For your review, I have collected the classic excuses from schools of nursing, social work, community colleges training counselors of various kinds, chairs of psychology departments and others. These are stones in the status quo wall of resistance. “Yes it’s important, but, sorry, the curricu...
A good strategy for helping to narrow down the colleges you are considering is to think about what your interests are. Think about what you like to do inyour spare time,and think about what your favorite activities and pastimes are. If your favorite activities and pastimes involve sports, wat...
Exactly, exactly. Everyone comes at it from a different perspective. We have researchers who are screeners for us. We have acquisitions, clinicians, obviously, admin/admissions professionals, and then we have the full discussion with the entire committee, including medical students. We have 20 med...
Learning how to make good judgement calls and decisions Referrals to other specialists – i.e. psychiatrists, social workers, and/or physicians, if needed Ceremonial preparations for couples who plan to get married and funeral services for families who have lost a loved one ...
Jobs that are shift work tend to have a better work-life balance in the traditional sense, she says. “You could doradiologysitting in your house, in your pajamas, so it kind of depends how much patient interaction they want and whether that's super important to them.” ...
However, larger studies including White et al. [33] and Rees et al. [36] supported the finding that confidentiality was a barrier to seeking help across specialties. White et al. [33] found confidentiality to be the most prevalent cause for psychiatrists not seeking help (66.2%) and emphasi...
There are a small number of colleges who offer actual pre-med majors, but those programs tend to not be very strong (no major university offers an actual major called "pre-med"), and med schools aren't particularly impressed by these degrees since, as mentioned above,any major can be pre...
Stop calling psychiatry a “branch” of medicine. Psychiatrists numb pain. That’s all. They do NOT get to the root cause of problems – physical, emotional, spiritual… You numb pain. Drug dealers. That’s what you do. That’s who you are. Duane...
23. For decades the wrong people have gone to law school.24. Lawyers are less well educated, less well rounded and less culturally literate every decade.25. Narcissists get stuff done. 26. There are at about 40 exceptional American colleges and universities....
To combat this, colleges need to know — are their students getting enough sleep? Eating healthy? Exercising? Access to wellbeing resources like nutritionists, a gym, and mental health professionals like psychiatrists can be woven into student retention plans to support students throughout their hig...