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). [+]
Blog incubation project: New 2 winners!
And the winners of the first ever EM Blog Incubator competition are… Dr. Jim Campagna (Emergency physician at St Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, NY) and Dr. Timothy Peck (Beth Israel Deaconess EM resident in Boston, MA) [+]
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Blog Incubator Experiment: Be the next big thing in blogging
There are many health and technology incubators out there, which help to build start-up companies into thriving and profitable organizations. Why can’t we do this for those who are thinking about starting a blog? In 2009 when I was thinking about starting the blog, I had lots of support and encouragement. I slowly grew my readership by word-of-mouth and things really got going when the folks over at Life in the Fast Lane, Poison Review, EMCrit, and so many more graciously pointed their readers toward my site. [+]
Video: Social Media in Medicine – What is it and why?
From LifeInTheFastLane.com’s illustrious Dr. Mike Cadogan. These were the slides from his Social Media in Medicine talk at the recent USC Essentials Conference. It’s time more physicians get involved and join the conversations that are taking place on social media. Join now. [+]
Crowdsourcing all of your burning questions about EM
Have you noticed that on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire”, asking the audience as a lifeline almost always results in the right answer (over 90% of the time)? Dr. David Thorisson (Lund University, Scandinavia) recently approached me with a novel idea of doing the same for Emergency Medicine questions. These questions are currently posted to a public Google Docs document, which allows anyone to post and answer questions. [+]
G-Advising: Using Google Hangout to advise medical students
Get an advisor. Don’t try to navigate medical school and residency on your own. This is key especially during medical school as you try to get through and around the mounds of reading, paperwork, options, and pitfalls. If you are interested in Emergency Medicine (EM) as a career, that means getting one or several great EM advisors. Don’t rely on non-EM faculty to give you any insight into EM. Inevitably, I have found that they give incomplete or slightly skewed perspectives about the pros and cons of EM. [+]
Brief survey: Need your help with my promotions!
With all of the advances in technology and social media, the “old school” world of traditional academia doesn’t know what to do with medical professionals who incorporate technologies into their educational practices. To justify these past 2 years of blogging during my free time, I wanted to collect data on who my readers are and the impact of my blog (if any). I could sure use a few minutes of your time and input to help with my promotions process. Let’s push traditional academia to change with the times. Thanks a bunch. [+]
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.