The Superbowl of Blogs: Vote us for "Best Clinical Sciences Blog"

Medgadget annually hosts a contest for the best medical blogs. It’s the Superbowl of blogs.

Our blog was nominated for the Best New Medical Blog last year, but got our butt kicked.

This year, we’re honored to be a finalist in the Best Clinical Sciences Blog category. That’s the great news. Unlucky for us, we are in the same category as the juggernauts EMCrit (also nominated in the overall Best Medical Blog category) and Resus.M.E. I do love the fact that the EM specialty is dominating with 3 finalists in this list of 5.

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2026-06-16T16:03:21-07:00Feb 5, 2011|Social Media & Tech|

Need your help! Favorite medical apps

So, I volunteered to give a talk for the UCSF Office of Graduate Medical Education WAAAAY back in early 2010 on “There’s an App for That: Key Smart Phone Applications for Surviving Residency“. Somehow the lecture date has snuck up on me and it’s next Tuesday! I thought it was a small gathering, but it turns out it’s not. Plus, I keep getting school-wide emails reminding all the residents and fellows to attending!

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2016-11-11T19:00:13-08:00Jan 13, 2011|Social Media & Tech|

Hot off the press: A summary of EM content in social media

The ever-creative and ambitious masterminds at Life in the Fast Lane has just launched a new feature called LITFL Review. This weekly review will highlight all-things EM in the social media world. Do they ever sleep over there in Australia?! Do they somehow have 25 hours in their day?

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2026-06-16T16:03:25-07:00Jan 11, 2011|Medical Education, Social Media & Tech|

Pros and Cons of Social Media Use in Medicine

The American Medical Association (AMA) just released a policy on Social Media and Medical Professionalism. It focuses more on the negative aspects of social media, and much can be averted by just using common sense:

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2016-11-11T19:00:19-08:00Nov 29, 2010|Medical Education, Social Media & Tech|

What’s on my mind: EBM Resource

Keeping up with the EM literature is difficult, particularly when we’re also trying to stay ahead of the curve in our own subspecialties (Healthcare Simulation and Medical Education in my case). Last week I was listening to Scott Weingart’s EMCRIT Podcast and at the very end of the show he mentioned a new EBM resource: TheNNT.

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By Demian Szyld, MD EdM|2017-03-05T14:18:35-08:00Sep 30, 2010|Medical Education, Social Media & Tech|

New guest blogger: Dr. Stella Yiu!

Welcome to our new superstar, educator-extraordinaire, guest blogger, Dr. Stella Yiu. Today’s post is her first (of hopefully many).

After graduating residency from the University of Ottawa, Stella has been working as a staff physician at University Health Network in Toronto. She is involved in curriculum design in undergraduate emergency medicine clerkship at the University of Toronto.

Welcome, Stella!

By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-09-10T14:04:29-07:00Sep 22, 2010|Life|

New guest blogger: Fred Wu!

Welcome to our new superstar guest blogger, Fred Wu. Today’s post is his first (of hopefully many).

Fred is the Lead PA in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Kaweah Delta Medical Center in Visalia, CA. After graduating in 2004, he has been practicing community emergency medicine in Central California. His interests include prehospital care and wilderness medicine, with an education emphasis in both. He also coordinates PA/NP training in the department as well as an EM lecture series, which hosts guest speakers from across the country.

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-09-10T14:04:37-07:00Sep 14, 2010|Life|