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Thriving on the Multiple Learner Shift

Thriving on the Multiple Learner Shift

by Shahbaz Syed | Nov 3, 2022 | CME, Commentary, Featured, Medical Education

In many specialities, it is common to have more than one learner working with you at any given time. These are very challenging days/shifts, because you have to juggle so many cognitive priorities. Personally, I find these to be the most exhausting shifts that I work,...
Call for interest – uOttawa Dept Emergency Medicine Medical Education Researcher

Call for interest – uOttawa Dept Emergency Medicine Medical Education Researcher

by Hans Rosenberg | Aug 30, 2022 | Medical Education

The Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at the University of Ottawa is seeking an  innovative  Medical Education Researcher, to  join our world-class research team. This  Medical Education Researcher will work closely with the Vice-Chair, Research and Scholarship...
Recommendations for Education about Sexual and Gender Minorities within Canadian Residency Programs

Recommendations for Education about Sexual and Gender Minorities within Canadian Residency Programs

by Tayler Young, Lucy Karp, Alex Coutin | May 19, 2022 | EDI, Featured, Infographics, Medical Education

At CAEP 2021, the SLGBTQIA + panel identified perceived or real barriers to the inclusion of sexual and gender minority content in Emergency Medicine residency curriculums. Here, we present an infographic documenting the findings and recommendations from the CAEP...
What you write matters! How your notes can seem offensive or judgemental to patients (and you didn’t know it).

What you write matters! How your notes can seem offensive or judgemental to patients (and you didn’t know it).

by Hans Rosenberg | Mar 30, 2021 | Commentary, Featured, Medical Education, Patient Advocacy

Did you know that your patients could be upset with you and your care AFTER you see them? You’re wondering how could this happen, I was friendly, polite and approachable when I saw them. It turns out, in this new world of electronic medical records (EMR) with all...
Performance Mindset: Expertise in Emergency Medicine

Performance Mindset: Expertise in Emergency Medicine

by Justin Godbout, James Gilbertson | Nov 26, 2020 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Medical Education, Pre-Hospital, Trauma

“The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.” – K. Anders Ericsson What defines...
The D-Dimer Dilemma: It’s Use In Low-Risk PE

The D-Dimer Dilemma: It’s Use In Low-Risk PE

by Jim Yang, Kaitlin Endres, Josee Malette | Nov 19, 2020 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Medical Education, Thrombosis

Pulmonary embolism is often a nebulous diagnosis with various nuances. COMMON: They affect 25-100 people per 100,000, or approximately 30,000 Canadians every year Potentially FATAL: 3rd most deadly cardiovascular disease, after Heart Attack and Stroke Associated with...
A Crash Course on Competence Committees

A Crash Course on Competence Committees

by Jeff Landerville, Warren Cheung | Nov 12, 2020 | Featured, Infographics, Medical Education

A Competence Committee (CC) is a key component of Competence by Design (CBD), the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s version of Competency-Based Medical Education. A CC is a sub-committee of the Residency Program Committee (RPC) that provides robust...
Community Paramedicine: Behind the Scenes

Community Paramedicine: Behind the Scenes

by Jessica McCallum, Pascale King | Feb 20, 2020 | Featured, Geriatrics, Grand Round Summaries, Medical Education, Pre-Hospital, Quality Improvement

What is Community Paramedicine? The international round table on community paramedicine provides the following definition: “…a model of care whereby paramedics apply their training and skills in non-traditional community-based environments outside of the usual...
Focus on POCUS: Crackles and Hypotension

Focus on POCUS: Crackles and Hypotension

by Robert Suttie | Dec 6, 2018 | Featured, Infectious Disease, Medical Education, Ultrasound, Urology

For other ultrasound cases see our POCUS archives Case Vignette 63-year-old male presents with a two-day history of groin pain and swelling. He has a history of hypertension and smoking. He takes an anti-hypertensive medication and an atypical antipsychotic for...
EMS Bootcamp – An introduction to pre-hospital medicine

EMS Bootcamp – An introduction to pre-hospital medicine

by Richard Hoang | Nov 22, 2018 | Mass Casualty / Disaster, Medical Education, Pre-Hospital

As dedicated in-hospital emergency providers, few of us truly understand or get to experience the difficulties and unique challenges facing our pre-hospital colleagues. Beyond the EMS handover and transfer of patient care, we seldom interact with this large and...
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