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"CeaseFire is a unique, interdisciplinary, public health approach to violence prevention. We maintain that violence is a learned behavior that can be prevented using disease control methods. Using proven public health techniques, the model prevents violence through a three-prong approach: Identification & detection Interruption, Intervention, & risk reduction Changing behavior and norms"

One of the greatests aspects of broadband Internet is that you can use it from just about anywhere to get a college degree online. If you are interested in getting a bachelor's or master's degree in public health, there are many online schools and other aspects that you should consider.

Training and education programmes which deal with the topic of corruption and health can help change the way people approach their jobs as public administrators or development agency workers, and increase transparency and accountability. This U4 Brief summarises experiences and approaches to educating new and experienced public health professionals and donor agency practitioners about how to analyse problems of corruption in the health sector and design strategies to address them.

Our 100 Awesome Deans of Public Health is a fun list our editors put together as an excuse to truly highlight these individuals responsible for developing our global leaders of tomorrow. If we could list every Dean #1 we would.

"You need to learn how to exercise mindful deployment of your attention online if you are going to become a critical consumer of digital media; productive use of Twitter or YouTube requires knowledge of who your public is, how your participation meets their needs (and what you get in return), and how memes flow through networked publics. Ultimately, the most important fluency is not in mastering a particular literacy but in being able to put all five of these literacies together into a way of being in digital culture."

"MedEdPORTAL Publications and Georgia Regents University have partnered to bring you the Directory and Repository of Educational Assessment Measures (DREAM). DREAM's mission is to achieve excellence in health sciences education by providing easy-to-locate, publically accessible information about assessment instruments to health science educators, educational researchers, and program/curriculum evaluators."

The eHealth International Journal provides a peer-reviewed vehicle for timely publication of scientific research on the application of information technology in medicine, medical care delivery, and public health.

The Journal of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (JIAMSE) is the redesigned, peer-reviewed publication of the International Association of Medical Science Educators. The purpose of this electronic publication is to present scholarly activities, opinions, and resources in medical science education.

"To tweet or not to tweet: Exploring the role of social media in public health: Part II"

"As we develop written materials for the general public, we need to think about vocabulary and sentence structure, organization of ideas, as well as layout and design elements so that we can eliminate as many unnecessary barriers as possible."

The Internet increasingly serves as a platform for the delivery of public health interventions. The efficacy of Internet interventions has been demonstrated across a wide range of conditions. Much more work remains, however, to enhance the potential for broad population dissemination of Internet interventions. In this article, we examine the effectiveness of Internet interventions, with particular attention to their dissemination potential. We discuss several considerations (characterizing reach rates, minimizing attrition, promoting Web site utilization, use of tailored messaging and social networking) that may improve the implementation of Internet interventions and their associated outcomes. We review factors that may influence the adoption of Internet interventions in a range of potential dissemination settings. Finally, we present several recommendations for future research that highlight the potential importance of better understanding intervention reach, developing consensus regarding Web site usage metrics, and more broadly integrating Web 2.0 functionality.

"COMFORT is an acronym that stands for the basic principles of palliative care communication and comprises seven modules (Communication, Orientation/Opportunity, Mindfulness, Family, Openings, Relating, Team). These communication skills training modules are designed to highlight interprofessional care and communication. Each module of the COMFORT curriculum can stand alone as a teaching activity or can be integrated into a new or existing course. Modules C (narrative clinical communication) and F (family caregivers) provide beginner level instruction, while M (mindfulness), O/O (orientation), and T (team) provide intermediate instruction and O (openings) and R (relating) provide advanced communication skills and are intended for learners who have clinical observation experience."

" Curēus promotes medical research by offering tools that better serve and highlight the people who create it, resulting in better research, faster publication and easier access for everyone. "

" Among malpractice claims, diagnostic errors appear to be the most common, most costly and most dangerous of medical mistakes. We found roughly equal numbers of lethal and non-lethal errors in our analysis, suggesting that the public health burden of diagnostic errors could be twice that previously estimated. Healthcare stakeholders should consider diagnostic safety a critical health policy issue. "

"To describe the essential components of the medical model of substance use disorders. To delineate the interviewing skills necessary to screen effectively for substance use and abuse. To understand the high rate of psychiatric and medical co-morbidity and more effectively screen patients for these disorders. To demonstrate skills for evaluating patients' stage of change, readiness to accept the diagnosis, and readiness to undertake behavior change. To clearly and supportively recommend treatment to patients with substance use disorders. To describe the skills required for addiction prevention counseling. To define the skills that help set respectful limits on patient requests for prescription medication. To demonstrate awareness of how physician/clinician attitudes toward patients with substance use disorders impact recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of patients. To demonstrate knowledge of substance use disorder treatment standards and the ability to recommend appropriate referrals."

"The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Simulation Collection is compiled by the SAEM Simulation Interest Group, working with the SAEM Simulation Task Force. Cases can be posted for sharing and feedback only, or for peer-review and publication. "

A Doctor-Professor answers the old question "What is the single best thing we can do for our health" in a completely new way. Dr. Mike Evans is founder of the Health Design Lab at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a staff physician at St. Michael's

"Conclusion: A few areas of debriefing practice where obvious gaps that deserve study were identified, such as comparing debriefing techniques, comparing trained versus untrained debriefers, and comparing the effect of different debriefing venues and times. A model for publication of research data was developed and presented which should help researchers clarify methodology in future work."

"his resource is designed to help develop residents and fellows as teachers of medical students. The content addresses an aspect of teaching that many housestaff find challenging - that of providing effective formative feedback to medical students on clinical rotations."