Online Educational Resources from Residencies
Residency provides clinical training to new physicians. Many programs have started offering online educational content to their residents. These are great resources to learn from some of the leading educators in EM from the comfort of your home. Below is a list of some of my favorites. [+]
ALiEM Bookclub: Five Days at Memorial
Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink (@sherifink) invites us to examine what we expect of ourselves in the medical community during times of disaster: what is demanded by our Emergency Medicine training in triage, disaster management, and end of life care, and what ethics form the foundation of our practice when systems around us fail. Dr. Fink’s book offers an opportunity for us, as health care practitioners, to openly discuss with the communities we serve the ethics that crash into conflict in settings of unfathomable duress and insufficient resources. [+]
Sim Case Series: Procedural Sedation
Case Writer: Brent Thoma, MD MACase Editors: Teresa Chan, MD and Nikita Joshi, MD This procedural sedation simulation case can be used to teach, evaluate or reinforce the skills needed to safely perform procedural sedation. It presents a new format for the ALiEM Sim Case Series: Teresa Chan (@TChanMD) has worked magic to amalgamate all of the materials into a cohesive, organized, easy to follow format that also happens to be pretty. The freely downloadable PDF below includes: [+]
Get Started on Becoming a Recognized Speaker
Love sitting in the audience at national and local conferences listening to great speakers, but always have that nagging feeling that you also have something valuable to teach and share with the audience? Or have you ever wanted to directly confront your greatest fear of public speaking in front of your EM colleagues? Consider speaking opportunities through organization such as AAEM and ACEP! [+]
MEdIC Series: The Case of the New Job Negotiations – Expert and Community Response
The Case of the New Job Negotiations outlined a situation that every physician goes through. After 10-15 years of education in various forms, we finally need to find a “real” job. Things like “how to negotiate” and “what to look for in a job” are not part of the usual medical curriculum so Teresa Chan (@TChanMD) and I (@Brent_Thoma) thought it would be worth building a MEdIC cases that raises these issues. [+]
Just in Time Training
Just in Time Training (JiTT) is an educational concept that has been easily adapted for EM. Interesting, this educational strategy originates from inventory management. To them, JiTT means: right material, right time, right place, in the exact amount. In educational terms, this means: right educational modality, given to the learner at the right time, at the right location, and exactly the amount needed. [+]
Calling all EM residents: Submit an abstract to Annals of EM
Did you know that there is a section in the Annals of Emergency Medicine that is written by EM residents only? As Annals’ Resident Fellow, I wanted to share a great writing and publishing opportunity with my fellow residents. Many of the residents who have published in this series have gone on to do great things in EM as faculty members. [+]
ALiEM Book Club Wrap Up: A Temporary Matter
The November book club selection was a short story A Temporary Matter from the collection Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. The goal in selecting the story was to gain an understanding of how doctors impact the lives of patients, even in the briefest of encounters. For this month, we do a 14-minute book club wrap up in podcast form! Dr. Teresa Chan and I discuss the story, significance to clinical practice, and announce next month's selection.
MEdIC Series: The Case of the New Job Negotiations
The final year of residency is challenging. Your responsibilities at work increase. Exams loom. And the job or fellowship hunt begins… This month in the MEdIC series we present the case of Jamal, a senior emergency medicine resident who is torn between the job he desires and the job that others are suggesting that he pursue. Join us as we ‘listen in’ on his conversation with his friend Cindy (a Pulmonology fellow) as they compare their adventures in new job negotiations. [+]
Faculty hero: Dr. Stacey Poznanski
As part of a series on Faculty Heroes, I wanted to highlight Dr. Stacey Poznanski (Director of EM Undergraduate Education and Assistant Professor of EM at Wright State University), who has done amazing things in EM. Most recently I had the pleasure of co-presenting at the 2013 International EM Teaching Course with Stacey at our Powerpoint Resuscitation workshop. The following are some of her thoughtful words of wisdom for those interested in EM, education, and academics. [+]
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