About Michelle Lin, MD

ALiEM Founder and CEO
Professor and Digital Innovation Lab Director
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

EM Match Advice: How to “Swipe Right” this Interview Season

Applying for residency programs has often been compared to the modern world of dating. So in this 26th installment of the EM Match Advice series, we discuss finding the right-fit program for applicants using modern dating terminology. Join us in this fun and informative episode in navigating the residency match process.

Podcast Episode

A high-stakes component in a medical student’s application for an emergency medicine (EM) residency is the Standard Letter of Evaluation, or SLOE. This is a standardized templated letter, written by an group (e.g. department) or faculty from an EM-residency program. This episode of EM Match Advice gives a behind-the-scenes peek into what letter writers are thinking and a deeper dive into the mechanics of the SLOE.

Program Director Panelists

Arlene Chung, MD MACM (Maimonides Medical Center)
David Snow, MD MSc (Loyola University)
Robin Naples, MD (Thomas Jefferson University)

Read and Listen to the Other EM Match Advice Episodes

Blog posts: https://www.aliem.com/em-match-advice-series/

By Michelle Lin, MD|2022-05-30T23:03:16-07:00Oct 11, 2019|EM Match Advice, Podcasts|

The National Residency Matching Program® (NRMP) annually publishes data for the Residency Match. In this EM Match Advice episode, program directors reflect on the 2019 data for EM [PDF]. How competitive was emergency medicine (EM), especially given the transition period of having a single-accreditation system? Because it seems that EM remains modestly competitive, how many programs should one apply to and interview at? The below table outlines the data trends for 2011-2019.

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2021-07-01T10:13:58-07:00Aug 18, 2019|EM Match Advice, Podcasts|

New free P3 app: PECARN Publication Prospectus

One of the gold standard for building and sustaining collaborative, multi-institutional research networks in medicine is the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) organization. Their efforts on studying pediatric emergency care has resulted some of our specialty’s landmark papers in Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Pediatrics, and Annals of Emergency Medicine. Although we are not officially affiliated with them, we fully support their efforts and wanted to help disseminate their evidence-based findings with an educations. Thus was born the PECARN Publication Prospectus (P3) app project [download free P3 app].

The P3 Project and Team

As with many of our ALiEM initiatives, the P3 project arose from a collaborative sprint effort over a 4 week period in 2019 with prehospital educators, emergency medicine (EM) residents, budding and current pediatric EM fellows, and EM/PEM attending physicians. This app plans to be a “living” catalog of PECARN publications which is updated as their prolific research team continues to publish.

Phase 1: Extracting the clinically-relevant educational pearls and a brief study summary from each of their 140+ peer-reviewed papers
Phase 2: Feature expert peer-reviewer commentaries from one of the paper’s authors
Phase 3: Link high-quality online resources which review or highlight these papers

Jessica Chow, MD (Chief Resident, Department of Emergency Medicine, UC San Francisco)
Lamarr Echols, MD (Emergency physician, Northbay Medical Center)
James Gray, MD (Fellow, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital)
Ryan Hunter, BS NRP FP-C (Paramedic/ Firefighter, Montgomery Co. Fire-EMS; Critical Care Flight Paramedic, U.S. Army National Guard)
Ginger Locke, BA NRP (Associate Professor of EMS Professions, Austin Community College)
Floyd Miracle, BS NRP (Clinical Manager, Jessamine County EMS)
Damian Roland, BMedSci, BMBS, PhD (Honorary Associate Professor and Consultant in Paediatric EM
Jason Woods, MD (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado, Children’s Hospital of Colorado
Michelle Lin, MD (ALiEM Founder; Professor of EM, UC San Francisco)

P3 App

The P3 app, which is compatible with iOS and Android devices, summarizes each of the 140+ PECARN publications. These papers are subcategorized into learner groups (physicians/advanced practice providers, pharmacists, triage nurses, prehospital providers, and administrators) as well as organ system groups.

By Michelle Lin, MD|2020-04-19T18:45:16-07:00Jul 24, 2019|Pediatrics|

Our ALiEMU learning management system, which currently houses the AIR series, Capsules series, and In-Training Exam Prep courses, is ready to slowly open the doors to welcome external authors with high quality content. We are thrilled to welcome a UCSF-sponsored pediatric emergency medicine (EM) point of care ultrasonography (POCUS) series, led by Dr. Margaret Lin. The first course is on the intussusception scan, filled with multiple ultrasound scans showing normal variants and two different types of intussusception.

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-11-10T21:51:53-08:00Jun 28, 2019|ALiEMU, Gastrointestinal, Pediatrics, Radiology, Ultrasound|

We are thrilled to announce the open call for the fourth class of the ALiEM Wellness Think Tank. Every year has a different ambitious focus and this upcoming year is no different. We are lead by a 4-person powerhouse team (Dr. Simiao Li-Sauerwine, Dr. Sarah Mott, Dr. Katie Rebillot, and Dr. Sneha Shah). Want to learn more about it? Think you have what it takes to make the 30-member cut? Membership is free, if invited. Applications are due June 14, 2019. Read all about it and apply on the Wellness Think Tank home page.

UPDATE: Deadline extended to July 15, 2019 to allow for incoming EM interns to also apply!

By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-06-16T12:39:00-07:00May 18, 2019|Wellness, Wellness Think Tank|

In 2014-15, we hosted a “How I Work Smarter” (HIWS) series, led by Dr. Ben Azan, focusing on the individual strategies of high-performing, successful emergency physicians. After the conclusion of the series, Ben went one step further and recruited a team which included Drs. Marilyn Innes, Brent Thoma, myself, Alex Van Duyvendyk, Zafrina Poonja, and Teresa Chan to conduct a thematic analysis, which was just published in Cureus [open access full text].¹ Although the content is from 2014-15 and many of the featured contributors have moved institutions with different roles, the themes and tips remain salient and informative in today’s era of digital and cognitive overload in the clinical and non-clinical environments.

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-06-03T12:25:28-07:00Apr 22, 2019|How I Work Smarter, Research|

In March 2017, our ALiEM Wellness Think Tank launched an ambitious initiative to try to identify the prevalence rate of U.S. emergency medicine (EM) resident burnout across the country. No study to date had been done to assess this. Amazingly we got a response from over 1,500 confirmed U.S. EM residents from 193 residency programs purely through our social media, email listservs, and Wellness Think Tank outreach efforts. We measured burnout using the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey (MBI-HSS). This 22-item MBI-HSS is the most common, validated tool used to measure burnout in healthcare professionals. It assesses 3 subscale domains:

Emotional exhaustion (EE), which means being emotionally depleted at work
Depersonalization (DP), which means a lack of feelings or negative, cynical feelings towards others
Personal accomplishment (PA), which is a positive sense of self-evaluation and success at work.

A combination of high EE, high DP, and/or low PA scores are correlated with burnout.^1,2 This post reviews some of the highlights from our study, High Prevalence of Burnout among Emergency Medicine Residents across the US, which was recently accepted by Annals of Emergency Medicine and published online.³

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-06-14T18:27:10-07:00Mar 16, 2019|Research, Wellness, Wellness Think Tank|

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About Michelle Lin, MD

EM Match Advice: How to “Swipe Right” this Interview Season

Podcast Episode

Program Director Panelists

Read and Listen to the Other EM Match Advice Episodes

EM Match Advice: Program Directors Reflect on the 2019 Residency Match

New free P3 app: PECARN Publication Prospectus

The P3 Project and Team

P3 App

Want to help?

Pediatric Point of Care Ultrasonography ALiEMU Course on Intussusception

2019-20 Wellness Think Tank: Open call for 30 passionate EM residents focused on physician wellness

Study: Thematic analysis of our “How I Work Smarter” series

Study: High Prevalence of Physician Burnout Among Emergency Medicine Residents Across the U.S.