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Smart Phones, Pagers, and Distractions
I love the inflammatory, attention getting title of this NPR piece:"Hospitals Warn Smartphones Can Distract Doctors."The most distracting part of my job, by far, is my pager. I did a lumbar puncture...
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EM Lyceum
EM Lyceum is a site created by NYU/Bellevue residents and moderated by one of my mentors, Dr. Anand Swaminathan.The site poses a monthly series of questions about common topics in the ED like RSI and...
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SAEM's Emergency Medicine Milestones
The SAEM released its educational milestones on their website this week; these are a comprehensive set of skills that every emergency physician should possess by the time they graduate residency. The...
View ArticleCall for Case Contributors to Modern EM
Want to write a case for Modern EM?Modern EM is a blog in which case presentations are used to illustrate how Web 2.o resources can be used in the management of our patients.Thanks to the support of...
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Both Sides of the Table
If I may, a piece of advice to the new intern class of emergency medicine residents.When you are on your surgery rotations, remember that you are an EM resident. If you operate on a patient, ask the...
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Northeast EM Med Student Symposium - September 29th, 2012
Calling all Med Students:The 3rd annual Northeast Emergency Medicine Student Symposium will be held on September 29th, 2012 at 12 noon to 5 PM on the Harvard Medical School Longwood Campus in...
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Are you a FOAMer?
Mike Cadogan and friends have taking a historic step in medical education.FOAM is a concept of free open access meducation.Help make medical education social, smart, and free.Support FOAM here,and...
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Web 3.0
Many in academic medicine have not yet accepted the values of the social media revolution. Many tell me that it is clumsy, disjointed, and the dilution of information makes that information less...
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CORD
The Council of Residency Directors (CORD) in Emergency Medicine is next week in Denver. This year's hot-button topic is the Milestones, the foundation of a new outcomes-based resident evaluation...
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Parzival's iClickEM: Our Opportunity to Improve Emergency Medicine
On Monday, December 9th, Parzival will be releasing 1,000 access codes to the closed beta version of it’s EM-specific search engine, iClickEM. iClickEM is an opportunity to improve the way we as an EM...
View ArticleFear of Twitter
A fellow resident recently wrote an article for the Emergency Medicine Resident Association (EMRA) periodical called"Emergency Medicine Education 2.0: A Brief Overview." The article is a synopsis of...
View ArticleFree Emergency Medicine Ultrasound "Course"
EM ultrasound is difficult to learn by using books with text and static images. I’m just finishing a quick week of introductory ultrasound in which the interns walk around the department with a senior...
View ArticleFree EM Ultrasound Lessons 1 - 5 Now Posted
The purpose of this free "course" is for it to continually improved. I have contributed absolutely no content, but simply arranged free resources in a logical manner. It takes 10 minutes to set up...
View ArticleWhy Should We Embrace Web 2.0: to change medical management
I'm on vacation. Vacation for me means having the opportunity to have fun with an education project that I don't get to do while I'm busy with residency. My older sister, Jennifer Maichin and...
View ArticlePrezi
The worst lectures are those with PowerPoint slides cluttered with bullet points and words. Why even get in front of a crowd and speak if everything you are going to say is already on the slides?...
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SOPA and WikEM
The SOPA protest worked. Without Wikipedia, it turns out, the world isn't as efficient or fun. You don't know what you have, until you no longer have it. .Inspired by the protest, I wrote my local...
View ArticleTime Magazine for Kids
Last month I visited a hi-tech middle school class to teach middle schoolers some anatomy. We dissected sheep hearts, just like many of you have done in your own studies. What made this experience...
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Article 16
Thank you to Michelle Lin for choosing the "Web 2.0 Changed my Management," idea. And congratulations to Jim Campagna for also winning the EM Blog Incubator competition. I can't wait to start...
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Shouldn’t the beginning be at the beginning?: The role of the...
I wrote this opinion piece during my fourth year of medical school. I was going to submit it to a print journal, but it got lost in the mix of applying for residency, finishing up research projects,...
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Who is Henry Mandin? And Why do You Care?
Dr. Henry Mandin had a novel idea: he wanted to teach medical students how to think like doctors. .Henry saw that medical schools had begun to use problem based learning (PBL) created by MacMaster...
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Ninja scribes
We have ninja scribes in our department. .These are young, eager premeds who follow our attendings from room to room and maniacally type H&Ps into electronic notes on COWs. They are dressed in...
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Dear ACGME: Please be careful
US News and World Reports must be licking their chops.The New England Journal of Medicine has published a special report, "The Next GME Accreditation System — Rationale and Benefits." The report...
View ArticleShowMe
My sister has been featured in a new online commercial for the product ShowMe.You know you're watching a good presentation when the message is powerful enough to carry the medium without in-your-face...
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Pop-Teachers
Salman Khan was featured on 60 minutes last week. He and the Khan Academy have become wildly popular and have officially achieved rock-star status. How many followers does Khan have now? Over 3.5...
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