do battle with each other. They put their ... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1498075 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:45:31 +0100 1498075 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1221297&cid=t_105292_122_f&fid=35065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F02%2Fspatial-motor-expertise-gifted-surgery.html We are back. And there's nothing like witnessing your daughter's successful surgery to be reminded of the importance of spatial and motor expertise. Our surgeons at UCLA did an absolutely phenomenal job and we want to make sure conventional education doesn't snuff out the futures of those spatially-talented young people who will be tomorrow's surgical heroes.The initial procedure was very difficult and had to leverage resources and meticulous attention to detail. The reconstructive surgeon had to use a great deal of ingenuity and spatial / motor experience - how things manipulated, rotated, and used in different ways. Not anything one could simply get from a book.Talking to the residents afterward, we had chance to hear how difficult it was to learn surgical expertise even from a master - ... Eide Neurolearning Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1221297 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:01:00 +0100 1221297 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=506286&cid=t_105292_122_f&fid=35065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fhow-can-educators-learn-from.html An interesting paper from U. of Massachusetts looking at the common ingredients of software developers, with speculation on what that could mean for student education in general: "What is it about experts that makes this problem-solving expertise possible? The primary difference between experts and novices is NOT in basic intellectual processes, such as IQ, memory, or speed of processing. Rather, the distinguishing feature of expertise is that experts have extraordinary action-based knowledge in their field."They conclude that education should:1. Develop procedural skills.2. Develop metacognition.3. Develop declarative knowledge.These ideas are not new, but their discussion of the need for strategic and metacognition provides some useful pearls. Years of experience was not predictive of de... Eide Neurolearning Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=506286 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:03:00 +0100 506286 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=487406&cid=t_105292_122_f&fid=35065&url=http%3A%2F%2Feideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F02%2Fmind-of-masters-intelligence-and.html In a recent study of tournament chess players, scientists found that high intelligence and expertise (ELO ranking) had different contributions to brain activation, although both increased speed and performance on chess-related reasoning tasks. High IQ also seemed to confer an additional advantage...the higher the IQ, the more brain efficient, so EEG event-related desynchronisations suggested they also didn't have to work as hard to get correct answers.Superior performance and neural efficiency: impact of intelligence and expertise pdfTechnorati tags: intelligence, IQ, psychology, brain, science, gifted, education, chess, expertiseEide Neurolearning Blog (Source: Eide Neurolearning Blog) Eide Neurolearning Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=487406 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:07:00 +0100 487406