Recently the NYP EM residency held a theme day - a Project Design Challenge about how to innovate EM (and medical) education.

Residents and sub-I's all created original content using the principles discussed in the morning sessions - Vine, Haiku Deck, Flipboard, Instagram, Soundcloud, and creating videos were all involved. All in a few hours.

Check out these videos about core medicine topics made by an NYP EM resident. They made this video in about 4 hours, and have explained it more clearly than any textbook ever has. Students becoming the teacher.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPDDyD3H5Ys

Attendings may usually know the most, but there's always things to learn. Former EMTs created this short video showing how to use a finger cut from a glove as a finger tourniquet. Showing this to the group actually prompted a discussion about the best way to tourniquet a finger, with several attendings vowing to try this method the next time they have need. Everybody has something to learn.

https://vine.co/v/eDzxhKL3dAP

There is already so much EM and medicine content out there, sometimes all you need to educate is to curate the already existing content.

This site by Michael Thomashow, Yoshi Shapiro, Yoshi Shapiro & Aditya Makol, gathers together the best resources out there on the Legionnaire's outbreak for any sub-I to catch up on.

https://flipboard.com/@michaelthom4l52/crisis-update%3A-legionnaires%27-dis...

This Haiku Deck linked below is about DKA, but the humor can help sell the message. So much easier to remember a list of symptoms when instead of lines of text you can remember the peeing statue and a horse drinking cola.


https://www.haikudeck.com/dka-short-and-sweet-uncategorized-presentation-H8...

It's easy to feel isolated as a learner, especially in EM. These new tools can help alleviate it. Even just changing the expected lecture format up by creating a wordcloud - like this one here the residents and sub-I's of NYP EM made on the theme day - can engage the learners and get buy-in so they actively learn.

Remember not to go it alone - there is a community of learners just like you out there that want to be engaged.

Even though Vines are only 6 seconds long, they are perfect for quick tips. Frank Ferraioli, Michael Spigner, Ryan O’Halloran, and Thomas Yang, all sub-I's at NYP created a set of vines for EM hacks they learned while they were EMTs. This is a ring removal using the elastic from a oxygen mask.

Video here: https://vine.co/v/eDa7gKFDddz

The rest: https://vine.co/u/1245796842068176896

We will be highlighting more of the content created from the theme day on nypemsubi.blogspot.com.

Stay tuned. Get involved. Innovate your education.

Visit the theme day flipboard: https://flipboard.com/@jstgeorge/core-content-project-8%2F19%2F15-bdceeujbz