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What's New on Journey
of Hearts?
- August 2000 - December 2001
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page lets visitors to this site find the newest sections, including
the latest articles, poems and information about Journey of Hearts as it is added
to the site. The new entries are listed in reverse order, with the latest
additions or changes at the top.
December 2001
 Revised
Article, Holiday or Anyday Blues, Ways of Coping - "Coping
with the Holidays in the Year of Tragedy and Change: How Tragic Events
Impact the Holiday Season" - This
article, finished on the 3rd month anniversary of the September 11 events,
is a shorter, revised version of the Holidays 2001 article, that focuses
primarily on helping Victims and Survivors of Tragedy as well as thoughts
surounding the holidays this year. The article also appears on the MomMd.com
website.
Article, Ways of Coping - "Good
Grief! I'm Having a Charlie Brown Xmas." - This
article explores the holiday through the "blue" eyes of Charlie Brown.
It also looks at my personal experience of the holiday blues during medical
school and training and offers some strategies for coping with the blues
during medical training, as well as coping with the blues in general. The
article also appears on the MomMd.com
website.
Thoughts on This Holiday
Season of Change - Not quite a poem,
not quite a blessing these "Thoughts on the 2001 Holiday Season A Time
of Change" are offered so that others might reflect on the year
that has been, the challenges we have faced, the changes that have taken
place, and what we have learned. I hope that others reading these thoughts
will feel blessed as I do this year.
Online Candle Lighting, Blessings & Season's
Greetings - Still as appropriate as it was when the page was first
created for Christmas 1999, "Light Candles This
Season," provides our visitors with the opportunity to light candles
online for joy, hope, courage, peace, grace and love.
Updated Article, Holiday or Anyday Blues "The
Holidays 2001: Coping in this Year of Change & Uncertainty"
- New for this Holiday season, an updated version of our "Basics
about the Holiday Blues." The initial revised version, Ways of
Coping with the Holiday Blues" was used as a handout for physicians at
the Medical Grand Rounds lecture presented at Kaiser Permanente, Diablo
Service Area in November on "Identifying Loss(es) and the Grief Response
in Our Patients." Additional material was added after contemplating just
how different this year, this holiday season is compared to recent years
past.
Article, Ways of Coping - "Creating
Rituals During The Holidays" written and shared by Gail
R. Mitchell from the Empowering Caregivers Website, http://www.care-givers.com/.
Article, Ways of Coping - "Creatively
Expressing Grief" This article was originally part of the syllabus
created for the Professional Course on the Somatic Aspects of Loss &
Grief offered this summer through the University of California Berkeley
Extension. It was first used on the site as part of the 9-11: United in
Courage & Grief resources.
Article, Resources "The
Importance of Telling (and Listening to) the Story." A shorter,
earlier version appeared within the 9-11 United in Courage & Grief
Section.
Updated E-cards for Sympathy,
Condolence & Pick-me-ups - For the holidays we have updated
the Journey of Hearts e-cards. We are hoping with the new site to eventually
be able to create our own advertising-free e-mail cards.
Upcoming Memorial, December 9, 2001
Worldwide
Candle Lighting - The Worldwide Candle
Lighting is held annually on the second Sunday in December, this year December
9, 2001. At 7 pm in every time zone, candles are lighted in honor of all
children who have died. As candles burn down in one time zone, they are
lighted in the next, creating a 24-hour memorial.
Redesign Update - After completing updated
information for the Holidays, the next step is to finally begin the redesign
of Journey of Hearts site. With some effort and luck, we hope that we can
let the new version go live in January, as we work on editing and updating
materials.
November 2001
Presentation - November 21, 2001 - Dr. Dyer
presented Medical Grand Rounds on the topic "Identifying Loss(es) and the
Grief Response in Our Patients" for the Kaiser Permanente Diablo Service
Area to more than 100 physicians at five facilities. Included in this presentation
is the new version of "Ways of Coping with the Holiday Blues." Journey
of Hearts is listed as a resource.
A Major Milestone - Journey of Hearts surpassed
the 250,000 visitor mark. With the two URL's linking to the site (something
we plan on remedying in the new version) and many people finding information
on pages deep within the site, , we believe that these numbers reflect
only a percentage of the actual visitors to Journey of Hearts.
Journey of Hearts Poem "The Messenger" is Featured
- "The Messenger" poem is one of the "Poems &
Prayers" listed on the NYFD Widows Message and Support Board. http://www.nyfdwidows.net
- "The Messenger" was also featured in the October
2001 Newsletter from the Amelia Center in the newsletter devoted to the
aftermath of the September 11, 2001 tragedy.
October 2001
Presentation Mentioned, TechMed October 25, 2001.
The article by Ronnie S. Stangler, MD "Medinfo2001 -- Towards Global Health:
The Informatics Route to Knowledge" mentions the presentation ("Medical
Internet Ethics: A Field in Evolution") that addressed the evolution of
Internet ethics, elaborating on dilemmas posed by research on the Internet.
The article can be found at www.medscape.com
under the online TechMed journal. Requires registering to view the article.
September -
October 2001
September 11, 2001 - The Day the World Changed. The
redesign of the Journey of Hearts website is put on hold in order to research
and compile resources following this national disaster.
9-11: United in Grief
Why does my heart feel so
bad?
What is Different
about this Event?
The Healing Effect of
Telling the Story
Wake-up Call for the World
Health Concerns for Witnesses
to the Events
Blessings, Prayers, Lyrics,
Poems & Quotes
911: Blessings
911: Prayers
911: Lyrics
911: Poems
911: Quotes
Remembering Our Children
Helping Children to Cope
with Tragedy
A Letter to Help Children
Cope with Tragedy
Ways of Helping & Coping
Creatively Expressing
Grief
Resources - Professionals,
Visitors & Parents
For those who would like to share their thoughts,
how they are coping with this tragedy, post a message, tell their story,
share resources that have been helpful, or respond to someone else's message
we are opening up the new message forum ahead of plans for Journey of Hearts,
"Transformations on the Journey." Message Forum
Paper on "Medical Internet Ethics: A Field in Evolution"
included as part of the Tenth World Congress on Health and Medical Informatics,
Medinfo
2001
in London.
August 2001
U.C. Berkeley Extension Instructor - Dr.
Dyer teaches a course on the Somatic Aspects of Loss and Grief in August
2001 for the U.C. Berkeley Extension This course fulfills one requirement
for the Professional Program in the Study of Loss and Grief, now being
offered by the Counseling and Psychotherapy department. For more information
on the Professional Program in Loss and Grief see http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cert/loss.html
May 2001
Redesign Begins! - The New and (we hope) Improved Version of Journey of Hearts
After nearly two years in the thought or planning stages, the redesign of the Journey of Hearts
site is finally underway. See the redesign page
for more information or to take our redesign poll.
Medscape
Article on
Death & Dying Quotes Dr. Dyer - Hope Vanderberg, MA, Assistant
Editor for Medscape interviewed Dr. Dyer for her report on the 51st AMSA
Conference in "Conference
Summary: Skirting the Issue of End-of-Life Care"
for insights into the medical education process on death and dying.
Note: Accessing this article requires a free registration at the Medscape site. Sorry for any inconvience :)
April 2001
U.C. Berkeley Extension Instructor - Dr.
Dyer is scheduled to teach a course on the Somatic Aspects of Loss and
Grief in August 2001 for the U.C. Berkeley Extension This course
fulfills one requirement for the Professional Program in the Study of Loss
and Grief, now being offered by the Counseling and Psychotherapy department.
For more information on the course see http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/025023.html For
more information on the Professional Program in Loss and Grief see http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cert/loss.html
Journey of Hearts Paper used in Medical Informatics
Course Syllabus - Our paper on "Journey
of Hearts: From Idea to Reality" presented at the ITCH
2000 in August is included Topics and Readings list for MINF 520.
This paper was included as an example of Patient education and informatics
for this Oregon Health Sciences University course in Consumer Healthcare
Informatics.
March 2001
Acceptance of Paper for Medinfo 2001 - Dr.
Dyer is scheduled to present paper on "Medical Internet Ethics: A Field
in Evolution" at the Tenth World Congress on Health and Medical Informatics,
Medinfo 2001, this September
in London.
Presentation - Dr. Kirsti A. Dyer presents
a special conference program on "Dealing with Death and Dying in Medical
Education and Practice" as part of the Interest
Group on Death and Dying
at the The American
Medical Student Association's (AMSA) 51st Annual Convention in
Anaheim, California.
Online Death & Dying Web Resource - This
section of website includes the materials used for the AMSA presentation.
Special articles include:
Medicine,
Ethics & Informatics - This web
resource was prepared Winter Quarter 2001 as a project for the Oregon Health
Sciences MINF 528 Course, Advanced Topics in Medical Informatics. The authors
of this resource are Ella Epshteyn and Kirsti A. Dyer, MD, MS. (Dr. Dyer
is currently a graduate student in the OHSU's Distance Learning Program
in Medical Informatics.)
Expert & Advisor Physician Services - Dr.
Dyer joins as an Expert and Advisor to the MomMD® Website, the online
community for women in medicine. http://www.mommd.com/advisors.html
Article - Written for the MomMD® website
"The Road Now Taken, One Woman Doctor's Journey through medicine" article
discusses my views on the hardships of medicine and the blessings of motherhood.
http://www.mommd.com/road.html
Article - A second article written for MomMD®
"The Road Lightly Traveled: Part-time Medicine" discusses the benefits
I have found in working part-time in Medicine. http://www.mommd.com/road2.html
Award - Journey
of Hearts receives another medical website award; this one from Med411
in recognition of "Content of interest to healthcare professionals" and
"Tone and presentation maintained at a professional level Site structure,
navigation and graphic design executed at a professional level."
February 2001
A Major Milestone - Journey of Hearts surpassed
the 200,000 visitor mark. This represents only a small fraction of the
actual numbers who are finding the site, since April 1998.
December 2000
Presentation - Dr. Kirsti A. Dyer presents
a Continuing Medical Education lecture on "Healing from Grief Using a Website,
Color, Writing, Poetry and Wilderness," for the The
American Institute of Medical Education
in Maui, Hawaii. The lecture was based on information derived from the
Journey of Hearts website.
October 2000
Featured Website - Journey of Hearts was a
featured website October 13, 2000 at the Spiritual
Sisters of the Internet Cafe.
They described as the site as "an excellent online healing resource focusing
on loss and grief can be found at Journey of the Hearts, which deals with
the many facets of grief and loss, everyday loss and lifetime loss."
Note: This article is no longer available at their web site. Sorry for any inconvience :)
August 2000
Presentation - Dr. Kirsti A. Dyer presents
a paper on "Journey of Hearts: From Idea to Reality A Website for Web-education
on Grief and Loss" at the ITCH
2000 (Information Technology in community Health) Conference head
at the University of Victoria, School of Information Health Sciences in
Victoria British Columbia. http://itch.uvic.ca/itch2000/DYER/DYER.htm
In
the aftermath of the September 11 tragedy, we are a country and a world
forever changed.
Life is very different
in the wake of this event.
This tragedy has taught
all of us that life is very short and very precious.
Kirsti A. Dyer,
MD, MS
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