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/