Discussing Annals EM article: Social Media and Physician Learning

I was delighted to see the News and Perspectives piece in this month’s Annals of Emergency Medicine about “Social Media and Physician Learning” (free PDF). I had totally forgotten that Jan Greene, the author, had called to talk with me several months ago. In the piece, she discusses many of the issues with which I struggle:

Is peer review good or bad?
What is the role of blog and podcast sites in the future of medical education?
With the ease of how anyone can be “published” on blogs, how can one decide on the trustworthiness of open educational resources such as FOAM?
Can or should social media education practices be held up to the rigorous scientific standards of original research?

Here are some noteworthy quotes:

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-01-28T21:52:47-08:00Nov 5, 2013|Expert Peer Reviewed (Clinical), Medical Education, Social Media & Tech|

Patwari Academy videos: Testicular torsion and acute scrotal pain

There are several causes for the acutely painful scrotum. In the follow two short tutorial videos, Dr. Rahul Patwari reviews common causes, which include testicular torsion, epididymitis, orchitis, torsion of the testicular appendix, and testicular masses.

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-01-28T21:53:01-08:00Nov 3, 2013|Genitourinary, Patwari Videos|

Patwari Academy Videos: Evidence Based Medicine (part 5)

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In this fifth and final installment of the Evidence Based Medicine series, Dr. Rahul Patwari reviews the concepts of: distribution of the means (with case examples), confidence intervals, accuracy, precision, and the student t-test (with an example).

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-01-28T21:53:12-08:00Oct 27, 2013|Patwari Videos|

Powerpoint Slide Redesign: Best Examples from IEMTC13 Workshop

At the 2013 International EM Teaching Course yesterday, Dr. Stacey Poznanski and I gave a workshop on “Powerpoint Resuscitation” to address all the widespread pitfalls which cause “death by powerpoint”. Here are the winners from the workshop competition, illustrating great examples of the coherence, redundancy, and multimedia principles that we reviewed. The slide examples are in pairs in a before-workshop and after-workshop format. Amazing what star educators can get done in a 60 minute workshop!

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2017-03-05T14:18:37-08:00Oct 24, 2013|Medical Education, Social Media & Tech|

P-Video: Rule of 15 in anion gap metabolic acidosis

You have a patient with an anion gap of 30 and bicarbonate of 10 mEq/L. You also determine on VBG that the patient’s pCO2 is 25 mmHg. What trick of the trade can you use to quickly determine whether this low pCO2 is an appropriate compensation of the primary metabolic acidosis? Dr. Jeremy Faust and Dr. Corey Slovis explains the quick “Rule of 15”.

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-01-28T21:53:37-08:00Oct 22, 2013|Endocrine-Metabolic, Tricks of the Trade|

Patwari Academy Videos: Evidence Based Medicine (part 4)

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Dr. Rahul Patwari is a one-man statistics teaching machine. In part 4 of this Evidence Based Medicine series, he reviews advance concepts in statistics and calculations including: case-fatality rates, crude mortality rates, specific-mortality rates, years of potential life lost, and direct and indirect age adjustments.

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-01-28T21:54:04-08:00Oct 20, 2013|Patwari Videos|

P-Video: Sources for pediatric and adult fevers

Dr. Jeremy Faust is back with another P-video, which stands for Paucis Videos (paucis means “few” or “brief” in Latin) much like the Paucis Verbis cards. These P-videos are short video-based educational pearls for the practicing physician with a focus on Emergency Medicine and Critical Care. Here Jeremy shares two mnemonics, LUCAS and FEBRILE, to help you remember the common causes for fevers in pediatric and adult patients, respectively.

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-01-28T21:53:48-08:00Oct 17, 2013|Infectious Disease, P-videos, Pediatrics|