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Category Archives: medical education
Let’s stop using adjectives to identify patients
We have all heard it, we have probably all said it: “My diabetics never follow my instructions” “That schizophrenic is back in the hospital again” “How should I screen cirrhotics?” “Did you hear about my CHF-er?” It might be easy to … Continue reading
Are we really training learners to manage diseases?
If you pay close attention to medical education and training, you have surely read something like this as an goal or learning objective: “Manage inflammatory bowel disease and its complications” However, this is not exactly what our goals should be. One push in the … Continue reading
In The Absence of Evidence…
In this week’s JAMA, Scott Braithwaite, MD, MS wrote a Piece of My Mind editorial, “EBM’s Six Dangerous Words,” which made me think back to a former blog post of mine from 2011, “Doc, can I use this natural supplement?” What … Continue reading
Posted in CAM, medical education, patient care
Tagged academic medicine, CAM, doctor-patient relationship, medical education, medicine, patient care
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Presenting on a consult service: Rule number four
A while back, I posted three “rules” of presenting on a consult service. I’d now like to add a fourth rule. Rule Number 4: In patients with chronic disorders, consider more than simply a “disease flare” in your differential diagnosis. … Continue reading
Posted in medical education
Tagged #meded, academic medicine, IBD, medical education, medicine, patient care
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A Rapid Rescue for a New Mnemonic in BLS
In reviewing for my upcoming ACLS recertification through the American Heart Association‘s HeartCode ACLS program, I learned that the classic mnemonic for the Basic Life Support (BLS) primary survey, the “ABCs”, which stood for Airway, Breathing (including Look, Listen, and … Continue reading
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Are Twitter-savvy students “privileged”?
At this week’s AAMC meeting, Alex Djuricich (@MedPedsDoctor), Terry Kind (@Kind4Kids), and I presented a workshop that dealt with using Social Media/Twitter in our roles as medical educators. During a breakout session within the workshop, I heard an interesting concern … Continue reading
Posted in medical education, Social Media
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My Med 2.0 (#med2) Experience
This weekend I attended my first “med-tech” conference (Medicine 2.0). What an eye-opening experience it was for me! I got to meet some phenomenal people whom I never would have otherwise met just by staying in my silo of gastroenterology … Continue reading
Posted in medical education, Social Media
Tagged #meded, hcsm, healthcare social media, med 2.0, medical education, social media, Twitter
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The internist as a puzzle solver: my (a)vocation
I’ve been getting GAMES magazine for years. Decades, actually, on and off. I remember doing logic games way back in elementary school, and I still do them first in my GAMES magazines. When I was a kid, my grandmother and … Continue reading
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Your Job Interview Begins Now
A few days ago I was sitting in the endoscopy unit working on some notes, when one of my fellows walked into the physician’s room to speak to one of her patients over the phone. The patient evidently had a … Continue reading
The Internal Medicine Interest Group: a quick story
I just took part in the UNC School of Medicine’s Internal Medicine Interest Group session. These type of panels were recently discussed in a New England Journal of Medicine Perspective, as well as that week’s #meded Twitter chat (you can read … Continue reading
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