smaccGOLD Education Q&A
Casey Parker (who you’ll know from BroomeDocs) and I were lucky enough to moderate a panel discussion on education at smaccGOLD.
The fantastic participants were:
- Jonathan Gatward, Intensivist, Australia
- Rob Rogers, Emergency Physician, USA
- Victoria Brazil, Emergency Physician, USA
- Damian Roland, Paediatric Emergency Physician, UK
- Irma Bilgrami, Intensivist, Australia
- Lauren Westafer, Emergency Medicine Trainee, USA
Questions discussed include:
- Teaching in the context of a busy ED or ICU, including within the limits of the 4 hour rule: sniper teaching, flipping the classroom, in situ simulation and 5 minute teaching
- How do we know if a FOAM resource is valid? Does FOAM lead to ‘Swiss Cheese’ learning? FOAM versus curricula?
- What is the role of Wikipedia as a learning resource? Should FOAM creators be working on Wikipedia?
- How to promote inter-professional and inter-specialty education?
- What about resources for subspecialties like PICU?
- How can junior doctors engage senior doctors in teaching on the job?
- What advice should we give to trainees who want to get involved in education?
- What is the best way to use 2-3 hours of protected teaching time each week?
Chris is an Intensivist and ECMO specialist at The Alfred ICU, where he is Deputy Director (Education). He is a Clinical Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, the Lead for the Clinician Educator Incubator programme, and a CICM First Part Examiner.
He is an internationally recognised Clinician Educator with a passion for helping clinicians learn and for improving the clinical performance of individuals and collectives. He was one of the founders of the FOAM movement (Free Open-Access Medical education) has been recognised for his contributions to education with awards from ANZICS, ANZAHPE, and ACEM.
His one great achievement is being the father of three amazing children.
On Bluesky, he is @precordialthump.bsky.social and on the site that Elon has screwed up, he is @precordialthump.
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