My good friend and colleague Mark Wahba [read his brilliant ideas here]gave a talk at half day … he referred to a patient as a “BIBEM“. … I am thinking ” what’s a BIBEM? [as in Justin Bieber]” – NO! … turns out that this stands for Brought In By EMS. Later that night I was charting “No ROS; Note S/S Infxn and RTER; Scar teaching √” These are what we call “Acronyms” …
… — … LWBS …—… ER inpatients …—… EMS park …—… Overcapacity
We had our inaugural residency retreat last month! Our guest speaker was Dr Paul Parks – a humble affable family man and Emergency Physician who was unwittingly thrust into the public eye after Emails were leaked documenting failures in the Alberta Health Care system resulting in ER “suboptimal outcomes”. Dr Parks and colleagues documented what they felt were deleterious outcomes in patients in the waiting room of the University of Alberta Hospital …
Terrific T6 Talks – CanWHA?
Thanks to Rob Woods for this: CanMEDS is a term unfamiliar for many current practicing physicians. The term stands for: Canadian Medical Education Directives for Specialists. It was born out of a concept called ‘Outcome-Based Education‘. The idea is that you should first decide what the product you want is, then design your assessment tools to measure those competencies and finally develop the curriculum and teaching methods to help trainees achieve those assessment …
Terrific T6 talks – Teaching in a Busy ER
The Learning Context: Includes: Physical climate Emotional climate Intellectual climate Has definite effects on: Academic achievement Satisfaction Aspirations It’s therefore important to foster a positive learning environment: Absence of hunger and sleep deprivation. Learning is perceived to be a priority. Safe environment. FUN environment. Individual needs and goals met. Learners are part of the team. Two recent publications by the Bandiera et al highlighted the following: The above publications showed that highly effective …
Terrific T6 talks – Assessment
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Terrific T6 talks – The Problem Learner
Exercise: Reflect on the type of student that annoys/clashes with you. What type of student do you have no idea how to work with? Generally teachers avoid voicing negative feelings towards learners, but in truth there will always be a student that pushes your understanding, patience and goodwill to the limit. How do you deal? Here are some hopefully helpful tips. Understanding Problem Learners Generally, two kinds of problems exist with learners – …