The future of the ALiEM blog
It has been over 2 years now that my guest bloggers and I write blog posts 5 days a week. The process of writing, maintaining, and collaborating on ideas for the blog has completely changed my career. It has opened new doors, introduced me to new colleagues and friends worldwide, and clarified the direction of my career. Now as I find myself involved with more projects, I need to re-structure my time (unless someone can find me an extra hour a day to work). It was a good run though. Honestly, I’m surprised that I maintained this pace for [+]
TED Video: A lesson from spaghetti sauce on appreciating diversity
One size does not fit all. This is the crux of Malcolm Gladwell’s 18-minute talk. He gave this talk just before his book “Blink” went huge. He makes an eloquent argument for the nature of choice and happiness. There is no one perfect spaghetti sauce that fits everyone. There is no one perfect Pepsi which everyone likes. [+]
New guest blogger: Dr. Hans Rosenberg
Let's make it official. Dr. Hans Rosenberg has been contributing great content for this site. We're honored to have him officially join our blogging team! Dr. Rosenberg did his residency at the University of Ottawa, graduating in 2009. He now works at the Ottawa Hospital Emergency Department as a Consultant Staff Physician and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa. His interests in medical education are specifically related to our interaction with technology and how we use it to learn, educate and improve our practice of Emergency Medicine.
Emergency Medicine factoids on Twitter
The medical profession is slowly incorporating Twitter. If you have a Twitter account, here are some great Twitter accounts to follow: [+]
Social media in academia: Why do it?
“Why would I want to participate in Twitter and social media?” This is a common question that I get from my fellow emergency physicians. They think that social media applications are for people who have nothing better to do than to read/write about trivial personal opinions. [+]
Internet CME: EMedHome.com
Two weeks before renewing your license, you realize that you’re short 7 CME credits. Uh-oh…what to do now? Unfortunately, not enough time to go to a conference. Reading always gets boring after a while. Lie on your renewal application (NOT!)? If only there was a one-stop method of getting a variety of CME to keep you interested. [+]
First annual Medical Apps Awards: Vote now
The polls for the first annual Medical Apps Awards is now open. Voting closes April 21, 2011 @ 12:00 AM EST. General instructions (you can win various prizes) Go directly to the polls There are 3 categories that you can vote on: 1. Best Medical App for Healthcare Professionals MediBabble - a medical translation tool Doximity - a professional networking tool Medscape - comprehensive guide to drugs, interactions, diseases, & procedures Epocrates - comprehensive guide to drugs, interactions, identifying pills, & calculators DrChrono - the first EMR for the ipad 2. Best Medical App for Patients iHealth BPM w/ [+]
What’s your perfect idea for a medical app?
The American Medical Association (AMA) is harnassing the innovative power of the people in its “AMA App Challenge”. What do you think would be the perfect app for medical students, residents, and/or practicing physicians in their day-to-day life? This challenge is the perfect opportunity for all those with great app ideas but are too busy (or lazy) to do the technical, legal, and business groundwork to make the idea a reality. The down side is that once you submit the idea, AMA has full proprietary ownership of it. [+]
Article Review: Role of instructional technologies in medical education
A conference called "A 2020 Vision of Faculty Development Across the Medical Education Continuum" was held at Baylor College of Medicine in 2010. At this conference, experts convened to discuss the changing role of technologies in medical education. Their conclusions were summarized in this Academic Medicine article, which discusses 5 trends and 5 recommendations. Trends Explosion of new information: It has been postulated that the world's body of knowledge will double every 35 days by 2015. We are in an age of information explosion. Physicians will have to be able to process an ongoing onslaught of information throughout their career. Learning how [+]
Trick of the Trade: Website resource on HIV medications
At our department’s first annual UCSF High Risk Hawaii Conference 2 weeks ago, Dr. Rachel Chin taught about complications from all of the HIV drugs on the market now. It’s a virtual alphabet soup: EFV, TDF, FTC, oh my. How do you keep track of them all? [+]