The mystique of direct laryngoscopy: Learning and teaching the procedure
This post is about an editorial comment by Dr. Richard Levitan on an article (1) about pulmonary critical care doctors performing intubations in the ICU (2). The study states that pulmonary critical care doctors can successfully perform this procedure. Dr. Levitan reports that intubation in elective anesthesia has a success rate between 98-99%, but when failure occurs the consequence can be catastrophic. The initial success rate of beginners is usually 50%, and it takes about 50 attempts in elective intubations to be 90% proficient. [+]
New blog section on Medical Education by Dr. Nikita Joshi
“I desire no other epitaph…than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.” – Sir William Osler, renowned physician and believer in bedside medical education And with this quotation I would like to introduce a new segment to Academic Life in Emergency Medicine. One of the most important job descriptions we have as physicians is to be a clinical instructor… while simultaneously running cardiac arrest codes, managing agitated altered mental status patients, and avoiding documentation errors. [+]
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy
Have you heard of Bloom’s Taxonomy? As active adult learners, we must be conscientious about the what, how, and why we are reading a piece of literature. Being conscientious makes us more efficient, selective, and critical about what we learn. This in turn will help us to provide better care for our patients, which is after all our main goal. Although mainly used to develop curricula, I believe that understanding Bloom’s taxonomy and applying it to our learning may help us to learn more effectively. Bloom’s taxonomy can help us identify learning objectives that require higher level of cognitive function, [+]
Mnemonics for difficult airway predictors
Can you list the difficult airway predictors? Do you know the mnemonics: MOANS, LEMON, RODS, and SHORT? [+]
Director of Growth, Strategic Alliance Initiative, Center for Innovation and Digital Health
Massachusetts General Hospital;
Chief Scientific Officer, Conductscience.com
Creating a personal learning environment
What is digital curation? It is the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets.1 Once you have curated the digital content you might want to share with others. There are different ways of sharing this content: Sending out the link Retweeting on Twitter “Like” on Facebook “1+” on Google+ Many others [+]
Hot off the press: Academic EM journal abstracts in Spanish
La revista Academic Emergency Medicine ha creado una nueva función en su página web en la cual todos los resúmenes de los articulos seran traducidos al espanol. Felicidades a AEM por ser la primera revista americana en emergenciologia y unas de las primeras en medicina general por tomar en cuenta a la población de idioma español. [+]
Top 10 tweets about medical education
Here are my favorite 10 tweets in the recent Twitter world about medical education. [+]
Director of Growth, Strategic Alliance Initiative, Center for Innovation and Digital Health
Massachusetts General Hospital;
Chief Scientific Officer, Conductscience.com
Diagnostic tests: Asking the right questions
You have picked up the next chart and have drawn your differential diagnosis based on the patient’s demographic, chief complaint, and vital signs. [+]
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Do you know your resuscitation room?
When I was in medical school doing my critical care elective in EM, I remember seeing the interns preparing tubes and IVs before their shifts started. Since then it was instilled in me that coming early to the shift was essential to make sure that at least your resuscitation room was adequately set up for any major emergency coming through. With the help of a few friends, I made up a list of the equipment that should be present and working appropriately in your resuscitation room. [+]
The 3-minute EM student presentation
One of the most helpful articles I’ve encountered on teaching oral clinical presentations in the ED is a paper from Academic EM in 2008. It summarizes how to teach the “3-minute EM student presentation.” [+]
Director of Growth, Strategic Alliance Initiative, Center for Innovation and Digital Health
Massachusetts General Hospital;
Chief Scientific Officer, Conductscience.com
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