The Capsules series’ primary focus is bringing Emergency Medicine pharmacology education to the bedside. Our expert team distills complex pharmacology principles into easy-to-apply concepts. It’s our version of what-you-need-to-know as an EM practitioner. We hope you enjoy it.
Purpose
The Capsules series was conceived in response to a perceived deficiency of emergency medicine pharmacology information in Free Open Access Meducation (FOAM) resources.
Additionally, in 2012 The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and The American Board of Emergency (ABEM) created 23 milestones for which all EM residents are evaluated during their residency. The Pharmacotherapy milestone is #5.
It got me thinking: What if we created an online curriculum focused on practical pharmacology for the EM practitioner that also incorporated evaluations for each level of the milestone?
Design
Capsules will be the first series to fully take advantage of our new Learning Management System (or LMS). A new module will be published each month starting July 2015. We have more than 25 topics planned over the next few years.
The Capsules series will be composed of separate course modules. Each course module will be broken into multiple lessons which can further be separated into topics. A quiz will be provided at the end of each lesson or topic to reinforce key learning points. All modules are written by two pharmacist team members and then peer-reviewed by a separate pharmacist and physician. In addition, the quizzes will be structured with questions assessing levels 1-4 of the ACGME EM milestones. We are hopeful they may be adapted by EM residency programs as an evaluation method.
By breaking down modules into smaller chunks, we allow learners to save their progress and learn on their own time. We also built this platform to be “mobile first” so that learners have a great experience on any device.
The Team
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Bryan is the ALiEM Chief Science Officer and a featured podcaster on EM:RAP. He is an EM Pharmacist and Toxicologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of EM at Harvard Medical School. Bryan’s passion is taking complex pharmacology and therapeutics education to the bedside in an easy-to-understand manner.
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In July 2015, Chris will serve as a chief resident at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga. When he isn’t working in the ED, he strives to invent creative ways to improve patient care and medical education through innovative technologies.
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Derek is the Submission Editor for Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) as well as the Editor-in-Chief of the HURT Registry project (www.hurtregistry.org). He is a pre-medical student at Wayne State Universitry in Detroit, Michigan striving to become a Flight Physician in the future. His interests include prehospital medicine, critical care, trauma, statistics, and the use of technology to foster growth and innovation within the field of medicine.
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We have assembled an outstanding team of pharmacists from around the country to create and review each module. In addition, we have several highly-respected physician colleagues to peer-review each module after review by our pharmacist team.
ALiEMU Capsules Pharmacist Team
| Team Member | Role | Affiliation |
| Nadia I. Awad, PharmD, BCPS @Nadia_EMPharmD | Associate Editor | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital |
| Craig Cocchio, PharmD, BCPS @iEMPharmD | Associate Editor | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, Trinity Mother Frances Hospital |
| Jill Logan, PharmD, BCPS @EMPharm | Associate Editor | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, University of Maryland Medical Center |
| Rob Pugliese, PharmD, BCPS @theEDpharmacist | Associate Editor | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, Thomas Jefferson University |
| Meghan Groth, PharmD, BCPS @EMpharmgirl | Author & Copy Editor | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, UMass Memorial Medical Center |
| Zlatan Coralic, PharmD, BCPS @ZEDPharm | Author | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, University of California San Francisco |
| Kyle DeWitt, PharmD, BCPS @EmergPharm | Author | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, University of Vermont Medical Center |
| Chris Edwards, PharmD, BCPS @emergencypharm | Author | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, University of Arizona Medical Center |
| Douglas Gowen, PharmD, BCPS @DougEDPharm | Author | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, Glens Falls Hospital |
| Michelle Hines, PharmD, BCPS @mEDpharmD | Author | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, University of Maryland |
| Colleen Martin, PharmD @C0lleen_Martin | Author | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, Nyack Hospital |
| Glenn Oettinger, PharmD, BCPS @glennoettinger | Author | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, Thomas Jefferson University |
| Wesley Oliver, PharmD, MS @wolivERpharmd | Author | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, Baltimore Washington Medical Center |
| Gabrielle Procopio, PharmD, BCPS @gppharmed | Author | Hackensack University Medical Center |
| Jamie Rosini, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, DABAT @jrozzini | Author | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, Christiana Care Health System |
| Cole Sloan, PharmD @DrugInfoGeek | Author | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, University of Utah |
| Adam Spaulding, PharmD, BCPS @PharmERAtom | Author | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, Boston Medical Center |
| Matthew Stanton, PharmD, BCPS, SPI, DABAT @RxMilwaukee | Author | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin |
| Paul Takamoto, PharmD @ptakpharm | Author | Emergency Medicine Pharmacist, University of California San Francisco |
ALiEMU Capsules Physician Colleagues
| Team Member | Background |
| David Juurlink, BPharm, MD, PhD, FRCPC @DavidJuurlink | Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto |
| Lewis Nelson, MD, FAACT, FACMT, FACEP @LNelsonMD | Professor and Chair of Emergency Medicine, Rutgers NJMS |
| Michael Winters, MD, FAAEM, FACEP @critcareguys | Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, University of Maryland |
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