By: Brittany Prevost (@BrittP_27) Like most people in the early spring, I busied myself refreshing newsfeeds and following the active developments of the COVID-19 pandemic as it infiltrated Canadian communities, and subsequently Canadian hospitals. Well […]
By Merle Carter (@MCEMedMD) and Michael A. Gisondi (@MikeGisondi) Case It’s another challenging day in the life of a program director… Your faculty members demand that you fire a resident who consistently underperforms. She isn’t […]
By Warwick Isaacson (@WarwickIsaacson) & Victoria Brazil (@SocraticEM) The Emergency Department is busy. While typing your admission plan for another patient an ECG appears in your peripheral vision. “Could you take a quick look at […]
By Michael A.Gisondi (@MikeGisondi) and Nounou Taleghani (@Benzorv) The Learning Climate Learning climate refers to the mood, tone, or atmosphere experienced by students and teachers in a classroom or clinical learning space. Negative learning climates […]
By P. Logan Weygandt (@LoganWeygandt) and Michael Gisondi (@MikeGisondi) Let’s start with a case: You have the enviable job of residency program director. One of your senior faculty members, an assessment “hawk” by any standard, […]