How I Educate Series: Andy Little, DO
This week’s How I Educate post features Dr. Andy Little, the Associate Program Director at AdventHealth Florida in Orlando. Dr. Little spends approximately 90% of his shifts with learners, including emergency medicine residents, off-service residents, and medical students. He describes his practice environment as a busy community EM residency program that sees over 100,000 patients per year. Below he shares with us his approach to teaching learners on shift. Name 3 words that describe a teaching shift with you. Malleable, understanding, fun. What delivery methods do use when teaching on shift? Post its and fill in the blanks. [+]
How I Educate Series: Geoff Comp, DO
This week’s How I Educate post features Dr. Geoff Comp, the Associate Program Director at Creighton University School of Medicine/Valleywise Health Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Comp spends all of his shifts with learners, including emergency medicine residents, off-service residents, and medical students. He describes his practice environment as a county hospital with a Level 1 Trauma designation that has both an adult and pediatric emergency room. Below he shares with us his approach to teaching learners on shift. Name 3 words that describe a teaching shift with you. Innovative, evidenced-based, fun What delivery methods do use when [+]
How I Educate: Graham Snyder, MD
This week’s How I Educate post features Dr. Graham Snyder, the Associate Program Director at the University of North Carolina and Director of Education for WakeMed Health and Hospitals. Dr. Snyder spends approximately 90% of his shifts with learners which include emergency medicine residents, off-service residents, and medical students. He describes his practice environment as a Level 1 trauma center that sees 125,000 patients annually. Below he shares with us his approach to teaching learners on shift. Name 3 words that describe a teaching shift with you. Practically Academic, Comradery, Rejuvenating What delivery methods do use when teaching on [+]
How I Educate Series: Guy Carmelli, MD
This week's How I Educate post features Dr. Guy Carmelli, who is an Assistant Professor at UMass Medical School and co-leader of their EM Sub-I rotation. Dr. Carmelli spends approximately 80% of his shifts with learners which include emergency medicine residents, off-service residents, and medical students. He describes his practice environment as a tertiary care academic center with trauma, stroke, and cardiac cath capabilities. Below he shares with us his approach to teaching learners on shift. Name 3 words that describe a teaching shift with you. Enthusiasm, excitement, and engagement What delivery methods do use when teaching on shift? [+]
How I Educate Series: Moises Gallegos, MD
This week's How I Educate post features Dr. Moises Gallegos, the Clerkship Director at Stanford University. Dr. Gallegos spends approximately 75% of his shifts with learners which include emergency medicine residents, off-service residents, medical students, and physician assistant students. He describes his practice environment as an academic Emergency Department at a medical research institution that serves as a Level 1 Trauma facility. Below he shares with us his approach to teaching learners on shift. Name 3 words that describe a teaching shift with you. Collaborative, Safe, Growth-oriented What delivery methods do use when teaching on shift? My teaching approaches [+]
How I Educate Series: Fareen Zaver, MD
This week's How I Educate post features Dr. Fareen Zaver, the Deputy Head of Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Calgary. Dr. Zaver spends approximately 30% of her shifts with learners at two tertiary care hospitals which include emergency medicine residents, off-service residents, and medical students. Below she shares with us her approach to teaching learners on shift. What is one thing (if nothing else) that you hope to instill in those you teach? Take the time to give proper and SIMPLE discharge instructions for every patient you see. No medical jargon, clear follow-up [+]
How I Educate Series: Michael Gisondi, MD
This week's How I Educate post features Dr. Michael Gisondi, the Vice Chair of Education at Stanford University. Dr. Gisondi spends approximately 80% of his shifts with learners which include emergency medicine residents, off-service residents, medical students, and physician assistant students. He describes his practice environment as a busy, high-acuity, university-based, suburban hospital with an annual ED census of 85,000. One-third of the patients speak a language other than English and one-third are without health insurance. Below he shares with us his approach to teaching learners on shift. Name 3 words that describe a teaching shift with you. Direct [+]
EM Match Advice 38: Our 2 Cents | The Revamped Standardized Letter of Evaluation (SLOE) is here
This is the 38th episode of EM Match Advice but the inaugural episode for new podcast series host, Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (program director at Stanford EM residency program)! This quick podcast episode was recorded to coincide with the new, much-anticipated release of the Standardized Letter of Evaluation (SLOE 2.0). We address questions of why the changes, and what is different. In this podcast, Dr. Krzyzaniak and Dr. Michelle Lin speak with 2 key faculty who helped lead the multi-year development of this key piece of the residency application puzzle: Dr. Sharon Bord (Johns Hopkins EM Clerkship Director, 2022-23 President of [+]
EM Match Advice 37: EM Program Directors Reflect on the 2022 Match
In this 37th episode of EM Match Advice, we discuss the results of the 2021-22 EM Residency Match with lots of shocking numbers and surprises to review. The table above lists the trends and data since 2014, extracted from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) site [1]. Could this have been foreseen? What does this mean for the 2022-23 EM Match season? In this podcast, Dr. Mike Gisondi and Dr. Michelle Lin host the following esteemed panel of 3 program directors to review this juicy table and discuss the future: Dr. Abra Fant (Northwestern University) Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (Stanford University) [+]
Need your help: A master list of free EM and Critical Care blog and podcast sites
Calling all who read or listen to emergency medicine/critical care (EM/CC) blogs or podcasts. In 2014, we helped to publish the master inventory of free open-access medical education (FOAMed) resources spanning the period of 2002-2013 [1]. In that publication, we demonstrated an exponential rise of both blogs and podcasts with 141 blogs and 42 podcasts (total 183 sites). In 2019, the Life in the Fast Lane (LITFL) team identified 251 active sites. But where are we at now? Why create an EM/CC master list of sites? Most of the time, we encounter new resources by word-of-mouth or through Google search [+]
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