Education Theory Made Practical: All 8 Volumes Free
After eight years, 240 faculty members, and countless Slack conversations across time zones, the ALiEM Faculty Incubator has come to a close. And with it, we're celebrating the completion of something I'm incredibly proud to share: the Education Theory Made Practical book series—8 volumes, 77 educational theories and frameworks, now freely available to educators worldwide [download at ALiEM Library]. We became victims of our own success. The mentors and community members we nurtured? They're [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Infantile Enigma
A previously healthy 4-week-old born full-term presented to the emergency department with possible umbilical drainage and a new onset rash in the left lower abdominal region. The patient [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: What is in my Child’s Mouth?
A 16-month-old male with no significant past medical history presented with a chief complaint of bleeding from the mouth. The patient’s mother looked inside his mouth and described [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: A Rare Cause of Dyspnea
A 73-year-old female with past medical history significant for Roux-en-Y gastric bypass 14 years prior complicated by gastro-jejunal ulcers, rheumatoid arthritis on daily prednisone for six months, coronary [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Wake-up Call
The patient is a 53-year-old anuric female with a history of kidney/liver transplant, ESRD on hemodialysis, diabetes mellitus, and atrial fibrillation with recent failed cardioversion who presents to the Emergency Department with one week of worsening generalized weakness. She reports dyspnea on exertion which improves with rest, generalized abdominal pain, and mild vomiting. Her medications include escitalopram 20 mg daily, [+]
ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl: Where There’s Air, There’s Fire
What chemical substance is used to produce this smoke screen? Cesium Polyvinyl Chloride White Phosphorous Wood Ash [Image from the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Wikimedia [+]
ALiEM AIR Series | GI Module (2024)
Welcome to the AIR GI Module! After carefully reviewing all relevant posts in the past 12 months from the top 50 sites of the Digital Impact Factor [1], the ALiEM AIR Team [+]
ACMT Visual Pearl: Seabather’s Eruption: The unexpected beach burn
What organism causes seabather’s eruption? Jellyfish Nematodes Portuguese man-of-war Stonefish [Author’s own image] [+]
How I Educate Series: Tarlan Hedayati, MD
This week’s How I Educate post features Dr. Tarlan Hedayati, the Chair of Education at Cook County Hospital. Dr. Hedayati spends approximately 90% of her shifts with learners, including emergency medicine residents, off-service residents, and medical students. She describes her practice environment as a large, public, urban, Level 1 trauma center. Below she shares with us her approach to teaching learners on shift. What delivery methods do use when teaching on shift? Some of [+]
How I Work Smarter: Gus M. Garmel, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
One word that best describes how you work? Compassionately Current mobile device iPhone Computer MacMini What is something you are working on now? Multiple projects, presently Microaggressions & Civility in the Workplace, [+]
How I Work Smarter: Christopher Lloyd, DO
One word that best describes how you work? Opportunistically Current mobile device iPhone 12 Pro Computer iPhone Xr What is something you are working on now? Qualitative analysis on resident perceptions of feedback [+]
How We Have Kept and Will Continue to Keep Going | Summary of The Leader’s Library Discussion
Last month, 30 people from 4 different countries and 15 different states + Puerto Rico, ranging from their early twenties to mid sixties, bravely jumped into a two-and-a-half day conversation on Slack about [+]
How I Work Smarter: Rodney Fullmer, DO, MBS
One word that best describes how you work? Passionately Current mobile device Samsung Galaxy 9 (sorry not an apple/mac guy) Computer PC- Dell XPS What is something you are working on now? I am working on two very cool education projects right now within our ED. I am creating a new curriculum for our senior ED residents at Swedish called MastER's Class. The curriculum aims to prepare senior ED residents for life post-residency; looking at [+]
Influenza Update: IDSA 2018 Guidelines Detailed Review
Symptomatic influenza A and B infections cause worldwide morbidity and mortality every year. Annual vaccination remains the greatest prophylactic measure, but the vaccine is not 100% effective due [+]
Post It Pearls initiative is moving from Twitter to Instagram
My 2017 new year’s resolution was to create brief educational pearls on shift called Post It Pearls, which I published to Twitter. I have increasingly noticed that many of my target learners are not [+]
Instagram: The next frontier for ALiEM in digital education
For almost a decade, ALiEM has been on the forefront of digital education in emergency medicine. By leveraging the power of social media, we have been able to provide quality teaching pearls to [+]
