Tactical Medicine News Blog

ALiEM Cards, Medical Education
Paucis Verbis: Feedback card
Today’s Paucis Verbis card is a little different. This card focuses on helping you give talking points when giving feedback to a learner on shift. This could be a medical...
Michelle Lin, MD | December 9, 2011
Medical Education, Social Media & Tech
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....
Michelle Lin, MD | November 21, 2011
Medical Education, medical student, SAEM
Calling all med students: SAEM Ambassador opportunity
Are you a medical student interested in EM? Want to get your registration costs waived at a national meeting? Want to come say hi to me? Here is an...
Michelle Lin, MD | November 16, 2011
Medical Education, video
Video: Dr. Eric Mazur on peer teaching
“My lecturing was ineffective, despite the high evaluations.” “The traditional approach to teaching reduces education to a transfer of information.” – Dr. Eric Mazur Dr. Eric Mazur is a Harvard...
Michelle Lin, MD | November 14, 2011
Education Articles, Medical Education
Article review: Evaluating your written evaluation of a learner
As a new faculty, one of the first challenges that I encountered was completing evaluation forms for medical students and residents. In our department, a Daily Evaluation Card (DEC) is...
Hans Rosenberg, MD | November 7, 2011
Medical Education, medical student, Social Media & Tech
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...
Michelle Lin, MD | October 26, 2011
hero, Medical Education
Remembering Dr. Robert Buckman
For those who trained in Canada (especially Toronto), the name of Dr. Robert Buckman always brought a chuckle. He filled his lectures with his signature British wit and humour. Yet, the...
Stella Yiu, MD | October 13, 2011
Medical Education, poll
Poll: YOU are on the residency selection committee. What would YOU do?
As an attending physician, you are friends with nurses and residents on social media. One day, you are browsing through your social media page. You came across a photo of...
Stella Yiu, MD | October 3, 2011
Medical Education, poll, Social Media & Tech
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...
Michelle Lin, MD | September 7, 2011
Medical Education, podcast, residency
EM-RAP Educator’s Podcast: How to get promoted in academic EM
Dr. Amal Mattu gives a great 47-minute lecture on “How to Get Promoted in Academic Emergency Medicine”. Catch the podcast from the talk in July’s EM-RAP Educator’s Edition. He...
Michelle Lin, MD | August 9, 2011
Medical Education, medical student
Advice for the new EM interns, part II
As a followup to a previous post on “The 10 Commandments in Emergency Medicine”, we would like to pay tribute to our pediatric friends. More than a decade after it...
Fred Wu, MHS, PA-C | August 8, 2011
hero, Medical Education
Faculty hero: Dr. Jim Adams (part 2)
Continuing from the Part 1 (Aug 2, 2011 post), here is the rest of my conversation with Dr. Jim Adams: What cool things are you working on right now? The big...
Michelle Lin, MD | August 4, 2011
hero, Medical Education
Faculty hero: Dr. Jim Adams (part 1)
There are many leaders in Emergency Medicine but there are few who are true visionaries. Dr. Jim Adams (Chair at Northwestern’s Department of EM) is one such visionary. He’s given...
Michelle Lin, MD | August 2, 2011

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