Educational Technology: Web 2.0
Introduction Take a look around the next time you are walking through the lobby of your school or workplace. You will likely see people texting on their phones, typing at…
The Computer as a Teaching Tool
Improving Patient Care by Locating and Implementing Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines Question: What is the evidence-based method of diagnosing and treating condition X? Students may be unaware that evidence-based consensus guidelines…
Pearls and Pitfalls in Teaching: What Works, What Does Not?
Introduction Writing a chapter that points out pitfalls without suggesting solutions would be akin to imposing endless criticism on a student without offering ways to improve. Therefore, the various pitfalls…
Teaching to An International Audience
Background Emergency medicine (EM) is one of the youngest medical specialties in the world and is rapidly growing all around the globe. Emerging in the late 1960s in USA and…
Strategies for Effective Clinical Emergency Department Teaching
Introduction One unifying element of emergency medicine (EM) the world over is the busy, unpredictable, and physically constrained environment in which emergency physicians (EPs) practice and teach. Accordingly, the only…
Teaching Invasive Medical Procedures
Prepare to Teach and Learn Before instructing anyone in the performance of a procedure, it is important to provide an opportunity for the student to prepare to learn that procedure….
Teaching Medical Students
Reasons to Teach Medical Students All physicians-in-training were once medical students. As educators, we have a unique opportunity to influence not only medical students’ specialty selection but also their view…
Bedside Teaching in The Emergency Department
What is Holding us Back: Barriers to Bedside Teaching Classically, bedside teaching occurred during inpatient ward rounds conducted by academic professors in university teaching hospitals. This environment was a stable…
Mentoring in Emergency Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USAThe Permanente Journal, Portland, OR, USA Mentor and Mentoring Defined A mentor is someone who takes a special interest in the…
