Mark your calendar: the inaugural Forensic Journal Club is coming up 12 February. Find all the information you need to participate here.
Several of you have asked me about specific questions to consider for journal club. I think there are are lot of directions you can take in a journal club, but as I looked at the resources in my own library, here are some basic ones I like (adapted from a guide from the nice folks at McMaster University School of Public Health in Canada):
Mark your calendar: the inaugural Forensic Journal Club is coming up 12 February. Find all the information you need to participate here.
The VA Women’s Health Research Consortium (PDF) has an awesome webinar coming up next week: Clinical Utility of an Intimate Partner Violence Screening Tool for Female VA Patients. The session will be held on February 12th from 3-4 pm ET and is free of charge. You do know my happy place is the intersection of research and practice, so if I’m able I will be attending.
Mark your calendar: the inaugural Forensic Journal Club is coming up 12 February. Find all the information you need to participate here.
I’m so excited to announce that the toolkit for evaluating SANE programs’ work in the criminal justice system (PDF) is now available. Many of you heard Dr. Campbell and colleagues speak about this in Puerto Rico last fall. I know I have been eagerly awaiting its release for quite some time. I feel confident this will be a useful tool for many of you (full disclosure: I was a consultant on this project).
Mark your calendar: the inaugural Forensic Journal Club is coming up 12 February. Find all the information you need to participate here.
Clearly, I needed the weekend to recover, which is exactly what I did. Surrounded myself with loved ones (and my pup) and played down in Charlottesville with good friends. I held a few new babies, drank several glasses of good red, and ate enough for a couple people– all in all, it did a world of good. And while I was at it, I had a chance to do a little reading. Later in the week I will be bringing you a new clinical guide. But in the meantime, here’s what’s caught my attention since last we spoke:
Mark your calendar: the inaugural Forensic Journal Club is coming up 12 February. Find all the information you need to participate here.
I am mired in bureaucracy today. The kind of head-shaking, migraine-inducing, make-you-feel-kind-of-stabby bureaucracy that causes me to wonder, how is it possible that we as a people are able to get anything done? I ran across this quote, which I thought rather apt: “Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.” True that. Clearly at the point where I am hollering at my dog about the small-minded incompetence of certain state government offices, while simultaneously shoveling stale chocolate chips in my mouth (the only chocolate I could find in the whole damned house)–clearly now is a good time to close up shop for the weekend. Before I go, though, please do check out the newest offerings on the Canada page. Some good stuff there (thank you, Sheila!).
Have a great weekend, everyone.
Mark your calendar: the inaugural Forensic Journal Club is coming up 12 February. Find all the information you need to participate here.
As we get closer to our kickoff Twitter Journal Club (#ForensicJC), allow me to provide a 10 Things list of why you should participate:
Mark your calendar: the inaugural Forensic Journal Club is coming up 12 February. Find all the information you need to participate here.
Jewish Women International‘s National Alliance to Prevent Domestic Violence is hosting a webinar February 14th from 12-1:30 pm ET–Let’s Talk About Sex: Adolescents and Sexual Violence. Looks like the cost of the webinar (for non-members) is $25. CEs are available for social workers only.
Mark your calendar: the inaugural Forensic Journal Club is coming up 12 February. Find all the information you need to participate here.
FORGE is offering a webinar on February 14th: Creating a Trans-Welcoming Environment. It will be held from 2-3:30pm CST. This is a great one to attend–it will provide concrete action steps to make sure your programs are accessible and inclusive. Make sure to also check out their new safety guide for transgender and gender non-conforming individuals who are experiencing IPV (PDF), which should be a part of every program’s resource cache.
Mark your calendar: the inaugural Forensic Journal Club is coming up 12 February. Find all the information you need to participate here.
An FHO reader sent me a message this week asking when I was going to resume posting the lists of what I’ve been reading over the weekend. I hadn’t realized until receiving that email that I had actually stopped. So in between flying home from a week working in Colorado Springs on Saturday and (maybe) flying south for a trial beginning tomorrow, here’s what I’ve been reading since last we spoke:
Medscape has an interesting article looking at the ethical and legal challenges in disaster medicine. No CEs attached to it, unfortunately, but it does make some fascinating points. It’s not a terribly long piece, so if part of your responsibilities include response to or preparation for disasters, it’s worth a look.
In order to participate in Journal Club you will need to get acquainted with Twitter. If you have never used Twitter I encourage you to check out Twitter 101: How Should I Get Started Using Twitter. Once you feel comfortable with the basics (and hey, I’m happy to be your guinea pig–just use @ForensicHealth in your test message and I will be sure to see it), it’s time to start familiarizing yourself with some basics for participating in Twitter Journal Club.
Great to see that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has published a Committee Opinion on screening for reproductive and sexual coercion (PDF). Worth your time to read through it.
Apologies for the last minute post, but it includes free CMEs/CEUs AND it’s an important topic, so I figured you all might forgive me. The National Health Collaborative on Violence and Abuse is hosting a free webinar January 25th from 1:30-3pm ET, Trauma Informed Care: The Role of the Health Care Provider.
Last week I announced the 1st forensic journal club on Twitter. One thing I meant to mention is that you don’t have to be a clinician to join us–in fact sometimes it can be useful to have a nonclinical set of eyes on the research, giving a very different perspective on its strengths and weaknesses. So for our (many) non-clinical readers, please consider participating February 12th (3pm ET). Today I wanted to provide a couple resources for participating in journal club. The 1st is a tool that may be helpful in thinking about this month’s article.
An excellent training bulletin by EVAW: for anyone who ever has questions about calling victim advocates and HIPAA protections, here are your answers (PDF). And in case you missed it, you can find Joanne Archambault and Kim Lonsway, along with David Lisak, on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, which aired yesterday (you can listen to the podcast or read the transcript here).
February 7th from 12-1pm CT there is a child abuse and neglect webinar being offered: Child Maltreatment 2011–Key Findings and Expanded Discussion. From the announcement: The Child Maltreatment report series presents national data about child abuse and neglect known to child protective services agencies in the United States. [more after the jump]
If you’ve been reading this site for awhile you know that I have been obsessed with trying to get a Journal Club started. I have racked my brain for ways to do this (considering FHO readers are spread so far and wide). I realized we could make use of social media as one possibility, and did a search to see if anyone else was using platforms like Twitter for just such an effort. Turns out a few intrepid souls have done exactly this, with excellent success. So I am pleased to announce the inaugural Forensic Healthcare Journal Club via Twitter, Tuesday February 12th from 3-4pm Eastern.
The article with which we will kick off the journal club is from the current issue of the Journal of Forensic Nursing: Caring for the Forensic Population: Recognizing the Educational Needs of Emergency Department Nurses and Physicians (link leads to PubMed abstract only). Please let me know if you have trouble accessing the article and I will be happy to review options with you.
In the coming days I will be rolling out how the journal club will work, including guidelines, suggested conversation points, Twitter pointers and logistics for being able to follow the conversation. I am hoping to also archive the conversation and provide the overview on a separate page on this site for those unable to join us live.
Interested?
I am a bit late on getting an Articles of Note post up, but hopefully what I lack in timeliness I make up for in volume. There’s some really interesting research to be found in the current journals, so I encourage you to peruse the list and see what looks relevant to your practice. Not too many free full-text articles, sadly, so hopefully you can access the articles via your local medical library or hospital. What follows after the jump is the embedded Scribd doc for printing; the list with live links is after that. As always, contact me if you want all of this in a word doc.
This is Part II of a series I mentioned last month; even if you didn’t attend Part I, the content looks like it should stand on its own. Futures Without Violence is hosting a webinar, Strengthening Healthcare-Based Domestic Violence Programs through Evaluation on January 31st, 12-1:30pm ET. Registration is free.
I am back from my honeymoon and trying desperately to catch up. There is so much to cover this week, but I’m afraid I’ll have to ease into some of the chewier content as we move through the week. For now, please check out this really thoughtful piece by David Lee at PreventConnect, Responding to the Gang Rape in India: 5 Lessons About Preventing Sexual Violence. It’s worth your time.