Symptom Media: Videos of Psychological and Psychiatric Phenomena
San Diego, CA, July 08, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Symptom Media’s launching of over 140 introductory films for psychology, psychiatry, mental health and the behavioral sciences offers dramatic, concise, professionally acted and produced films designed as simplified videos to be used as building blocks for students to learn psychiatric and psychological phenomena. These films are available at www.symptommedia.com for a yearly subscription to higher education departments teaching psychology, psychiatry, mental health and the behavioral sciences as well as hospitals and other continuing education programs.
During the past 30 years, Dr. Donald Fidler, Farnsworth Endowed Chair of Educational Psychiatry, Director of the Teaching Scholars Program, and Adjunct Professor of Theater at West Virginia University developed two types of videos. The first, simplified videos are to be used as building blocks for novice students to learn psychiatric and psychological phenomena. The second, more complex films, present patients as they appear in real life with confusing mixtures of symptoms from many diagnoses, which are more appropriate for advanced students/programs.
Overwhelming evidence points to novice students learning better by simplifying symptoms by providing students with “fractal communication” or “information in a nutshell.”(1) Dr. Christopher Welsh in an article published in Academic Psychiatry concluded through his own study, “more than 90% of the 89 respondents believed that (film) clips helped them recognize (withdrawal) syndromes… (and) all students believed the movie clips would help them remember the syndromes, with greater than 90 % reporting that it would help ‘very much.’”(2).
Symptom Media’s introductory videos have all of the symptoms listed for any diagnosis. The intention is to create hyperbole to develop memorable visual/auditory representations of diagnoses. Just as movie scenes stand out in viewers’ minds, Symptom Media accomplishes this with professional acting performances and characters to accompany a silver platter of symptoms in a concise video clip that students will remember months, years, and decades later.
(1) Geri Fox, M.D, “Teaching Normal Development Using Stimulus Videotapes in Psychiatric Education,” Academic Psychiatry 27 (December 2003): 283.
(2) Christopher Welsh, M.D., “OD’s and DT’s: Using Movies to Teach Intoxication and Withdrawal Syndromes to Medical Students,” Academic Psychiatry 27:3 (Fall 2003): 182.
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During the past 30 years, Dr. Donald Fidler, Farnsworth Endowed Chair of Educational Psychiatry, Director of the Teaching Scholars Program, and Adjunct Professor of Theater at West Virginia University developed two types of videos. The first, simplified videos are to be used as building blocks for novice students to learn psychiatric and psychological phenomena. The second, more complex films, present patients as they appear in real life with confusing mixtures of symptoms from many diagnoses, which are more appropriate for advanced students/programs.
Overwhelming evidence points to novice students learning better by simplifying symptoms by providing students with “fractal communication” or “information in a nutshell.”(1) Dr. Christopher Welsh in an article published in Academic Psychiatry concluded through his own study, “more than 90% of the 89 respondents believed that (film) clips helped them recognize (withdrawal) syndromes… (and) all students believed the movie clips would help them remember the syndromes, with greater than 90 % reporting that it would help ‘very much.’”(2).
Symptom Media’s introductory videos have all of the symptoms listed for any diagnosis. The intention is to create hyperbole to develop memorable visual/auditory representations of diagnoses. Just as movie scenes stand out in viewers’ minds, Symptom Media accomplishes this with professional acting performances and characters to accompany a silver platter of symptoms in a concise video clip that students will remember months, years, and decades later.
(1) Geri Fox, M.D, “Teaching Normal Development Using Stimulus Videotapes in Psychiatric Education,” Academic Psychiatry 27 (December 2003): 283.
(2) Christopher Welsh, M.D., “OD’s and DT’s: Using Movies to Teach Intoxication and Withdrawal Syndromes to Medical Students,” Academic Psychiatry 27:3 (Fall 2003): 182.
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