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All change please

December 15, 2011 By Mike Cadogan 1 Comment

With the festive season upon us…why not open the presents early? We have updated the podcasting archives

Filed Under: Blog News, Education, Emergency Medicine, Featured, Podcast Tagged With: Emergency Medicine, emergency medicine podcast, EMRAP, emrapee, ercast, facebook, podcast, smartem, Twitter

The Social Media Conversation

November 8, 2011 By Mike Cadogan

Talk 2: The conversation discussing the RISE (Read, Interpret, Share, Explore) of social media in the context of clinical medicine

Filed Under: Bookmarking, Education, eLearning, Emergency Medicine, Facebook, Featured, Health, Networking, Social Media, Twitter, Web 2.0, Web Culture Tagged With: conversation, Expliore, facebook, G+, Google Plus, interconnectivity, Interpret, Linkedin, Read, RISE of social media, share, Social Media, social media conversation, Twitter

Path140

April 5, 2011 By Chris Nickson 3 Comments

Is it possible to summarise all of human pathology into 140 characters or less? Michelle Johnston (aka @Eleytherius) thinks so…

Filed Under: Australia, Basic Science, eLearning, Emergency Medicine, Featured, Twitter, Web 2.0 Tagged With: #path140, eleytherius, michelle johnston, pathology, Twitter

The LITFL Review 003

January 24, 2011 By Kane Guthrie Leave a Comment

LITFL Review a regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneak peaks and shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care

Filed Under: Blog News, Bloggers, Education, Emergency Medicine, Featured, Health, LITFL review, Reviews, Twitter, Web 2.0, Web Culture, Website Tagged With: AirwayCam, Body Packers, Human Stampede, hyponatremia, Nursemaid Elbow, Open Thoracoscopy, peer review, Twitter, VIPER

Emergency Medicine Tweducation

January 11, 2011 By Chris Nickson 1 Comment

Thumb_Emergency

Twitter is a great tool to keeping your finger on the emergency medicine pulse. In this video Iain Beardsell shows you how it all works.

Filed Under: Education, eLearning, Emergency Medicine, Twitter, Web 2.0 Tagged With: blog, Education, iain beardsell, online, semep, southampton emergency medicine education project, Twitter

The LITFL Review 001

January 10, 2011 By Kane Guthrie 12 Comments

LITFL Review a regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneak peaks and shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care

Filed Under: Blog News, Bloggers, Education, Emergency Medicine, Featured, Intensive Care, LITFL review, Reviews, Shout Out, Social Media, Twitter, Web 2.0, Web Culture Tagged With: Acetaminophen Toxicity, DMAA, kidney stone, Less is More in Sepsis, naloxone, Posterior Stroke, Twitter, Vertigo

Never Kiss a Jellyfish

January 17, 2010 By Chris Nickson 1 Comment

Never kiss a jellyfish

Although I ‘love’ jellyfish from the point of view of a clinician, I avoid getting close and personal’ with them. Recently I plunged face first into a jellyfish

Filed Under: Envenomation, Featured, Medical Humor, Western Australia, Wilderness Medicine Tagged With: empathy, face, first aid, jellyfish, Medical Humor, nipple tassle, sting, Twitter

Australian General Practice and Social Media

November 14, 2009 By Mike Cadogan Leave a Comment

Griffith University is undertaking a nationwide survey in an attempt to explore Australian general practitioners’ World Wide Web, Internet and Social Media / Web 2.0 usage to deliver health care in the early 21st century. This survey is the first Australia wide study into general practitioners’ usage trends and impact associated with such modern communication applications and health care delivery. The study is being organised by Dr Wayne Usher and this is the Link to the survey

Filed Under: Bookmarking, Networking, Social Media, Twitter, Web 2.0, Web Culture Tagged With: Australia, facebook, General Practice, GP, MedConnect, Su.Pr, Survey, Topsy, Twitter, web

Information overload

July 8, 2009 By Chris Nickson 11 Comments

A question asked at the 2009 ACEM Winter Symposium following our presentation on ‘The Web 2.0 Rollercoaster’ was: How can emergency physicians deal with information overload?

Filed Under: Bookmarking, Education, eLearning, Emergency Medicine, Featured, Health Informatics, Networking, Search, Social Media, Web 2.0 Tagged With: aggregator, blog, Emergency Medicine, feed, filter, filter failure, informatics, information overload, journal, knowledge needs, medicine, multi-task, multi-tasking, multitask, multitasking, reader, Search, social bookmarking, summaries, time management, Twitter

Web 2.0 for Emergency Physicians

July 7, 2009 By Chris Nickson 3 Comments

Web 1.0 versus Web 2.0

Many Emergency Physicians are unfamiliar with the concept of Web 2.0, the diversity of Web 2.0 resources, and how to use these resources to enhance their clinical practice and professional development.

Filed Under: Ausenclature, Bookmarking, Education, eLearning, Emergency Medicine, Evidence Based Medicine, Featured, Health Informatics, lecture notes, Networking, Search, Searchengine, Twitter, Web 2.0 Tagged With: blog, Emergency Medicine, knowledge needs, microblogging, podcast, roller-coaster, rollercoaster, social bookmarking, Social Media, social networking, Twitter, Web 2.0, wiki