Become a Presentation Master Handouts

Here are the handouts for our talk at CORD17, Clearwater Ballroom. Practice Bad Slides http://bit.ly/2plVb6g Slide Design eBook http://bit.ly/2oAbhwg The Presentation Slides http://bit.ly/2qa8KpG And if you want to contact any of the speakers, here are our Twitter handles. Tyson Pillow @docpillow12 Rahul Patwari @rahulpatwari Annahieta Kalantari @akkalantari

Terminal Commands

Every time I need to reinstall my Mac, which has happened more often than I would have guessed, there are certain terminal commands I need to look up. Set length of time Notification Banners Persist Those little notification banners in the upper right hand corner of the screen seem to stay up there forever. Bothers … Continue reading Terminal Commands →

Clinical Reasoning (1st draft)

The goal here is to start teaching clinical reasoning on day 1 of medical school. Though the students don't yet have the medical knowledge to apply, I bet they can learn the process. 01: An Overview The first video gives an overview of the process. There is a lot in here that will be unpacked … Continue reading Clinical Reasoning (1st draft) →

Discharge Instructions

The October edition of EM-RAP had a great section on how to write good discharge instructions. This is not the pre-printed stuff that comes with the EMR but instructions written specifically for each patient. I modified my DCI (discharge instruction macro) to make those points more obvious. You have been diagnosed with ***, this is … Continue reading Discharge Instructions →

HEART Score

Used to risk stratify patients for further cardiac workup in the ER according to risk of major adverse cardiac events (MACE). History 2: highly suspicious 1: moderately suspicious 0: slightly or non-suspicious ECG 2: significant ST-depression 1: non-specific repolarization 0: normal Age 2: > 65 years old 1: 45-65 years old 0: < 45 years … Continue reading HEART Score →

Essentialism

For me, the most important image from Greg McKeown's book "Essentialism" is a circle with "energy" at its center. In one circle, energy is expended in several directions. No net progress is made when adding all these vectors. In a second circle, all the effort vectors are aligned. Adding these vectors takes you somewhere. Your … Continue reading Essentialism →

GTD Weekly Review

I rarely do the the weekly review in the GTD process, but can see its importance to get a handle on the upcoming week. Here's a process I heard on David Allen's podcast. Get Clear Collect Collect Loose Paper and Materials. Find all papers, receipts and other things and put them all in one place. … Continue reading GTD Weekly Review →

RMC: Clinical Bridge – Can’t Miss Diagnoses

RMC Clin Bridge Can't Miss Dx Handout 2016 University of Colorado's Intern Survival Guide

GI Bleed Overview

Here's two short videos giving an overview of upper and lower GI bleeds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP7jRGHWrVw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anivrOGw0mk I start every video with "Now let's talk about..." Pretty annoying. I need a catch phrase.

Rosalind Franklin University Flipped Classroom

The fine folks at Rosalind Franklin University invited me to speak on the Flipped Classroom and the use of technology. You can flip through the slides below or the handout here. You can also download them as a PPTX or PDF file if you'd like. I made some changes from the Rush talk.