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FOAM Starter | How to choose who to follow when you are new to Twitter…

In Mentorship by Robert Bryant4 Comments

One of the more common questions I get asked by new Twitter users is WTF (Who To Follow?)! Twitter only really works if the user has a critical mass of people / organizations that they are following. There are now over 280 million monthly active Twitter users, and of these, over 1000 registered #FOAMed supporters. The dizzying array of people to follow can confuse, and overwhelm the new Twitter user. I like to …

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EMSimCases.com | A not-so-boring take on Simulation

In Mentorship by Teresa ChanLeave a Comment

In the spirit of true FOAM-y collaboration, we are taking some time to feature a recent #FOAMed initiative that has been lead by two Canadian PGY4 residents.  As depicted in Eve Purdy’s post earlier this week, however, these two actually collaborated at a distance to bring this initiative to life.  Kyla Caners is a co-Chief Resident at McMaster University (Hamilton, ON, Canada) and Martin Kuuskne is a senior resident at McGill University (Montreal, …

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Behind the Scenes: doing research at a distance

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Editor’s note: In this article Eve Purdy discusses lessons learned while performing, writing and publishing research with a team spread across the country. The final product “The use of free educational  resources by Canadian emergency medicine residents and program directors” was published in CJEM in March 2015.  Of note, she (and some of here colleagues) will be available to answer questions via the new CJEM Facebook page in the coming weeks!  – TC   …

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Life Beyond Medicine | Why I Write

In Mentorship by Sarah Luckett-GatopoulosLeave a Comment

I recently wrote a piece for our Life Beyond Medicine series explaining why running specifically, and physical activity more generally, is such a central part of my mental well-being as a resident. On writing it, however, I realised that something big was missing: Running is an important process for me, but I hadn’t spoken at all about writing, which is another essential part of how I make sense of the world and stay …

BoringEM Research Week | Skimming the top off Research/ClinEpi FOAM

In Mentorship by Eve Purdy2 Comments

Editor’s note: This is the final post of BoringEM’s research week. We hope that you have enjoyed all of the research-related material. To end the series on a high note, this post will direct you towards a couple of phenomenal research resources that are, of course, FREE! More than anything we hope that you will comment below with your best resources so that we might start to compile what is available! Thanks to Swapnil (@hswapnil) …

Things I Wish I knew as a Medical Student: reflections from a research pro

In Mentorship by Robert Green2 Comments

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth post in the BoringEM Research week series. Below we hear from Dr. Rob Green, researcher extraordinaire, about medical student research  He was featured earlier this week in “Guess Who? Canadian EM Research Edition” but today reflects on what he wish he knew as a student. – EP After years of training and subsequently developing an academic position in Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Trauma in Halifax, I have …