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.  

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/

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