For those of you looking for more information on human trafficking and sexual exploitation, a few items of note:
OJJDP is hosting a webinar on August 22nd: Promising Practices in Combating the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Girls in Gangs. The session will be held from 2-3pm ET.
OVC has a web forum (on the same day and time as the one above): Implementing the Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force Model. Remember that this is a real-time Q&A session, but it is archived, so you can participate in both if you like.
One other thing: TED has quite a few talks on trafficking and sexual exploitation, by some fascinating speakers. If video is your preferred method for education, this is a good place to look for diverse coverage on this subject.
Harvard Medical School has an online CME course available: Mental Health Sequelae of Extreme Violence. Physicians will earn 2 AMA PRA Category 1 CMEs, but others can earn a certificate of participation. See the website for complete details.
(BTW, there’s also one on the ABCs of Disaster Medicine— a bit more $, but it looks like a great course.)
The Sexual Violence Justice Institute is hosting a webinar on Auguts 27th from 12-1:30 CDT: Multidisciplinary Strategies for Forensic Compliance. The session is limited to 200 so if you’re interested, register ASAP.
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Building Blocks of Prevention
There’s still a lot of confusion about how forensic healthcare professionals can get involved in prevention efforts (we wrote this back in 2006, but I think it’s still relevant). PreventConnect has a new elearning site that includes an introductory session called Building Blocks of Prevention. By the looks of the course outline, this would be a great way to become better acquainted with prevention and help you identify just how prevention fits into your own professional outlook.
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Since Last We Spoke 8-13-12
First off, please let me just say thank you to everyone who commented, emailed and sent cards in response to the news about my mother. The sheer volume of communications I received makes it impossible to thank each one of you individually, so please accept this more expedient (but no less grateful) thanks and know that I am truly moved at how many readers reached out to me.
I’ve been away for what feels like an eternity, so there’s a lot to talk about since last we spoke (including a free full-text journal supplement on youth violence):
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Update to CDC’s STI Guidelines
This felt too critical to wait on: please make sure you review the CDC’s new update to the STI Treatment Guidelines of 2010, specifically on the treatment of gonorrhea. The long and the short of it? Due to resistance issues, we can all stop prescribing/providing oral cephalosporins. It’s back to ceftriaxone IM (if you hadn’t already gone there).
Read the full article here.
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FHO Will be Dark This Week
As some of you know, my mother died on Friday. FHO will be dark this week (as will my Twitter stream) so that I am able to spend a little extra time with my people. For those of you who have talked with me about lit reviews and other materials, thanks for your patience. I’ll be back in full swing next week.
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Conflict as Thinking (Updated)
In my twitter feed today, I found this quote by Margaret Heffernan, speaking at TEDxGlobal: “Collaboration requires thinking partners that aren’t echo chambers”. Brilliant. I love this notion; it speaks to something I believe wholeheartedly (and discuss with groups all the time): the importance of conflict in healthy, sustainable teams.
At last year’s IAFN Scientific Assembly there was one clear standout, as far as sessions went. So I am thrilled that that same session is now being offered as the next webinar in the IAFN 2012 Webinar Series. Hollye Gallion will be presenting Virginity: Myths, Mystery, Madness on August 9th at 2pm ET. It’s $15 for members ($30 for non-members) and nets you 1 CEU.
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Use of FHO Original Material
Today while searching for something online, I discovered material of mine that had been passed off as someone else’s. It came from one of my older clinical guides, and I have addressed it with the individual in question. However, it makes me sad that I even have to say this: you are welcome to use anything of mine on the site, but only with appropriate attribution. If you look on the Clinical Guides page (location of most of the material requested by readers) or at the bottom of every individual post, you’ll find this:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. (This means you can copy my work as you please and send it to everyone you know, but you can’t alter it, make money off of it, or claim it as your own.)
Anyone who knows me knows that I will share everything I have. All I ask is that you attribute the material appropriately. I don’t get paid for this site; I have amassed this body of work as a service to the profession and the patients we serve. You are welcome to use anything I create for trainings, newsletters, etc., but please make mention of FHO and add a link to the site. That way I can continue to provide word docs that are alterable and I don’t have to © everything on the site.
Passing off someone else’s work as your own is a dick move. Just don’t do it.
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Sexual Violence in Disasters
The National Sexual Violence Resource Center has a new eLearning course available: Sexual Violence in Disasters. As with their other eLearning offerings, these are available at no cost, and can be completed on the user’s timeframe, so it’s a great source for continuing education.
First off, apologies for my absence yesterday. Migraines have been getting the best of me on and off for the past week, and yesterday I finally just surrendered. But I’m back today, and because I’m a giant nerd, there’s a new clinical guide for you on evaluating research. For anyone who’s ever heard me speak on the issue of providing ethical and effective court testimony, one of the main topics of discussion is always about being able to support your opinions with credible scientific information. That, of course, leads into a discussion of how you actually do that. Fortunately, many smart people have addressed this topic. Click through for a listing of full-text articles and web resources divided into 4 sections: general information, internet sources, healthcare research and violence research:
Please contact me if you’d like the word doc of this clinical guide:
EVALUATING RESEARCH
General:
NEW: How can you tell if scientific evidence is strong or weak? (vox.com)
NEW: Predatory Publishing (FHO)
Evaluating Research Quality [PDF] (T. Litman, Victoria Transport Policy Institute)
Evaluating Introductions and Literature Reviews [PDF](F. Pyrczak, via Indiana University)
Interpreting Research Studies [PDF] (Guttmacher Institute)
Who’s Afraid of Peer Review? (J. Bohannon, Science)
How to Read a Research Article [PDF] (R. Dunafon via Cornell University)
A Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science (A brilliant infographic from Compound Interest)
Internet Sources:
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet: Distinguishing Propaganda and Misinformation (Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries)
Evaluating Internet Research Sources (R. Harris)
Healthcare Research:
A Simple Method for Evaluating the Clinical Literature (R. Flaherty, Family Practice Management)
Checklist for the qualitative evaluation of clinical studies with particular focus on external validity and model validity [PDF](G. Bornh, BMC Medical Research Methodology)
Critique Process [PDF](C. Boswell & S. Cannon, via Jones and Bartlett Publishers)
Evaluating the Literature (T. Gaeta, Medscape)
Finding the research for evidence-based practice – Part two: Selecting credible evidence (J. Fitzpatrick, Nursing Times)
User’s Guide to the Nursing Research: An Introduction (N. Cullum, Evidence Based Nursing)
Glossary of Evidence-Based Medicine Terms (Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine)
Violence Research:
Evaluating Violence Against Women Research Reports (S. Beeman, VAWnet)
Reading, Understanding and Evaluating Research: Glossary of Research Terms [PDF] (NSVRC)
Understanding Evidence: Pt. I Best Available Research Evidence (CDC)
{See also: Guide to Literature Searches and our previous post on understanding and evaluating the literature}
In keeping with yesterday’s post, I was happy to discover that VAWnet announced its newest special collection today (what timing!), Men and Boys: Preventing Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence. And for those of you who feel like, as healthcare providers this is interesting, but not relevant to the work we do in caring for patients, I ask you to at least spend some time with this section of the collection:
Tony Porter is a co-founder of A Call to Men. I’ve had the pleasure of hearing him speak before, and TEDxWomen has hosted him in the past. Along with the video they have a conversation with him posted on their site. Click through to watch the presentation.
I have a guest post today over at the EVAW International blog on keeping SANE/SAFE programs healthy. I hope you’ll go check it out!
It was a pretty difficult news weekend; I tried to force myself to read more than just coverage of the Aurora shootings. As it turns out, there were some pretty insightful pieces written on Aurora, mainly on the need for gun control. I’ve included the best of what I read, along with a few other interesting articles and blog posts since last we spoke (and if nothing else, please read the last piece to which I linked–it’s pure happiness):
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#Aurora
I’m profoundly sad about the news out of Aurora today. Denver was my home for 6 years while I was in graduate school and I still have many friends there. This is the 2nd mass shooting in the area since I left. Please let it be the last. And please let us be able to come together to have meaningful conversations about how to prevent these types of senseless tragedies.
My prayers are with the victims, their families and loved ones.
NSVRC has a new, free online course, Understanding National Rape Statistics. From the site: This 30 minute interactive course is adapted from the Applied Research Paper, Understanding National Rape Statistics (PDF) by Dean Kilpatrick and Jenna McCauley. Participants will understand how and why rape statistics are generated for national studies; critically evaluate the information provided by national studies on sexual violence; and apply statistics in their work.
My geek heart loves this…
The US Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health is offering a webinar, Workplace Stress and Trauma Informed Care. The session will take place July 30th at 2pm CT. Dr. Sandra Bloom will be the featured speaker. It’s part of the ongoing series, The Impact of Trauma on Women and Girls Across the Lifespan. Previous archived sessions can be found here (scroll down).
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The Social MEDia Course
So how cool is this? Yesterday, during a break between presentations, I was talking with a group of participants (one of whom was live tweeting my sessions) about my hope to see more nurses embrace Twitter and other types of social media for professional use. Many of my advocate colleagues do a fantastic job using social media for information dissemination, publicizing events, etc., and I would love for clinicians, especially nurses, to do the same.