Premature ejaculation occurs when a man ejaculates (cum) too soon. It can be as early as the thought of sex or if it occurs in less than 2 minutes after your penis enters your partner. Premature ejaculation is a common sexual complaint of both men and women. Up to one-third of men can experience this sexual dysfunction at one time or another for various reasons.

As long as it is not the pattern of usual performance it is generally not a cause for concern. The diagnosis of premature ejaculation requires the man to feel distressed and if you can answer yes to the following questions:

Is premature ejaculation a problem or a feature? That depends on how the condition is affecting you. This is treatable and more common than you think.

Delayed Ejaculation

Delayed ejaculation — formerly known as retarded ejaculation — is a condition in which it seems like an extended period of sexual stimulation is required orgasm (climax) and ejaculate. Treating delayed ejaculation depends on the underlying cause (chronic health conditions, surgeries and medications).

Delayed ejaculation is only a problem if it is distressing to you or your partner. It is most common for delayed ejaculation to be a temporary problem.

It is common for men to feel anxious or depressed regarding any sexual dysfunction such as delayed ejaculation. For some men, a minor physical problem that causes a delay in ejaculation might cause anxiety about ejaculating during a sexual encounter. The resulting anxiety might worsen delayed ejaculation.

Now that you have identified a question, reviewed and appraised the literature, and leveled the evidence you need to develop a guide to help you design your scholarly project. A concept is a linguistic representation of a framework that will serve this purpose. 

There has been push towards providing evidence based care. Unfortunately, not all evidence is created equal. A lot of care is still practiced based on low level evidence (sometimes it is because that is all we have, and other times we need to overcome cultural inertia.). This episode will explain how to determine what level of evidence you have based on one particular classification system (Melnyk). The other systems are fairly similar so this is a good primer on how to level the evidence. 

When attempting to get buy in from various stake-holders it is important to present them with good evidence to justify the change.  As you conduct your literature search it is essential that the evidence you gather is of sufficient quality and well suited to the question. This brief episode will review the process of appraising the literature you have found in your search.  

Graduate students who have formulated a question have general scanned the literature. However, conducting a literature search to specifically address a question requires a very systematic approach of reputable sources. This episode will explain the literature searching process to give you an overview and to help focus your efforts. 

Students often struggle when deciding to apply to graduate school because they are challenged by the daunting task of identifying a question. The purpose of this podcast is to help prospective graduate students formulate a sufficiently narrow question that will guide an evidence based scholarly project in their academic and professional career. Having a clear question with sufficient breadth and depth will help ensure that you will actually finish your course of study and contribute something of value to your field of interest.