WikEM and AAEM/RSA Elective

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WikEM is joining forces with AAEM/RSA to create an online collaborative educational experience for emergency medicine residents around the globe.  The new WikEM elective offers residents the opportunity to learn medical writing and editing on an international platform accessed by thousands of emergency practitioners. Under guidance of the senior editors at WikEM with support from AAEM/RSA, the elective engages participants in active learning and synthesis of knowledge into bedside pearls.  All content is then instantly available on the web and mobile applications for bedside reference.

Specific details about the elective are found here.

Highlights:

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Intro to Editing: Templates

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Using templates to organize information on the wiki becomes increasingly more useful as content grows.  In a nutshell templates are pages that contain information that can be inserted on any page.  If the content on the template changes it is automatically updated on every page that uses the template.

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The best examples are the Sgarbossa’s Criteria page  and the STEMI page.   Both pull their information from the Sgarbossa’s Template and allow any updates to Sgarbossa to be reflected everywhere the template was used.

Create a new template just as you would any page except begin the name with “Template:”. To insert the template  on another page type {{Template NAME}} and it will automatically bring in the content.

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Editor Spotlight: Joel Miller

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Joel Miller, MD MPH joined WikEM within the last year but quickly became involved on the site, especially in the Toxicology section where he now serves as one of the section editors.

Joel graduated from Wayne State School of Medicine and also completed an MPH in Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health.

He is currently a resident in Emergency Medicine at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA.  Impressively, he is also an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at Western New England University where he teaches Pathophysiology and  Toxicology. 

When not in the ED, teaching Tox, or contributing to WikEM, Joel likes to walk his giant dogs through the woods of New England, rock climb and travel.

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Journal Club: DL vs VL in Trauma

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This month, we will be reviewing the Effect of video laryngoscopy on trauma patient survival: a randomized controlled trial, published in Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery by Yeatts et al.  The study was a randomized controlled performed at the Maryland Shock where patients either received direct laryngoscope or glidescope assisted video laryngoscopy.

The study had a patient centered primary outcome of survival to hospital discharge and no difference was found between the two groups.  There was, however, interesting subgroup findings useful for generating the next hypothesis.

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Two is One, One is None

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With such fantastic medical educational content being produced on the web everyday, the EM community may have been lulled into a sense of  internet permanence.  For example, I’m sure many of us have said or heard others say:

“Just back it up online”. “Just search for it on Twitter”.  “Google owns Blogger, it isn’t going anywhere”.  “The wordpress blog won’t crash”.  “I can always redownload the podcasts I heard last year.  “I’ll just repost everything if it gets deleted”. “I’ll google the show notes later as a reference”.  “I have everything on Dropbox and Evernote”.

At the end of the day, just as everything offline is transient, everything online is especially… Read more