“Communication is not like a conveyor belt where the meaning is transferred from one person to another arriving – and being interpreted – exactly the same way it was sent” Redding and Sincoff (1984) Over the course of the simulation sessions we have observed, the biggest thing that has struck Alex & I has been […]
PonderMed Roundup: November 2018
Friends of PonderMed, I hope you’re all exceptionally well and enjoying the festive period… Here is my November 2018 roundup. November podcast releases *Links below are to blog posts (or “show notes”) with the podcast embedded in the post. You can also find the pods on iTunes and Spotify. PonderMed #8: Dr. Fatima Ahmed. Obs and […]
Blog post published as book chapter!
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!! My first ever blog post – ‘Case 1: Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolff‘ – has been published as a chapter in a new EM textbook: How to Not Kill Your Patients: An ER Doctor’s Guide to Life after Residency. Here is the blurb from the editor/chief author Dr. Sajid Khan… “When my […]
RCEM Learning Podcast – Deliberate Practice Part 2 (featuring PonderingEM)
Earlier this month, Part 2 of my interview with Andy Neill (of Emergency Medicine Ireland fame) was released on the RCEM Learning podcast. Embedded below is the interview: The focus of the interview was Peak, by Anders Ericsson and Robert Poole, a book I’ve reviewed here on PonderingEM. Part 1 of the interview was released in their July 2017 podcast. As ever, I’d love to read […]
The ‘Deliberate Practice Mindset’
Performance improvement is an interest of mine. I have previously blogged and podcasted about the strategies I employed to lift my game (from rock-bottom) when working in an extreme environment – a South African township ED. I first became aware of ‘deliberate practice’ after reading an excellent St. Emlyn’s post last year. I had never encountered […]
