What happened to the that little boy on the Preview Icon? Preview plays a big part of my workflow for reading and annotating PDF's stored in Papers 3. I highlight, circle things, and add a lot of text, then all annotations are saved automatically back into the Papers library. Preview and Papers work together more … Continue reading Preview 7 vs Preview 8
π day & RPN Calculator.app
March 14th, or π-day, this year takes on additional numerical significance. Only once in a hundred years we are able to celebrate π to its billionth decimal place. 3.141592653 3/14/15 9:26:53 I wonder if Galileo Galilei geeked out on 3/14/1592 6:53:59. In other mathematically geeky news, while doing several calculations on my Mac I was … Continue reading π day & RPN Calculator.app
Sample problem answers
Here are the answers from the previous set of sample problems, again thanks to Drs. John and Lynch. Atrial Fibrillation answers Odds and Risk Ratios Screening Tests Practice Final
Sample problems for the test
Hello students, here are a few extra problem sets to help you prepare for the exam. I've posted them here so that you can start a discussion amongst yourselves in the comments regarding the answers. Some of you may recognize these as the problem sets from Dr. John's group. (Thanks Dr. John for creating these … Continue reading Sample problems for the test
Risk Ratios and Odds Ratios
Seems that in prior sessions there was some confusion about odds ratios and risk ratios. I made a video to hopefully clear some of that up and explain how I think about them. I also stole the pie graph idea from Anthony J. Viera's 2008 paper in the Southern Medical Journal. Let me know in … Continue reading Risk Ratios and Odds Ratios
Odds vs Risk Ratios
Odds ratios and risk ratios always confused me. I never really understood the reason behind having an odds ratio. It is so unintuitive to me, even still. There's a great article from the Southern Medical Journal that explains it all! Watch the video then read the article. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOtoV2Kjb0o Viera AJ. Odds ratios and risk ratios: … Continue reading Odds vs Risk Ratios
Drowning
Here are four videos on Drowning. These are also cross-posted on Stella Yiu and my other site, The Flipped EM Classroom. Drowning 01: Pathophysiology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6aFlN2l8U4 Drowning 02: Rescue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnZW-UFs69M Drowning 03: Treatment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAYGA5GBP6A Thanks!
You asked for EBM Handouts… we’d like to make them for you
Dear students, We heard that you would like handouts to go along with the videos. Help us by letting us know what exactly you'd like in these handouts? We obviously cannot type the videos verbatim, but we can provide a summary. Or would you just like the formulas? Here's a link to a Google Document … Continue reading You asked for EBM Handouts… we’d like to make them for you
Instructional Scaffolding in the Pre-Brief
students walked into the sim lab like wide-eyed deer in the headlights their performance pretty much mirrored that analogy did they learn anything just by being scared? pre-briefs are defined as short sessions before the simulation set expectations and roles (take this thing seriously) familiarize students with equipment and debrief procedures but teaching doesn't usually … Continue reading Instructional Scaffolding in the Pre-Brief
Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
Systematic reviews sit atop the evidence-based medicine pyramid as the strongest form of evidence we have. This is so because it incorporates more data than individual studies. To avoid bias in making reviews, the authors need to follow a systematic process. In this video we look at this process the authors would follow and you … Continue reading Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
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