CFS: J General Internal Medicine

The Journal of General Internal Medicine seeks two types of high quality work for its Healing Arts section: ·        Text and Context consists of excerpts from literature (novels, short stories, poetry, plays or creative non-fiction) of 200-800 words followed by an accompanying essay of up to 1000 words discussing the significance of the work for …

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CFP: Urban Health (Penn Med Humanities Consortium)

Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium, Ninth Annual Meeting, April 15 – 16, 2011 CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline: January 31, 2011 The Ninth Annual Pennsylvania Medical Humanities Consortium meeting will be held at Temple University School of Medicine, 3500 N. Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19130, on Friday evening April 15 through Saturday afternoon, April 16, 2011. To …

CFP: Nursing’s Contribution to Women’s Health (Penn Hospital)

Call for Papers The Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, will host its sixth annual History of Women's Health Conference on Thursday, April 28, 2011. We invite interested persons to send a one to two page proposal or abstract of your topic by Friday, December 10, 2010 for consideration. The History of Women's Health Conference focuses on women's …

No Muses

Some academic writers claim that they can't write until the mood or an inspiration strikes them. Often they don't accomplish much writing as a result. Blame it on The Muse. The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that nine sisters, The Muses, were the source of our inspiration for a variety of forms of writing (and other …

CFS: Stress, Psychoneuroimmunology and Allostasis (Biol Res Nurs)

BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH FOR NURSING: Integrating Biobehavioral Research into Health Care SPECIAL ISSUE: Nursing Research in Stress, Psychoneuroimmunology and Allostasis Guest Editor: Maureen Groer, RN, PhD, FAAN Deadline: December 5, 2011 Investigators are invited to submit manuscripts related to nursing research on stress, immune effects of stress, and allostasis for a special issue of Biological Research …

CFP: Paradigm Shifts, The Nature of Change and the Place of Hope

1st Global Conference, Paradigm Shifts: The Nature of Change and the Place of Hope, Sunday 22nd May – Tuesday 24th May 2010, Warsaw, Poland This is a new inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project about the nature of Change. Papers are invited from theorists and practitioners on how significant change occurs or has occurred in their discipline, …

Nursing History Conference (Berlin)

International Conference on Nursing History in Berlin  Venue: Berlin Historical Museum of Medicine (Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité), Campus Charité Mitte, Charitéplatz 1 (former Schumannstr. 20/21), 10117 Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany Abstract deadline: 24 November 2010 Contact: Dr. Bettina Blessing, bettina.blessing@igm-bosch.de  The conference is organized by the Institute for the History of Medicine of …

NLN-Sponsored Writing Retreats

Scholarly Writing Retreats Indiana University Indianapolis, IN March 11 - 13, 2011 Leader: Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA April 1 - 3, 2011 Leader: Leslie H. Nicoll, PhD, MBA, RN, BC Registration Fee: $850 (includes tuition, meals, and two nights' accommodations at the host site) Program …

Inside Higher Ed: Write Now! (Hoelscher and Werder )

Karen Hoelscher and Carmen Werder in a continuing series in Inside Higher Ed, counsel "Write Now!" They note the tendency inherent in academic work for procrastination from the unstructured parts of our lives (like conducting research and writing scholarly articles). Their advice is simple, reasonable and evidence based: 1. Examine your habits and tendencies. Consider your …

Rockquemore: Mid-Semester Sinking Feeling

Writing in Inside Higher Ed this week, Kerry Ann Rockquemore addresses that "Mid-Semester Sinking Feeling," when you feel you are behind on your teaching, grading, and committee work, not to mention you are disorganized and stuck on your research and writing. Rockquemore recommends a system to reorganize your research and writing projects in a very …