Hot off the Press: Talking about Web 2.0 in Emergency Medicine

I am humbled to be included and quoted in a recent Annals of EM commentary about Web 2.0 in Emergency Medicine. Hey, my “street credibility” just went up just by having my name in the same article with the likes of:

Mike Cadogan (Life in the Fast Lane)
Joe Lex (Free Emergency Medicine Talks)
Chris Nickson (Life in the Fast Lane)
Cliff Reid (ResusMe)
Scott Weingart (EMCrit)

You can read the whole article, which is free to download by the journal.

By Michelle Lin, MD|2026-06-16T16:02:44-07:00Apr 8, 2012|Medical Education, Social Media & Tech|

Modern EM: Case 3- Get your phones out

Sometimes on off-service morning table rounds, I like to close my tired eyes and focus my ears past the voice of the attending to hear the chorus of hundreds of pieces of paper flipping, shuffling, crinkling, and folding. It’s one way to pass the time when surgeons debate over issues they don’t already know the answers to. Another is to get your phone out, and help answer the questions with them.

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By Timothy Peck, MD|2016-11-11T18:51:02-08:00Apr 2, 2012|Social Media & Tech|

Modern EM: Case 1 and 2 – Strep Throat

A sister and brother, aged 7 and 14, respectively present with pharyngitis. The 7F has sore throat, cough, fever, and post-tussive vomiting for 1 day. She has posterior pharyngeal erythema, no lymphadenopathy, no exudate, no petechiae, and looks like a viral URI.

The 14M had culture confirmed GAS pharyngitis 3 weeks ago, was treated with PCN-VK and symptoms resolved. Now, he’s in the ED with signs and symptoms of pharyngitis again, including dysphagia, fever, cough, posterior pharyngeal erythema, swollen tonsils, LAD, and petechiae on his hard palate.

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By Timothy Peck, MD|2017-03-05T14:18:48-08:00Mar 26, 2012|ENT, Social Media & Tech|

Last month, I announced Dr. Timothy Peck (Beth Israel Deaconess EM resident) as one of the winners of the Blog Incubator Contest. Starting today and for the next 2 Mondays, he’ll be posting a 3-part series, which will eventually end up on his blog “Modern EM” at ModernEM.blogspot.com. His blog will feature examples of how Web 2.0 influenced the management of specific patient encounters. Also guests will be allowed to contribute mini-case presentations where they will report how a Web 2.0 activity changed how they managed a patient.

The blog is still in development phase. In the meantime, you are in for a treat. His upcoming blog entries are great examples demonstrating the impact of online and app-based clinical decision support tools in the ED.

Let’s welcome Tim to the blogging community!

By Michelle Lin, MD|2016-11-11T18:51:03-08:00Mar 26, 2012|Social Media & Tech|

Video: Khan Academy and digital whiteboards

Dr. Rob Rogers (University of Maryland) is at it again with another brilliant installment of his Medical Education Videos. This 10-minute video covers the Khan Academy and how you too can create an interactive digital whiteboard for education. He talks about Doceri ($50 single-user access) and Splashtop ($19.99 for the iPad app).

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2019-01-28T22:34:42-08:00Mar 19, 2012|Medical Education, Social Media & Tech|

Video: Crash course on Prezi

Dr. Rob Rogers has started a great series of videos which highlight resources and tools which medical educators may find useful and innovative. This video takes you on a guided tour through making a Prezi presentation. Although I am still torn about using Prezi as a delivery tool because of the excessive motion-based transitions, I do like such features as:

Really professional looking templates
The presentations can live online and/or on your desktop
Ability to easily embed videos
Ability to see your entire presentation on the canvas
Allows more flexibility in content delivery
It just looks cool.

You can look for more excellent videos on the Academic Emergency Medicine Education Masters site. Hey maybe you can next teach people how to use Google Reader, Evernote, Dropbox!

By Michelle Lin, MD|2026-06-16T16:02:53-07:00Feb 27, 2012|Social Media & Tech|

Live-blogging: UCSF High Risk EM Hawaii conference

Today is the pre-day for our department’s 2nd annual High Risk Emergency Medicine conference in Hawaii. The day’s focus is on ultrasonography. Keep a lookout below as I try to live-blog some of the clinical pearls that I glean from the day (using Google Docs).

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By Michelle Lin, MD|2026-06-16T16:02:55-07:00Feb 15, 2012|Social Media & Tech|

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