10 10, 2017

APPLY NOW: 2018 Essentials of Emergency Medicine (EEM) Education Fellowship Program

2017-10-10T06:35:18+00:00

October 10th, 2017 | Medical Education, Social Media & Tech |0 Comments

By: Michelle Lin, MD

The Essentials of Emergency Medicine (EEM) conference is in May 2018, but opportunities start NOW. This conference is one of the largest live EM educational conferences in the world with over 2,000 attendees, and will once again be held at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas! Led by Dr. Paul Jhun, conference organizers are offering an amazing opportunity for EM residents anywhere in the world to serve as an EEM Fellow for the next EEM conference May 15-17, 2018.
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18 08, 2017

Education Theory Made Practical (Volume 1): An ALiEM Faculty Incubator eBook Project

2017-08-26T13:21:25+00:00

August 18th, 2017 | Faculty Development, Incubators, Medical Education |0 Comments

By: Teresa Chan, MD

education theory made practical cover page The ALiEM Team is happy to announce yet another eBook publication: the first volume in the Education Theory Made Practical series. This book was a labor of love written by the inaugural 2016-17 Faculty Incubator class. We are so very proud of all our Faculty Incubator alumni who made this happen. Their hard work has been compiled in this FREE, peer-reviewed eBook. We sincerely feel that it will be useful for all the educators out there, wrestling with the issue of integrating theory into practice.

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9 08, 2017

Finish Strong: Top 10 Things to Master Before Graduating EM Residency

2017-08-09T03:14:28+00:00

August 9th, 2017 | Faculty Development, Incubators, Medical Education |2 Comments

By: Derek Monette, MD and Aileen Newmyer, MD |Editors: Allison Trop, MD

If you are a senior resident, this post is for you! Right now you’re juggling an array of responsibilities. From adjusting to your new leadership roles in the Department to applying to jobs and fellowships, it’s easy to let that pesky procedure you have always struggled with or confusing ECG finding slip by you. To help you solidify your skills this year, we have come up with a list of things to master before the end of the academic year. Take a look, and tailor this list to your background and training. Come up with a list of your own, share it with your mentors, and check off each one. Graduation will be here before you know it!
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7 08, 2017

Building a Cohesive Residency Program: Top 10 Strategies to Engage Residents

2017-08-05T20:11:29+00:00

August 7th, 2017 | Incubators, Medical Education |0 Comments

By: Katie Wells, MD MPH, Adeeb Saleh, DO and Mansoor Siddiqui, MD |Editors: Tanner Gronowski, DO

Welcome to the beginning of the most exciting and terrifying time in your residency — the start to a new year! To help start the year off right a group of chief residents from across the country, through the ALiEM Chief Resident Incubator, have gotten together and compiled a list of ways for chief residents (and other resident leaders) to engage residents early to hopefully make this the best year yet of residency.

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21 07, 2017

ALiEM’s Greatest Hits for Interns: A Curated Collection of High-Yield Topics

2017-07-20T23:22:10+00:00

July 21st, 2017 | Cardiovascular, Critical Care/ Resus, Gastrointestinal, Medical Education, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Pediatrics, Tox & Medications, Ultrasound for the Win |0 Comments

By: Jeffrey Shih, MD, RDMS

Congratulations, you’ve made it! On July 1, thousands of medical students across the country made the transition to becoming Emergency Medicine residents. It was a particularly competitive year for Emergency Medicine, with 99.7% of first-year spots filled despite a whopping 2,047 positions being offered in 2017 (up by 152 spots compared to last year).¹ Now begins the most crucial 3 or 4 years of your medical training that will prepare you for the rest of your career in Emergency Medicine.

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21 06, 2017

Academic Primer Series and Curated Collections for Educators: Important Papers for Medical Educators

2017-10-13T15:06:00+00:00

June 21st, 2017 | Incubators, Medical Education |0 Comments

By: Andrew King, MD FACEP

Members and mentors of the inaugural, 2016-17 ALiEM Faculty Incubator authored 9 narrative reviews in the Academic Primer Series and Curated Collections for Educators on several important medical education topics, which highlight the most important literature and their defined importance for junior educators and faculty developers. To ensure broad compendiums of articles were obtained on each subject, collections of papers were augmented via an open call for additional papers using Twitter. Subsequently, a selection panel comprised of both junior and seasoned educators utilized a 3-round modified Delphi process to identify the best, most relevant papers for medical educators.

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1 06, 2017

IDEA Series: Use of Online Interactive Platform to Incorporate Board Review into Conference

2017-06-01T07:04:35+00:00

June 1st, 2017 | IDEA series, Medical Education |0 Comments

By: Brendan Munzer, MD, Rob Huang, MD and Mary Haas, MD |Editors: Mary Haas, MD

The Problem

Every year, emergency medicine (EM) residents take the In-Training Exam (ITE) to test their medical knowledge and predict the likelihood of passing their official written board examination upon completion of residency training. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires all EM residencies to include weekly didactics in order to build the knowledge base of residents and facilitate preparation for the written and oral American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) or American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine (AOBEM) examinations. These didactics, however, often consists of traditional lecture formats. In contrast, according to the testing effect, we know that taking a test on material improves retention more than just passively hearing or reading the information alone.
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