We're thrilled to have you as a visitor and hope that your visit to the all new Psychiatric Times community helps you as a medical professional perform your job better.

As we began to redesign this site, we thought a lot about what psychiatrists and the people that work with them can gain from a web site. And, we kept coming back to a single word: community. And by that we mean a place where medical professionals can come to learn, to engage, to communicate, all with the goal of helping to improve the practice of medicine.

Like all communities, we see Psychiatric Times as a two-way site:

In one direction, we will continue to bring you the authoritative articles from CMPMedica's entire range of journals along with educational CME programs, SearchMedica, and other materials and content that will help you perform your critical job better and more effectively.

In the other direction, we are going to look more and more to you to participate in the community and to make Psychiatric Times a vibrant and lively online space for psychiatrists and other healthcare professionals.

Over the past year, you've probably seen a lot of incremental changes to this site. Notably, we added SearchMedica, a search engine that indexes web sites that our medical editors and key advisors from our editorial boards have vetted and reviewed to be especially relevant to the practicing health care professional. Our research showed that doctors were tired of panning through thousands of non-medical results just to find the relevant nugget. In fact, more than 67% of physicians surveyed reported too many irrelevant results as the main challenge when using consumer search engines. A SearchMedica search box appears at the top of nearly every page on the community so you will always be just a click away from a broad range of relevant and clinically reputable content for practicing clinicians

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Because you diagnose and treat patients by disorder or condition, we now organize all of our articles and content by the topic areas most commonly used by health care professionals like you. Complete topic pages listing the most relevant articles are presented throughout the community, and because the most recent articles are listed first, we provide you with a snapshot of what's current. What's more, to the topic pages we've attached deep links into relevant content in SearchMedica, providing you with an easy way to get at the Web's most relevant:

• Research Reviews
• Evidence-Based Articles
• Practice Guidelines
• Clinical Trials
• Practical Articles/News
• CME


In future we'll add more and more content from other credible, authoritative sources so that you can count on our topic pages to enhance your daily practice.

Throughout the community site, we are working to package articles and other content in ways that are more relevant to you and your information needs.

The "What's New in Psychiatry" section on the home page brings you recent articles not only from Psychiatric Times but also information from sister clinical publications and other trusted CMPMedica sources.

The "Featured Content" area provides direct links into content, articles, conferences, and other elements that we believe are important to you.

"What Your Colleagues Are Reading" lists the articles on the community that have been accessed most often by other doctors and mental health professionals -- content that they found valuable.

Plus, we will continue to provide polling, CME, quizzes, and other interactive features that will help to educate you and enhance the practice.

Of course, the current community site is just a beginning. We are actively working on new features that will strive to make Psychiatric Times even more valuable to your daily practice. Future enhancements may include:

• Blogs providing insights, information, and links to specifically relevant off-site content.
• Discussion forums where you can interact with other doctors and health care professionals and engage in co-learning.
• And we are exploring video, podcasts, and other features that will provide you a hand in improving the overall practice of healthcare.


Do you have ideas of what you'd like to see on this community? Please let us know how you like these additions and what you'd like us to consider in the future. You can email us at PTWebmaster@cmp.com