RIP: Ode to my textbooks
If you were to take a look at my bookcases, you would classify me as a book hoarder. Yes, it’s true I have been collecting book. Some have been with me since college. Books have so much information, and I have always felt a bit paranoid about throwing them away and then not having them for a critical piece of information that I need. [+]
Top 10 reasons why Yoda would be a terrible mentor and teacher in medicine
This is based on an article from GeekWire that lists the top ten reasons why Yoda would make a terrible mentor and teacher. Let’s see if I can make a derivation and convert these reasons as to why Yoda would make a terrible mentor/teacher in medicine. [+]
Conference: Faculty development and teaching course
The always-innovative, premiere educator Dr. Rob Rogers (Univ of Maryland) is hosting an international faculty development conference in November 2011. I’m guessing that this course is also open to U.S. physicians as well. [+]
Director of Growth, Strategic [+]
The essay of all essays: The biology of Emergency Medicine (2 of 2)
This is part 2 of my review of Dr. Rosen’s 1979 article on “The Biology of Emergency Medicine” (see part 1). According to Dr. Rosen, there are 3 broad categories of ED patients: The emergent The urgent The non-urgent We must know how to identify and prioritize these. Medical students and residents are poorly taught the differences. [+]
The essay of all essays: The Biology of Emergency Medicine (1 of 2)
This post is based on one of the most interesting articles I have ever read in EM. The article written by Dr. Peter Rosen in 1979 and published in The Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians (later become Annals of Emergency Medicine) is a landmark piece. It defines the specialty with so much precision that even contemporary authors find very little discrepancy of what Dr. Rosen wrote and the state of EM in present time. [+]
Video: A primer on social media (ICEM 2012)
At the recent International Conference in Emergency Medicine (ICEM), the professorial Dr. Mike Cadogan (Life In The Fast Lane) gave a talk on Social Media in Medicine. Thanks to Dr. Andy Neill (Emergency Medicine Ireland) for recording this. See below for the 36 minute video. Well worth a watch. [+]
Top 10 tips to building a productive academic team
I have been meaning to share this list of great tips about building a productive academic team. Major projects often require an interdisciplinary team of experts who are equally motivated towards a shared goal. I was recently at the 2012 Society of Academic Emergency Medicine where Dr. William McGaghie gave an inspiring CDEM keynote speech. He has been on a myriad of successful academic teams and he shared with us his top 10 list of pearls for team-building. [+]
Twitter conference notes: High Risk EM and Gaming Symposium
Yesterday, I attended two fantastic conferences and so wasn’t able to make a new Paucis Verbis card: UCSF High Risk Emergency Medicine UCSF Gaming and Learning Symposium [+]
Director of Growth, Strategic Alliance Initiative, Center for [+]
KidsCareEverywhere-Vietnam study findings: SAEM 2012 meeting
I recently had the pleasure of presenting our KidsCareEverywhere-Vietnam team's study findings at the national SAEM meeting in Chicago. Bottom line Despite knowing English as a second language, Vietnamese physicians were able to easily navigate an English-based, clinical decision support software (PEMSoft) after only a brief 80-minute training session, conducted by non-physicians. Their post-test exam scores improved by 84%!
TED video: The happy secret to better work
If you have a few minutes, take a listen to this rather humorous and thought-provoking TED video about the "intersection of human potential, success, and happiness". The speaker, Shawn Achor, is the CEO of Good Think Inc, a Cambridge-based consulting firm which researches positive outliers -- people who are well above average, and author of "The Happiness Advantage". “If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLJsdqxnZb0
Director of Growth, Strategic Alliance Initiative, Center for Innovation and Digital Health
Massachusetts General Hospital;
Chief Scientific Officer, Conductscience.com
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