Links to HiQuiPs Posts Quality of Care and the ED (August 1, 2018) Preparation Part 1 – General Considerations for a QI project in the ED (August 29, 2018) Preparation Part 2 – Stakeholder Engagement and Behaviour Change (October 7, 2018) Preparation Part 3 – Root Cause Analysis (November 2, 2018) QI in the ED – Implementation Part 1 QI Implementation methodologies (December 7, 2018) QI in the ED – Implementation Part 2. Which …
Highlights from the 2018 AHA Scientific Statement on Resuscitation Education
View PostLessons Learned in Academic Scholarship
During my PGY-4 year, I had the opportunity to pursue a specialization in Academic Scholarship.1 My year had two primary components: (1) I was the inaugural Editorial Intern at the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine,2 and; (2) I was the Digital Scholars Fellow at CanadiEM.3 Over the course of the year, I learned many lessons about publishing in academics. I wanted to share three of the most pertinent lessons with our community to …
CAEP FEI | Trauma Resuscitation Using In Situ Simulation Team Training (TRUST) Study
Rob is a fourth year resident who is just walking out of the resuscitation bay after working with the team on a 45 year old man hit by a car. His attending staff asks him to think about areas where the resuscitation could have been improved. As Rob reflects on the experience, he wishes that there was a way to better analyze these events and find areas for improvement. Emergency medicine can often …
CAEP FEI | The Nightmares Course at Queen’s University
Lilly is a first year resident who is called by the floor nurse about an elderly gentleman who is “feeling unwell”. She walks into the room and notices he is wheezing and appears short of breath. Lilly starts feeling extremely anxious and is unsure of what she should do before rushing to find her staff. She wishes there was a course that would allow her to be exposed to these situations and become …