Emergency Medicine Education: Learning as a Resident Vineet Kumar Sharma PGY-3 08/09/19
Emergency Medicine Education:
Learning as a Resident
Vineet Kumar Sharma PGY-308/09/19
Outline/Objectives
Graduated learning Understanding what type of learner you are
Educational resources How to utilize your resources
Graduated Learning
Sub – Intern/4th
year medical student
Intern PGY-2 Senior
Sub - Intern
Basics – understanding EM mindset EM basic Patient Presentations
Interns
Build a solid foundation and focus on fundamentals EM Basic EMRA resources - https://www.emra.org/about- emra/publications/bookstore/
PGY-2
Just survive Push yourself w/ volume of patient and
expanding your medical knowledge during ICU months Vents Meds – pressors, fluids, reversal
agents, intubation meds Procedures
Seniors
Critical Care Emergency Medicine
Consultants/Faculty
How do you learn?
What type of learner are you? Educationplanner.org – quick 1-3 min quiz
breaks down the type of learner you are (visual vs. auditory vs. tactile)
Resources
Visual Learners: Books
Internet/Videos/FOAMProcedural Videos
Auditory Learners: Podcasts
Tactile Learners: Clinical (seeing more patients, reading up on your patients,
reviewing your own EKGs/CXR/CTs, doing US)
WikiEM, UptodateConsultants
Books
Journals/Magazines
FOAM
Podcasts
Q-bank/Clinical Resources
How to best use all these Resources??
Take home points
Understand how you best learn and use the necessary resources that work for you
Aim to learn one thing from each shift Make note of your memorable cases/sickest patients Ask your seniors/attendings questions, your education/learning is
important to us (the better you are, the easier our job becomes ;) Work hard – strive to be the hardest worker in the department
(people will notice) Remember your why!
Most importantly, only a healthy resident (mentally/physically) can best serve and truly learn from his/her patients
https://www.emra.org/about-emra/publications/recommended-blogs-and-podcasts/