Built a 20-person worldwide educator panel in two hours

Yesterday I had the pleasure of sharing my thoughts to an enthusiastic crowd of UCSF preclinical medical students on one of my favorite topics “Technology and Social Media in Emergency Medicine”. This is the perfect target audience to teach about developing a workflow habit for keeping up with digital information, since they are only starting to grow their clinical knowledge foundation.

On the morning of my noon talk, I regretted not recruiting some fellow FOAMed (Free Open Access Meducation) supporters to email me their thoughts about why social media is here to stay in medical education. How great would it have been to share the collective thoughts of leaders in this area?

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-01-28T22:04:39-08:00Feb 28, 2013|Medical Education, Social Media & Tech|

MOOC: Clinical problem solving with Dr. Lucey

According to Wikipedia, MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course, was coined by Dave Cormier (@davecormier) in 2008 during a course called “Connectivism and Connective Knowledge” in a course led by George Siemens (@gsiemens) and Stephen Downes (@oldaily). All three are educators from Canada who specialize in online learning, learning and technology, and connectivism. As the name implies the course is open to thousands of people online. Although thousands of people sign up only a very small percentage finish the course.

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By Javier Benitez, MD|2018-01-30T01:59:04-08:00Feb 23, 2013|Medical Education|

Writing a Medical Simulation Case

It can be a daunting task to write a medical simulation cases. Regardless of prior experience in simulation, writing cases is a different skill set than programming or working a high fidelity simulator. It’s more similar to writing a play– at times an impromptu play!

What is a Medical Simulation Case?

It usually entails a patient encounter with a healthcare provider (learner) where an event occurs, and the learner is expected to perform actions. After some time, or after certain actions are performed, the facilitator stops the simulation, and debriefing ensues.

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By Nikita Joshi, MD|2016-11-11T18:40:57-08:00Feb 22, 2013|Medical Education, Simulation|

A Tea-Steeping or i-Doc Model for Medical Education?

There was a great article written by Dr. Brian Hodges (@BDHodges1) and published in Academic Medicine¹ in 2010. Dr. Cunningham (@amcunningham) provided the link via Twitter in a discussion about different models of competence in medical education.

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By Javier Benitez, MD|2016-11-11T18:41:09-08:00Feb 17, 2013|Education Articles, Medical Education|

Patwari Academy videos: Searching the literature to answer Qs

Do you use a PICO method to answering a clinical question using the medical literature?

Patient / problem
Intervention
Comparison
Outcome

This two-part series provides an introduction in how to search the medical literature to answer your clinical question. This provides a concise overview of epidemiology and statistics.

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-01-28T22:06:15-08:00Feb 17, 2013|Medical Education, Patwari Videos|

Making Your Match Rank List

This is the moment your whole medical school career has been hinging upon:

Match Rank List Time!

It is time to get serious and come up with a rank list that maximizes your chances of getting your first choice residency. Ranking programs is a personal decision making process, because everyone has different priorities and life circumstances. Therefore, no one piece of advice applies to everyone. This is a run down of my own personal thoughts of what is important.

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By Nikita Joshi, MD|2020-04-20T19:48:30-07:00Feb 15, 2013|Medical Education|

Getting serious about Serious Gaming!

Many of our childhood memories revolve around late nights playing Mario Brothers. Everybody remembers their mother yelling to stop playing so much, or else their fingers would fall off. Many of us outgrew video games, only to be sucked back in by Angry Birds and Farmville. Now there’s a new generation who experience life with an iPad glued to their hand from the womb. And then there are people like my fiance who belong to guilds in World of Warcraft.

For the purposes of this write up, I want to focus on Serious Games as electronic software as opposed to table top or board games such as Monopoly (or Dungeons and Dragons for the geeks out there!).

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By Nikita Joshi, MD|2019-02-19T18:05:05-08:00Feb 8, 2013|Medical Education|