Resuscitation 2012 conference
What are you doing the rest of this week? Hop on a plane to Las Vegas and join me at the 2012 Resuscitation conference. It looks to be a great conference. I'll be giving a 3-hour (!) discussion session on "Tips and Tricks in Emergency Medicine" on Friday. Inevitably when I given this talk, I always come away with great ideas from the audience. I'll be sure to write them down and share on the blog.
Hot off the Press: Talking about Web 2.0 in Emergency Medicine
I am humbled to be included and quoted in a recent Annals of EM commentary about Web 2.0 in Emergency Medicine. Hey, my "street credibility" just went up just by having my name in the same article with the likes of: Mike Cadogan (Life in the Fast Lane) Joe Lex (Free Emergency Medicine Talks) Chris Nickson (Life in the Fast Lane) Cliff Reid (ResusMe) Scott Weingart (EMCrit) You can read the whole article, which is free to download by the journal.
Video: Khan Academy and digital whiteboards
Dr. Rob Rogers (University of Maryland) is at it again with another brilliant installment of his Medical Education Videos. This 10-minute video covers the Khan Academy and how you too can create an interactive digital whiteboard for education. He talks about Doceri ($50 single-user access) and Splashtop ($19.99 for the iPad app). [+]
Article review: New assessment method for medical students – A Script Concordance Test
What different ways can we assess learners? This fascinating study assesses a new tool – Script Concordance Test (SCT). Assessing clinical reasoning skills in scenarios of uncertainty: Convergent validity for a Script Concordance Test in an Emergency Medicine clerkship and residency [+]
Paucis Verbis: Feedback card
Today's Paucis Verbis card is a little different. This card focuses on helping you give talking points when giving feedback to a learner on shift. This could be a medical student or resident. Dr. David Thompson (UCSF-San Francisco General Hospital) sent this great card to me and I thought it was too useful NOT to share. It's handy on shift, which ultimately is the purpose of these Paucis Verbis cards. These are useful especially for senior residents, who are supervising medical students and junior residents. This card can be used in many ways. For instance: Print these cards and fill [+]
Crowdsourcing all of your burning questions about EM
Have you noticed that on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire”, asking the audience as a lifeline almost always results in the right answer (over 90% of the time)? Dr. David Thorisson (Lund University, Scandinavia) recently approached me with a novel idea of doing the same for Emergency Medicine questions. These questions are currently posted to a public Google Docs document, which allows anyone to post and answer questions. [+]
Calling all med students: SAEM Ambassador opportunity
Are you a medical student interested in EM? Want to get your registration costs waived at a national meeting? Want to come say hi to me? Here is an announcement from the SAEM website (deadline Feb 1, 2012): [+]
Video: Dr. Eric Mazur on peer teaching
“My lecturing was ineffective, despite the high evaluations.” “The traditional approach to teaching reduces education to a transfer of information.” – Dr. Eric Mazur Dr. Eric Mazur is a Harvard Professor of Physics and Applied Physics who talks about his “confessions of a converted lecturer”. He focuses on the power of peer teaching and the ineffectiveness of the traditional lecture format in a classroom. This talk is 72 minutes long. Take some time to listen and learn. Dr. Mazur is such an engaging talk that I couldn’t stop watching. Maybe it’s because he looks a little like the comedian Steve [+]
Article review: Evaluating your written evaluation of a learner
As a new faculty, one of the first challenges that I encountered was completing evaluation forms for medical students and residents. In our department, a Daily Evaluation Card (DEC) is to be completed at the end of every shift for each learner. These DEC’s are then collated by the program directors to yield a summative final rotation evaluation. What I wondered was: how can I best use these DEC’s to help learners progress as medical professionals and at the same time provide critical information for the PD’s? [+]
G-Advising: Using Google Hangout to advise medical students
Get an advisor. Don’t try to navigate medical school and residency on your own. This is key especially during medical school as you try to get through and around the mounds of reading, paperwork, options, and pitfalls. If you are interested in Emergency Medicine (EM) as a career, that means getting one or several great EM advisors. Don’t rely on non-EM faculty to give you any insight into EM. Inevitably, I have found that they give incomplete or slightly skewed perspectives about the pros and cons of EM. [+]
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