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…
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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…
See One, Do One, TEACH One: Reasons to do an International Elective
Seems like a long time since my last post and since I have been some what of a jetsetter this past month I thought I would share my thoughts on why you should consider finding a worthwhile international elective. Its…
See One, Do One, TEACH One: My Top 5 Educational Experiences of 2013
Last blog post as 2013 comes to a close and I thought in the spirit of the holidays I would give the gift of my top five educational cases/adventures/inspirations of 2013! Feel free to share any interesting cases/adventures/inspirations below enjoy!…
See One, Do One, TEACH One: Getting the Best out of People and Being an Effective Teacher/Leader
I think we are lucky to have so many leaders in education in our department. Even if you plan to move to rural Montana to practice after residency you will most likely have to educate nurses, physician assistants as well…
See One, Do One, TEACH One: Senior Resident Tools for Teaching Low Risk Chest Pain
During a resident supervisor shift this summer a brand new intern asked me how do you know that a patient has low risk chest pain and when do we send them home? This was followed by a third year that…
See One, Do One, TEACH One: Dissecting the Clinician-Teacher
Doctor: an agentive noun from the latin verb docere “to teach”. We all have great clinician-teachers that seamlessly jump from subject to subject effectively being able to teach pearls with each case. You stand in awe as you realize how…