Sam Powell

MD-PhD Resident Physician in the Research-Track Residency in Psychiatry at Harvard/BIDMC. Opinions are mine alone.

[Sam Powell @SamPowell_Neuro]

Excited to share that my final paper from grad school has (finally) been published! With ⁦@AkbarianLab⁩ and @kristenbrennand https://t.co/5BpjNSnGPW

[Sam Powell @SamPowell_Neuro]

The New York Times should be ashamed of itself. I didn’t know I could count on them to promote dangerous, medically and scientifically illiterate, grossly ignorant quackery.

https://t.co/PhJ84PI3YV

[Sam Powell @SamPowell_Neuro]

PSA. The show “The Resident” is just a massive, condensed compendium of every resident’s collected nightmares all compacted into one episode. Residents: do NOT watch even one episode. Don’t make the same mistake I did. Never again. 😇

[Allen Frances @AllenFrancesMD]

Today we celebrate 'Dr. Aaron T. Beck Day'.

In my view, Beck was 2nd greatest contributor in history of psychotherapy (after only Ferenczi).

Learn more about his life/contributions to therapy technique by joining Beck Institute description of his legacy:
https://t.co/NtE7cIW1Pc

[Sam Powell @SamPowell_Neuro]

HA.

[Michael Baym @baym]

GPT-6 will have an advice blog on how to switch from academia to industry

[Sam Powell @SamPowell_Neuro]

… of the things people should be studying!

[Sam Powell @SamPowell_Neuro]

Love this, and completely agree on all points as someone who is trained in and practices an “evidence based” psychotherapy 😉. We need to do so much better in how we study psychotherapy. @JonathanShedler I’m curious if there are any studies you like on the following: (short 🧵)

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

1/ The “evidence-based therapy” game—explained with 🥞

I have a pancake recipe. I do randomized controlled trials (RCTs) showing that people like my 🥞 better than getting no breakfast at all

My🥞are now “evidence-based” & yours aren’t. I start telling everyone my🥞are superior

[Sam Powell @SamPowell_Neuro]

… long term (typical-ish duration) psychodynamic therapy to (definitely) long term CBT of equal duration and how they perform on relevant/important/meaningful outcomes? Asking for a friend 😅. If not, I’ll def investigate the literature myself. If still nothing, this is one …

[Sam Powell @SamPowell_Neuro]

This post 👍❤️. The Meyers-Briggs or MBTI is just awful. It’s disappointing that the “most advanced” corporate “consultants” use it to “inform” administrative practices. Having no psychological information is oftentimes better than having bad psychological “information.”

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

The Big Five test is about twice as accurate as the Meyers-Briggs test for predicting life outcomes, placing the usefulness of the MBTI test halfway between science and astrology—literally.

When we use personality tests that impose categories—like the Meyers Briggs or Astrology—we risk exaggerating the differences between groups and the similarities within them. When this occurs with other types of identities like race or gender, we typically call it “stereotyping” and we try to avoid it. When consultants do it in companies, they are creating the same dynamics and doing it on dubious scientific grounds.

Our latest newsletter explains why the MTBI is a bad measure, but why we are nevertheless obsessed with it! https://t.co/4VfRnv9qcZ

[Sam Powell @SamPowell_Neuro]

Today was my last day of medical school and last day of a 9-year-long MD/PhD program at Mount Sinai 🥲

[Sam Powell @SamPowell_Neuro]

This gave me a nice chuckle

[Clement Lee, MD, MSc @ClementLeeMD]

medical jargon:

“empiric” = I don’t know
“differential is broad” = I don’t know
“correlate clinically” = I don’t know
“poor historian” = he/she doesn’t know
“consult rheumatology” = who knows?

[Clement Lee, MD, MSc @ClementLeeMD]

medical jargon:

“empiric” = I don’t know
“differential is broad” = I don’t know
“correlate clinically” = I don’t know
“poor historian” = he/she doesn’t know
“consult rheumatology” = who knows?

[Empire State Building Observation Deck @EmpireStateBldg]

I AM FINE

[Sam Powell @SamPowell_Neuro]

@JonathanShedler @elliotpsych “Many things are believed only because they are repeated frequently”—often attributed to Nietzsche

[Sam Powell @SamPowell_Neuro]

With the burnout many of us feel due to constant news cycles and social media, count me in on #NoOpinion, when appropriate. Question is, when is it ok to not be informed about an issue and thus not have an opinion about it? Feel free to not have an opinion on this (ha)…I think?

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

This Thanksgiving, let's be thankful that we live in a country where you're free to express your opinion, but it's still ok not to have one. #NoOpinion

[Sam Powell @SamPowell_Neuro]

HUGE. CRISPR-based therapy for sickle cell disease approved in UK!

UK authorises gene therapy for blood disorders in world first https://t.co/hgrEWj0kWU

[Sam Powell @SamPowell_Neuro]

@kristenbrennand Thanks Kristen :)

[Sam Powell @SamPowell_Neuro]

Really proud of this one! Several years in the making. We show that medical students can make great CBT therapists and can provide clinically beneficial therapy to patients in need, who also report that it helps across broad domains of life! #CBT
https://t.co/bo67XXUpBw