MEdIC: The Case of the Overly Attentive Attending – Expert Review and Curated Community Commentary

The Case of the Overly Attentive Attending outlined an egregious scenario of a staff physician displaying sexually aggressive behaviour towards his junior resident, Samantha. The case also focuses on her inner struggle following the incident regarding how to proceed after being the victim of sexual harassment. This month, the MEdIC team (Tamara McColl, Teresa Chan, Sarah Luckett-Gatopoulos, Eve Purdy, John Eicken, and Brent Thoma), hosted a discussion around this case with insights from the ALiEM community. We are proud to present to you the Curated Community Commentary and our 2 expert opinions. Thank-you to all participants for contributing to the very rich and very serious discussions surrounding this case!

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By Tamara McColl, MD FRCPC|2026-06-16T16:10:27-07:00Nov 11, 2016|MEdIC series|

New ALiEM turquoise socks now for sale

In anticipation of the upcoming holidays, we have a stock of brand new ALiEM turquoise socks for sale. We gave them out to our core team members at the recent American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Scientific Assembly in 2016. Needless to say, they were a big hit. These are now available for online purchase (along with the remaining few blue ones that we will retire after this last stock runs out). Currently they are only available for purchase and shipment in the United States. Come join our extended ALiEM family!

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-01-28T21:39:24-08:00Oct 31, 2016|Academic|

MEdIC Series: The Case of the Overly Attentive Attending

Welcome to season 4, episode 2 of the ALiEM Medical Education in Cases (MEdIC) series! Our team (Drs. Tamara McColl, Teresa Chan, John Eicken, Sarah Luckett-Gatopoulos, Eve Purdy, and Brent Thoma) is pleased to welcome you to our online community of practice where we discuss the practice of academic medicine!

In this month’s case, a junior resident feels violated and shamed after a sexually aggressive encounter with an orthopedic attending physician.

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By Tamara McColl, MD FRCPC|2017-01-20T12:30:40-08:00Oct 28, 2016|MEdIC series|

IDEA Series: The “Knowledge Bomb” Highlights Clinically Relevant Research

The Problem

Residents continually face the challenge of keeping up to date with relevant medical literature in the midst of the rigors of completing medical residency. In addition, application of new medical knowledge obtained from reviewing recent research can be challenging and is a difficult skill to teach.

Residency provides a unique experience for individual learners based on each learner’s personal interests, interactions with other learners and faculty, and patient encounters. Often, residents achieve their best research and article discovery when prompted by specific patient encounters. A forum for individual residents to share knowledge gained from research prompted by these encounters is needed.

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By George Hughes, MD|2026-06-16T16:10:16-07:00Oct 24, 2016|IDEA series|

52 Articles in 52 Weeks (2nd edition, 2016)

Maintaining lifelong learning is challenging, especially when trying to keep up with all of the journal publications in emergency medicine (EM). In 2013, we published a compilation of 52 journal articles, which interns could read over a 52-week period, at an average pace of 1 journal article per week. In the list below, we present an updated compilation for the “52 Articles in 52 Weeks” initiative.

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By Emily Junck, MD|2019-02-19T19:00:56-08:00Oct 19, 2016|Emergency Medicine, Medical Education|

ALiEM Book Club: On The Move

“I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human disposition, going with our powers of language, consciousness of self, and autobiographical memory.” —Oliver Sacks, On the Move

Oliver Sacks has been many things in his life—physician, writer, researcher, drug addict, power lifter, motorcycle lover. He writes about all of these experiences as they have arced across the course of his much varied life in his memoir, On the Move [Amazon]. In this colorful autobiography, Sacks bobs and weaves through his own life, at times focusing in on the smallest detail, and at others zooming back for the 10,000 foot benefit of hindsight. Parts of the book are starkly innocent, while others border on frank arrogance. He demonstrates a complexity of personal characteristics that is at once believable and larger-than-life.

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By Arlene Chung, MD|2016-11-11T19:46:01-08:00Oct 16, 2016|Book Club|

Introducing CME for ALiEM via FOAMbase

Ever wish you could get Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit for the Free Open Access Meducation (FOAM) you already consume? We are excited to announce that 10 ALiEM articles are now available for AMA PRA Category 1 CME. This is a pilot program in collaboration with FOAMbase and EB Medicine. There is great content on trauma, geriatrics, pediatrics, critical care, and more. We think CME for FOAM is going to be a great way to increase sustainability for FOAM authors while keeping FOAM 100% free and open access.

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By Benjamin Azan, MD|2026-06-16T16:10:20-07:00Oct 15, 2016|CME, Medical Education, Social Media & Tech|