IDEA Series: Team-Based Learning Activity – Fever in the Returning Traveler

The Problem

Most academic conferences are run as one-room school houses, with an audience that includes a wide variety of learners ranging from interns to highly experienced attending physicians. Engaging a group of 30 to 40 learners simultaneously can be difficult, especially when covering a particularly dense topic. Although this teaching environment presents unique challenges, it also provides an opportunity to pilot innovative techniques.

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By Alex Chorley, MD|2017-01-04T18:25:16-08:00Jun 1, 2016|IDEA series, Medical Education|

MEdIC Series: The Case of the Terrible Code

Welcome to season 3, episode 8 of the ALiEM Medical Education in Cases (MEdIC) series! Our team (Brent Thoma, Sarah Luckett-Gatopoulos, Tamara McColl, Eve Purdy, John Eicken, and Teresa Chan) is pleased to welcome you to our online community of practice where we discuss difficult medical education cases each month. As usual, the community discussion will be reviewed using qualitative research methods to produce a curated summary that will be combined with two expert responses to create a functional teaching resource.

In this month’s case a resident observes a code that is not going well. She should help, shouldn’t she? But she doesn’t want to offend the attending…

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By Brent Thoma, MD MA|2017-01-20T12:30:40-08:00May 27, 2016|MEdIC series|

“Not all readers are leaders. But all leaders are readers.”
– Harry S. Truman

Dr. Lainie Yarris is the Program Director at Oregon Health and Sciences University Emergency Medicine Residency as well as the Co-Director of the Emergency Medicine Education Scholarship Fellowship and Co-Director for Faculty Development for OHSU School of Medicine. Beyond these multiple roles she has most readily known for her leadership in Emergency Medicine Education research, authoring over 40 publications and acting as a mentor for the MERC program, in addition to serving as an editor on multiple journals. She is an inspiration and role model for those of us in the Emergency Medicine education community. We are pleased to have her give us her book recommendations.

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By Taku Taira, MD|2016-12-14T15:38:24-08:00May 22, 2016|Beyond the ED, Book Club|

ALiEM Bookclub | Beyond the ED – Recommendations by Dr. Maria Moreira

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
– Haruki Murakami

Dr. Maria Moreira is the Program Director of the Denver Health Emergency Medicine Residency. In addition to her role in her own program, she has been a fixture in the national medical education landscape. She is the chair of the County Program committee and is a member of the CORD executive board. She brings a humility and gentleness to everything that she does that belies her depth of thought and leadership skills. She is a leader, a role model, and someone we are happy to call a colleague. We are pleased to have her contribute to this edition of the ALiEM Bookclub: Beyond the ED.

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By Taku Taira, MD|2019-02-19T18:29:55-08:00May 20, 2016|Book Club|

Congratulations to the winners of 2016 ALiEM Awards!

Congratulations to the winners of the first ever 2016 ALiEM Awards! We had great submissions and the decision making process was tough, but ultimately we felt that these winners represent the true spirit of medical education and digital innovation!

Most of all, congratulations to all the submissions, we are proud of all you do for the medical education community!

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By Nikita Joshi, MD|2017-10-25T22:42:22-07:00May 17, 2016|Academic|

ALiEM BookClub | Lean In: Women, Work, and The Will to Lead

“We still have a problem” Sheryl Sandberg alarms us in her influential 2010 TED Talk, Why we have too few women leaders. “Women are not making it to the top of any profession anywhere in the world.” While women are getting more college degrees and graduate degrees, and more women are entering the workforce than ever before, when it comes to leadership positions, women do not come close to matching their male counterparts. “The blunt truth is that men still run the world.”

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By Jordana Haber, MD|2020-04-20T19:47:11-07:00May 13, 2016|Book Club, Podcasts|

MEdIC Series: The Case of the Fibbing First Year – Expert Review and Curated Commentary

The Case of the Fibbing First Year outlined a scenario where a first year resident fibs about the history he just completed. What did the ALiEM community think of this case? This month the MEdIC team (Brent Thoma, Sarah Luckett-Gatopoulos, Tamara McColl, Eve Purdy, John Eicken, and Teresa Chan), hosted a MEdIC series discussion around this issue with insights from the ALiEM community. We are proud to present to you the Curated Community Commentary and our 3 expert opinions. Thank-you to all our participants for contributing to the very rich discussions last week.