Posted by Adam on July 8, 2000, at 21:23:00
In reply to Re: Possible 2nd board, posted by Dr. Bob on July 8, 2000, at 16:29:00
P.S.
Do you use grad. students to help you? It's hardly an original concept, but I do think to myself that the Internet might become THE place to gather information, both for patients and health care providers, and that publically available databases will eventually completely supplant various references like the DSM and PDR (the latter, I know, can be viewed on the 'net, but what is available publically is no better than what you can get from lots of other sources, and to access the more extensive, albiet crusty, reference info. that I assume is a mirror of what one finds in the bound volume, you gotta pony up some cash and credentials). I envision a big, dynamic, constantly revised, well organized clearinghouse of useful info. about any particular drug, for instance (say the usual plus current info. in the literature about off-label uses, the most recent pharmacodynamics, robust list of potential drug-drug interactions that would automatically pull up relevant information as new, incriminating evidence became available), that could be broken down by specialty, indication, etc.
Not to say that Dr. Bob's should be the place for such services (unless you want them to be!), but I wonder if "in silico" psychology and psychiatry are not very much in our immediate future, and if the skills to not only adeptly navigate this extension of the fields but also contribute to it, might not be in VERY high demand. Hence, psychoinformatics becomes a specialty unto itself, practiced by those schooled not only in psychotherapy and/or psychopharmacology, but in also in managing and using databases, or maybe even web page design, linux and JAVA.
What I'm getting at is: This page might be quite a training ground, a great resouce for independant projects for those so-inclined to contribute to such endeavors, with an eye toward the future and what skills might be in demand.
Running this place has got to be a ton of work. Bringing out its full potential would be an enormous time sink for one person, I'm sure. Could turning a few smart and savvy grad. students onto the task every year full-time (meaning as a project or independant study) be a win-win situation for everyone? Are there even provisions in the educational structure of graduate and medical study for such endeavors?
> > > How long would you have to have been here to be on the oldie's board? What if you used to post a lot, but haven't been posting much lately?
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> I don't know, I haven't thought about the specifics...
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> > > What if I got picked for the board that I didn't want to use?
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> Then you could just not use it! :-)
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> > > What if there are certain people I would like to be on the same board with?
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> Um, well, maybe start your own eGroup?
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> > I like to be able to skim through & check people who I like to keep track of & don't think I'd have time if there were 2 boards.
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> But wouldn't too many posts be too many posts, no matter how many boards they were divided up among?
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> Bob
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