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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Guidelines for Providing Effective Feedback Feedback can be readily adapted as an effective teaching tool into the unique educational environment of the ED. The seminal paper by Ende [1] delineates…