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Bonnie SpringPRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Evidence-Based Practice: New Learning Resources to "Mind the Gap"

Mind the Gap

London subway travelers are repeatedly urged to "Mind the Gap!" The message calls attention to the (often nontrivial) physical gulf between the station platform and the train floor. I now keep a "Mind the Gap" emblem on my computer screen. It reminds me that behavioral medicine needs to cross a comparably insidious gap: the one between what we know scientifically and what we apply in health care practice. A useful bridging resource will now appear on the SBM website in the form of free, on-line learning modules about how to apply evidence in practice. Read more

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The Society of Behavioral Medicine is a multidisciplinary organization of clinicians, educators, and scientists dedicated to promoting the study of the interactions of behavior with biology and the environment, and the application of that knowledge to improve the health and well being of individuals, families, communities and populations.

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