This site serves as my ePortfolio. Here you will find links to my online footprint, my professional and academic projects, as well as any other creative endeavours I am involved in.
This site serves as my ePortfolio. Here you will find links to my online footprint, my professional and academic projects, as well as any other creative endeavours I am involved in.
Okay, Announcement Time.
I am doing The Big Swim in August of this year.
Why am I doing this?
Well, it’s a charity event to raise money for Brigadoon Children’s Camp – Please give generously (click the Logo to go to the Donation page).
Raising money for Brigadoon is a Great reason, but it’s not the only one.
I am doing this for myself – I needed a big, crazy goal to shake of the last 5 years of complacency. I have a family that needs me to be alive and in shape, and to be around for the next 50 or so years.
So I am back in the water, training hard, and I’m going to swim 16 km across the Northumberland Strait in 3 months.
Plus I’m a bit nuts.
Raising money for a great charity, and personal growth – both fantastic reasons to do something a bit crazy. But why this particular bit of crazy?
2 years ago my best friend, Kirk MacLeod, did this swim. Inspiring all by itself, but the circumstances under which he did it defy belief and reason. Read his story below, shake off the tears and chills, then click on the Brigadoon logo above and Please Donate.
Thanks.
There has been a surge of interest in Social Media and how it might be used in Emergency Medicine and EM Education here at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Kendall Ho, an EM Physician and Head of the UBC eHealth Strategy Office (Facebook, Twitter)is kicking off a big push to explore SoMe with a few events:
With the growing interest in SoMe in EM and Medical Education, I think a short primer on the space is warranted.
This is a list, with some commentary, of (I think) excellent KT and MedEd resources in the Social Media space so that people can explore. This is NOT by any stretch a comprehensive list, but is meant as a Primer for the upcoming discussion for those unfamiliar with the myriad faces of SoMe.
Social Media, in my opinion, is primarily a Knowledge Translation tool rather than a primary source of medical information. It is a vast and useful filter for the ‘firehose of information’ that spews from the mainstream medical literature.
FOAM should not be seen as a teaching philosophy or strategy, but rather as a globally accessible crowd-sourced educational adjunct providing inline (contextual) and offline (asynchronous) content to augment traditional educational principles.
WikEmerg is a 3 part project:
The Wiki – a MetaFilter
The Wiki section is an attempt to organize the web, and especially FOAMed, content. The Internet is a vast content sinkhole. Most of us don’t have the time, energy, or inclination to dig very deep. We use Google (or GoogleFOAM!), get recommendations from colleagues or learners, or follow a few high quality blogs and podcasts. We can’t all be Scott Weingart (EMCrit), David Newman (SmartEM), or Joe Lex (FreeEmergencyTalks), so we rely on them, and folks like them, to filter and process the content.
Even then it can be a bit of a chore to dig out that specific bit on a specific topic at a moment’s notice, even with GoogleFOAM… So I have created a curated list of resources for EM Topics. With kind permission, I have used Reuben Strayer’s (EMUpdates) Diagnosis, Therapeutics, and Procedures list to structure the initial Topic List. Most topics are just a list of links right now but I hope that, with some help, we can structure each topic into a more useful narrative structure.
The Wiki is intended to be a ‘meta’ site. Some original content may appear here, but mostly topics should be a curated guide to currently available outside resources on any given topic. This is a step further than a curated search engine like GoogleFOAM.com, and several steps beyond a basic Google or Bing search. I am a huge FOAM proponent and so preference should be given to Free and Open Access resources, but there is no prohibition on linking to subscription or pay sites, so long as this is explicit in the article or link, and the end result is high quality information.
The Lectures – a way to organize a ‘Flipped’ Curriculum
This section is a place to add a lecture series (like a residency or clerkship curriculum). Each ‘Lecture’ has a place to post Objectives, Videos, Documents, etc. Each time a lecture is given, the presenter can add a ‘Presentation’ – Audio or Video content, Lecture notes, Presentation documents. This acts like a ChangeLog for the lecture. The next time that lecture is assigned, the new presenter can start with the previous presentation and ADD to it rather than RECREATE it. This has a number of benefits:
The Rounds – personalized repository of your talks
This section is for posting your unique, one-off talks. These could be your departmental Grand Rounds, Conference Talks, or Research Days. Each ‘Round’ is identified by the Creator and Institution, and can be searched or filtered that way as well. In addition to the primary media (audio or video), you can post all of the related material, documents and other bits associated with the talk, as well as interact with peers via the comment section.
‘Rounds’ is intended to be a personal or institutional repository of talks and sessions. This can be shared as part of a CV, an online professional profile (like LinkedIn or Doximity), or for later review if someone missed the talk. I think it is criminal that many talks simply vanish after being given once – we all work damned hard on them so they should endure if possible. I also think that paper slide handouts are a waste – there are vast opportunities for further, deeper learning by pointing people at your sources, and making that sharing easy.
[This post is excerpted from an interview I did with Michele Lin at Academic Life in Emergency Medicine]
The fantastic Michele Lin recently interviewed me for her site Academic Life in EM.
You can read the whole post here (or click the thumbnail above). For the record I objected (not too strenuously…) to the Hero title.
GoogleFOAM.com and Wikemerg.ca will get their own posts here next.
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