Resident as Educator

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With an ever increasing emphasis on teaching residents (registrars, etc.) how to teach, this book is a welcome addition for any educator in emergency medicine. Todd Guth, M.D. , Stephen Wolf, M.D., and other core teaching faculty and EM residents from the Denver Health Emergency Medicine Residency and the University of Colorado School of Medicine [...]

The Magic of Spaced Repetition and Cognitive Science

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How cognitive science can help learning in medicine has been featured on iTeachEM a few times already. In are Are You Wrong About Learning? we discovered that studying in one place, learning one thing at a time, taking notes in lectures and not studying just before the exam are NOT necessarily good for learning. In [...]

Join the FOAM revolution!

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As you know we’re FOAM fanatics at iTeachEM. We think it’s imperative that no one misses out on the bubbly effervescent taste of FOAM. Even if you’re just a lurker or a consumer that’s cool. You’ll learn more, learn more efficiently, and be able to help spread new ideas through the usual routes — at [...]

IEM Teaching Course Day 5

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It is sad that its has come to an end, but the International Emergency Medicine Teaching Course in Balitmore, Maryland is over. However, the friendships and the learning will live on. Review all the tweets from Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4. The stats and analytics of the #IEMTC12 hashtag are available [...]

PBF on TBL

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Joel Toph (@Kidney_boy) is a renal physician who blogs on the fantastically named Precious Bodily Fluids. He just posted Team based learning, reason for optimism about medical education. Joel explains that he is pessimistic about medical education for many reasons. However, he now has a cause for optimism after seeing Team Based Learning (TBL) in [...]