Tag: Medical education
The new Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA) for UK medical students and a bespoke St Emlyn’s Undergraduate Curriculum
Introduction It may come as a surprise to many of our colleagues outside the UK (and our patients) that the UK has never had a nationwide examination for final year medical students before they qualify …
Introducing the St Emlyn’s Lesson Plans
We are delighted to introduce you to the “St Emlyn’s Lesson Plans“, which we hope will help structure some of your education sessions over coming months. We currently have many of sessions that you might …
We can improve your learning with no effort at all here at St Emlyn’s
“Roll-up roll-up! Ladies and gentlemen, I am going to tell you about this miracle we are offering here at St. Emlyns that can improve your learning, make you live longer, reduce your risk of developing …
Breaking down tribalism. #onetribeEMTA St Emlyn’s
This is the basic script that supported my presentation, “Breaking Down Tribalism”. I recently presented this at EMTA2018, the Emergency Medicine Trainees Association conference in Cardiff. It is a privilege to be allowed to be …
South Africa as a Medical Student Elective: Claire Bromley
As a medical student undertaking a year-long placement in St Emlyn’s ED, I was kindly invited to write this post about my recent elective in Cape Town. I’m someone who’s a bit (very) keen on …
Education theories you should know: Cognitive load theory. St Emlyn’s
I was lucky enough to be involved recently with a conference in Virchester that brought together some great clinical educators from across the world. During the conference, there was a lot of talk about cognitive …
A FeminEM in NYC – Reflections from #FIX18 Part One
Last week I travelled from Manchester (for St Emlyn’s Live and Teaching Manchester) to NYC for #FIX181. FIX – the FemInEM1 ideas exchange – is in its second year, and having been unable to attend …
JC: Cricoid Pressure and RSI, do we still need it? St Emlyn’s
This blog reviews the first large randomised controlled trial of cricoid pressure in emergency patients as published in JAMA Surgery, October 2018. Cricoid pressure is controversial. Although it has been taught in anaesthesia practice, since …
Teaching and Learning in Stretched environments. RSM 2018. St Emlyn’s
This blog links to a presentation I am giving in London on the 19/10/18 on the subject of learning in stretched environments, or at least that’s the official title. My original title was ‘teaching in …
Podcast: August 2018 round up of the St Emlyn’s blog
A little later than planned, but here is the podcast round up of the St Emlyn’s blog for August 2018. The following blogs are discussed. Lessons learned at EMSA https://www.stemlynsblog.org/lessons-learned-at-emsa18/ Troponin and Biotin https://www.stemlynsblog.org/troponin-and-biotin-a-lethal-combination/ …