Author: jwillis

James Willis, MD. Assistant Program Director at SUNY Downstate / Kings County.

Bedside Teaching

Bedside Teaching Bedside teaching is a concept and skill I feel is spoken about a lot these days but is not as prominent in medical education as it once was. William Osler, considered the Father of Modern medicine, was a…

How to Give A Lecture

  Creating and presenting a lecture can be done in many different ways. The two majors formats are horrible and good. There are some simple rules to abide by that make any lecture palatable. Beyond that the sky is the…

See One, Do One, Teach One: What Do EM Learners Want?

The Teaching Mini-Fellowship met on 8/14 for our first meeting this Academic year. We had two new members join us, Andrea Ferrari and Carla Sterling. They both performed their initiation 5 minute lecture about topics they are experts in. Anyone else…

Wednesday Wrap-Up

11/14 Conference 8-845            Topic Review         Dr. Cioe 845-910        Clinical Pearl        Drs. Smith and Bradby 910-955         EBM          …

Wednesday Wrap-up 8/1/12

  8AM- Manoach- Hemodynamic Monitoring 9AM- Wright- ACLS 10AM- Mallemat-  The slowly crashing tamponade pt Part 2- Who really needs a central line? 11AM- Walalce- Part 1- Emergency Medicine Health Services Research Part 2- Regional Critical Care Supply and Demand…

Wednesday Wrap-up: 5/23/12

  Time:  Speaker: Lecture: 8-8:50 Nadir Debriefing 9 -9:50 Adeleke Hypersensitivity Derm Disorders 10 -10:50 Ritchie / Christopher Facial blocks / Sinusitis 11 -11:50 Julie / Jegede / Christopher / Caputo Pearls It seemed like the popular topic of conference…

EKG 2 answer

Answer and ECG submitted by Dr. Eli Brown.   Thanks Richie/Shin.  Good work in spotting the “widow maker. “ I would like to point out that this patient actually has poor R-wave progression. That, along with the QS complexes (III,…

EKG 2

Here’s another EKG to get you guys talking. Thank you Dr. Silverberg and Dr. Brown for the case. 73 chinese female h/o dm, htn and high cholesterol had syncopal episode. Felt heart racing and palpitations prior to passing out at…