Sneak peek at ALiEMU: Free on-demand MOOC-like courses featuring the AIR Series

We are incredibly excited to announce the development of our newest project — ALiEMU. This top-secret project has been in the works for only 3 months, but has gained incredible momentum thanks to our all-star team, led by Dr. Chris Gaafary, who is our ALiEMU Chief of Design and Development… while he is not busy being an incoming EM chief resident at the University of Tennessee.

What is ALiEMU? The one-liner is: A free educational website which hosts free, on-demand e-courses, featuring the AIR series as the inaugural course.

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2018-01-30T01:55:29-08:00May 26, 2015|Approved Instructional Resources (AIR series), Medical Education, Social Media & Tech|

Design Challenge | An ALiEM Fellows Project

Design thinking is a concept that has recently taken the business world by storm, and more recently it has begun to creep into other fields, like education! At the core of it, the idea behind design thinking is to encourage designers to think about how they might solve problems that are experienced in the world – to think like engineers and architects, and focus on building solutions for end users. As a part of their fellowship, the 2014-15 ALiEM Fellows (Scott Kobner, BS and Sam Shaikh, DO) were each tasked with a different design job a few months ago. Click below to read more about their projects.

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By Teresa Chan, MD, MHPE|2017-11-06T18:50:26-08:00May 21, 2015|Medical Education, Social Media & Tech|

APPLY NOW: Essentials of Emergency Medicine & Education Fellowship Program

Who has NOT heard of the Essentials of Emergency Medicine (EEM) conference? It is one of the largest live EM educational conferences in the world with over 2,000 attendees that I have had the pleasure to speak at a few times. The conference planners, led by Dr. Paul Jhun and Dr. Mel Herbert, are creating an amazing opportunity for U.S. EM residents to attend their upcoming EEM conference at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas (October 13-15, 2015).

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2017-03-05T14:18:36-08:00May 12, 2015|Medical Education, Social Media & Tech|

Announcing the ALiEM-AgileMD Educational Design Fellowship

Based on the successes of our 2014-15 ALiEM-EMRA (for medical students), ALiEM-CORD (for residents), and ALiEM-AAEM Young Physicians fellowships, we are thrilled to be launching the 2015 ALiEM-AgileMD Educational Design Fellowship! The application process for this virtual fellowship is now open.

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2018-01-30T02:28:03-08:00Apr 9, 2015|ALiEM Cards, Social Media & Tech|

Drug interactions with warfarin: Don’t bleed me out!

Warfarin is one of those drugs that always sends off little red warning lights when I see it on a patient’s medication list. Am I going to do something that will make this patient bleed out? Which drugs interact with warfarin?

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By Delphine Huang, MD|2016-12-19T13:00:15-08:00Mar 5, 2015|Expert Peer Reviewed (Clinical), Social Media & Tech, Tox & Medications|

ALiEM Chief Resident Incubator: Mentoring the Future Leaders in EM

We at ALiEM are incredibly excited to publicly announce the 2015-16 ALiEM Chief Resident (CR) Incubator. Every single year, I have seen Chief Residents struggle with their new role as a near-peer leader in the residency program. Because Chief Residents are generally high-functioning individuals, they usually figure it out as the year progresses. Why is it that we can’t we do better and prepare them for what is to come?

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-01-28T21:44:28-08:00Feb 18, 2015|Medical Education, Social Media & Tech|

What is Open Access? Video chat with Dr. Martin Eve

Open Access is not just an issue that plagues scientists and clinical practitioners. Allowing access to scholarly publications and academic work is also widely debated in the humanities as well. We found this out as we sat down and discussed Open Access with Dr. Martin Eve (@martin_eve).

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By Nikita Joshi, MD|2018-01-30T01:52:45-08:00Jan 31, 2015|Academic, Social Media & Tech|