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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
History of Simulation in Education Simulation-based medical education (SBME) has been around since at least 17th century France, where birthing mannequins were used [1]. Despite the long-standing awareness of the…
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…
Opportunities for Use of Small Groups In emergency medicine, small groups are beneficial for almost any educational objective. To be successful, enough time and space must be allotted for a…
