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Friday, January 27, 2012
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
SOPA and WikEM
The SOPA protest worked. Without Wikipedia, it turns out, the world isn't as efficient or fun. You don't know what you have, until you no longer have it.
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Inspired by the protest, I wrote my local congressman (which Google and Wikipedia made extremely easy to do). Then I joined WikEM.
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I created content for this page: http://www.wikem.org/wiki/Ultrasound:_Aorta. As those of you who read my blog know, I recently started compiling a free ultrasound course. I plan on updating or creating WikEM pages while I continue to create free ultrasound lessons.
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A friend of mine is a banker. We had drinks the other night and he told me about a co-worker/banker who had some unique ideas on information. This banker has started to pull his money out of stocks, and started to buy up farm land. Why? Because he believes that although information is at a high premium now, it will soon become so ubiquitous and universally accessible, that monetary value will shift toward things that we actually need to survive - like food and water. This may be an extreme view on the nature of Web 2.0 and the movement for free access to information, but it speaks to the movement's real and powerful presence.
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I don't know what exactly will happen, but I do know that free information is the future. And if you're not on board, you'll be left behind. Please join in making information free.
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Inspired by the protest, I wrote my local congressman (which Google and Wikipedia made extremely easy to do). Then I joined WikEM.
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I created content for this page: http://www.wikem.org/wiki/Ultrasound:_Aorta. As those of you who read my blog know, I recently started compiling a free ultrasound course. I plan on updating or creating WikEM pages while I continue to create free ultrasound lessons.
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A friend of mine is a banker. We had drinks the other night and he told me about a co-worker/banker who had some unique ideas on information. This banker has started to pull his money out of stocks, and started to buy up farm land. Why? Because he believes that although information is at a high premium now, it will soon become so ubiquitous and universally accessible, that monetary value will shift toward things that we actually need to survive - like food and water. This may be an extreme view on the nature of Web 2.0 and the movement for free access to information, but it speaks to the movement's real and powerful presence.
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I don't know what exactly will happen, but I do know that free information is the future. And if you're not on board, you'll be left behind. Please join in making information free.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Prezi
The worst lectures are those with PowerPoint slides cluttered with bullet points and words. Why even get in front of a crowd and speak if everything you are going to say is already on the slides? Less clutter means more attention to the the speaker. The best lectures are those that tell a story.
Try Prezi when creating your next presentation. I played with it last night after a shift, and was able to easily turn earlier blog posts (Venn and 3 Tenets) into a cool presentation. If I want to teach someone about my ideas, I can easily go on to my Prezi account and use this as my storyboard to explain myself.
Try Prezi when creating your next presentation. I played with it last night after a shift, and was able to easily turn earlier blog posts (Venn and 3 Tenets) into a cool presentation. If I want to teach someone about my ideas, I can easily go on to my Prezi account and use this as my storyboard to explain myself.
3 Tenets of Medical Education Venn - TeachMD on Prezi
Join Presi and find it here: http://prezi.com/wd5vyzboa360/3-tenets-of-medical-education-venn-teachmd/
Join Presi and find it here: http://prezi.com/wd5vyzboa360/3-tenets-of-medical-education-venn-teachmd/
Friday, January 13, 2012
Why Should We Embrace Web 2.0: to change medical management
I'm on vacation. Vacation for me means having the opportunity to have fun with an education project that I don't get to do while I'm busy with residency. My older sister, Jennifer Maichin and co-teacher Courtney Zaleski invited me to come into their class and dissect sheep hearts. It was pretty cool.
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The technology at Mineola Middle School (a public school) was unreal. The classroom has Smartboards, every student has an IPad, and there are 4 computers in each classroom. Every lesson embraces the concept of Web 2.0. They are interactive, they are real time, and they facilitate the logical and continuous transitions from teacher to student and back.
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Medicine is behind the times! I work in a pretty up-to-date ED. We have an incredibly powerful and user friendly operating and electronic records system. We have video-conferencing translators, we take notes using Dragon, we use an electronic system to sign out patients to medicine services, and our senior residents carry IPads to better manage the flow of the department they are running.
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But we haven't figured out how to completely embrace Web 2.0 like public Mineola Middle School has. They have figured out how to use interactive web usage in a manner that changes management! Isn't this the holy grail of any contribution to medicine? When my attending asks me why I have my IPad in the ED, I need to justify it's presence. And the answer should be, it changes my management in a productive way.
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Michelle Lin is asking for new blog ideas that she can support and help get off the ground (incubate). This is a dream competition for me, and I'll hand in my submission later today, after I publish this post. The new blog idea: I'll post about how Web 2.0 influences my management of specific patient encounters; and I will ask guests to write mini-case presentations of sorts, in which they report about seeing a patient and how a Web 2.0 activity changed how they treated that patient. I think this information will not only be interesting, but extremely helpful to those who want to use the next generation of the Internet to facilitate better patient care.
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The technology at Mineola Middle School (a public school) was unreal. The classroom has Smartboards, every student has an IPad, and there are 4 computers in each classroom. Every lesson embraces the concept of Web 2.0. They are interactive, they are real time, and they facilitate the logical and continuous transitions from teacher to student and back.
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Medicine is behind the times! I work in a pretty up-to-date ED. We have an incredibly powerful and user friendly operating and electronic records system. We have video-conferencing translators, we take notes using Dragon, we use an electronic system to sign out patients to medicine services, and our senior residents carry IPads to better manage the flow of the department they are running.
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But we haven't figured out how to completely embrace Web 2.0 like public Mineola Middle School has. They have figured out how to use interactive web usage in a manner that changes management! Isn't this the holy grail of any contribution to medicine? When my attending asks me why I have my IPad in the ED, I need to justify it's presence. And the answer should be, it changes my management in a productive way.
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Michelle Lin is asking for new blog ideas that she can support and help get off the ground (incubate). This is a dream competition for me, and I'll hand in my submission later today, after I publish this post. The new blog idea: I'll post about how Web 2.0 influences my management of specific patient encounters; and I will ask guests to write mini-case presentations of sorts, in which they report about seeing a patient and how a Web 2.0 activity changed how they treated that patient. I think this information will not only be interesting, but extremely helpful to those who want to use the next generation of the Internet to facilitate better patient care.
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Friday, January 6, 2012
Free EM Ultrasound Lessons 1 - 5 Now Posted
The purpose of this free "course" is for it to continually improved. I have contributed absolutely no content, but simply arranged free resources in a logical manner. It takes 10 minutes to set up the course for yourself. And each lesson ranges from 1 to 2 hours.
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Lesson 1 through 4 are cardiac, aorta, ruq, and renal/ureter/bladder. Lesson 5 is a review of what you've learned. The next lesson will be FAST, which you will be able to perform well now that you have knowledge of all 4 views.
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I can't possibly know what all the free resources out there are. So please comment and contribute and help others teach themselves how to be better at ultrasound. I'm particularly interested in ultrasound videos that clinically correlate so that we can improve our practice and knowledge base of EM, not just ultrasound.
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I look forward to this project evolving and thank you in advance for all of your help. A special thanks to Tarina Kang, ultrasound director at Beth Israel - Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency for supporting this vision.
Find the course here: http://teachmd.blogspot.com/p/free-ed-ultrasound.html
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Teach, MD
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Lesson 1 through 4 are cardiac, aorta, ruq, and renal/ureter/bladder. Lesson 5 is a review of what you've learned. The next lesson will be FAST, which you will be able to perform well now that you have knowledge of all 4 views.
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I can't possibly know what all the free resources out there are. So please comment and contribute and help others teach themselves how to be better at ultrasound. I'm particularly interested in ultrasound videos that clinically correlate so that we can improve our practice and knowledge base of EM, not just ultrasound.
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I look forward to this project evolving and thank you in advance for all of your help. A special thanks to Tarina Kang, ultrasound director at Beth Israel - Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency for supporting this vision.
Find the course here: http://teachmd.blogspot.com/p/free-ed-ultrasound.html
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Teach, MD
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