Feb 15, 2016
Simulation is one of the most important advances in healthcare education and skills training of our generation. We now have simulation mannequins that can blink, breath, or even give birth thus allowing us to practice scenarios and skills before we encounter them in real patients. However, these sim dummies are not real...
Feb 11, 2016
Are you ready for this rumble in the urban jungle?? Chris Ho vs Joe Bellezzo in the no holds barred debate about whether ECMO CPR is a step too far? The next cage match from SMACC Chicago.
Chris and Joe are the director and vice-director respectively, of Emergency Medicine at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San...
Feb 9, 2016
Working night shifts is a part of medicine that we have come to accept. We work these shift because generations of people before us had done it. But could working night shifts have negative consequences? Night shifts have been shown to be detrimental to patient safety by increasing errors in medication...
Feb 8, 2016
Patients are at risk – from the moment they begin their healthcare journey. They are at risk of bad outcomes (as defined by us) and of bad experience (as can only be defined by them) Patient safety experts like James Reason, and groups like the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) have prompted us to think...
Feb 4, 2016
In this talk from SMACC Chicago 2015, Larry Chu takes a step back from the clinical side of things to discuss Innovating Medical Education.
Dr Larry Chu is an Associate Professor of Anaesthesiology and the Executive Director of Stanford Medicine X. Medicine X is an initiative from the Stanford AIM lab. It is a project...