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by Michelle Lin, MD
Mar 16, 2020
Weekly emergency medicine (EM) residency conferences are not exempt from the #CancelEverything movement as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Resid...
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AIR Series: Infectious Disease, Hematology, Oncology 2014
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New AIR Series: ALiEM Approved Instructional Resources
On behalf of the AIR Executive Board, we are excited to introduce the Approved Instructional Resources (AIR) series! The AIR series was conceived t...
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Announcing the ALiEM-CORD Social Media and Digital Scholarship Fellowship
We very are excited to announce an innovative, joint initiative with CORD (Council of EM Residency Directors) in launching the 2014-2015 ALiEM-CORD...
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Hot off the Press: Talking about Web 2.0 in Emergency Medicine
I am humbled to be included and quoted in a recent Annals of EM commentary about Web 2.0 in Emergency Medicine. Hey, my "street credibility" just w...
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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’...
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Inspirational graduation speech by Conan
“Your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound reinvention.”
“No specific job or career goal defines me, and it should not define you....
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Advice for the new EM interns
One of my favorite blogs, Better in Emergency Medicine, by Dr. Rob Cooney reviewed the 1991 article entitled “The Ten Commandments in Emergency Me...
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Doing well as a new EM attending physician
You are super-excited to get your first real job as an emergency physician after residency. Then this immediately turns into a nauseating, super-t...
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Didactic videos for rotating residents the ED
Many academic Emergency Departments are staffed by non-EM residents. Dr. Amer Aldeen and his super-star team from Northwestern created NURRC Modul...
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Article Review: Online curriculum for non-EM residents in the ED
In many academic Emergency Departments, there are “off-service” or non-EM residents rotating in the department. They are sometimes invited to the...
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Need your help! Favorite medical apps
So, I volunteered to give a talk for the UCSF Office of Graduate Medical Education WAAAAY back in early 2010 on “There’s an App for That: Key Sm...
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Residency interview season: Pitfalls
I often get asked by my advisees: “In my residency interview, what should I talk about or do to make myself more competitive?”
To help you demyst...
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New kid on the block: Univ of Washington EM residency
How awesome would it be if there were EM residency programs at the University of Washington and UCSF-SF General Hospital?!
This has been the quest...
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Life of an Attending: Is this or will this be you?
Thanks to one of our residents, Hangyul, I just recently learned about a hilarious comic strip series called Scutmonkey Comics in the blog The Unde...
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Hot off the press: Journal of Graduate Medical Education
In 2009, ACGME has launched a new journal focused on graduate medical education, called the Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME). For those...
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Article review: Feedback in the Emergency Department
Feedback is important in teaching and learning. I am constantly surprised by medical student and resident comments that they rarely receive feedbac...
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Article review: Conference attendance ≠ better test scores
Not all learners should be expected to have the same learning style.
This is exemplified in a recent multicenter study, which addresses whether att...
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Article review: Service versus education
It’s a busy day in the Emergency Department and there are 5 new patients to be seen. The waiting room is overflowing. As the attending, you are get...
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Article Review: Hidden cost of reducing resident duty hours
Patient care versus education
This is the tug-of-war struggle that residency programs constantly grapple with. Residents work in an apprenticeship ...
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Article review: Commentary on graduate medical education in the U.S.
“How ready are medical students for the clinical practice of medicine?”
This was the question addressed by the landmark 1910 Flexner Report from th...
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Trick of the Trade: The defensive arts against pimping
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