Exploring design, technology and medicine.

How I Use AI to Enhance My Academic Career (Written By An Academic Physician)

Discover how AI tools like ChatGPT transform academic medicine by enhancing productivity, reducing administrative burdens, and fostering innovation. Explore practical AI applications to streamline your academic career.

The Emergency Department: A Safety Net or a Buffer?

Emergency Departments (EDs) are strained, acting as buffers due to patient boarding and system stress. Rethinking the healthcare system, creating resilience and proper slack can alleviate ED burden.

How to Prioritize Writing in the Busy Life of an Academic Emergency Physician

Boost your academic writing as a physician with daily habits. Learn to balance patient care and scholarly work, prioritize quality, and leverage writing accountability groups for success.

The Role of Human Factors in Creating Effective Solutions

Explore the key to success in innovation: the difference between efficacy and effectiveness. Learn about human-centered design and inclusivity in turning great ideas into real-world solutions with inspiring examples from OXO and more.

Beyond the Mean: Encouraging Risk-Taking in Education and Health Professions

This post explores a human-centered approach to designing a path to health professions. Discover the importance of new ways of thinking, building self-efficacy, and the power of role models.

Turning Content into Knowledge - Leveraging FOAMed for Lifelong Learning in Medicine

A personal knowledge management system is key for physicians to stay current, make connections, and create new knowledge that can shape the future. With the right tools and approach, physicians can learn to think differently and become creators of knowledge that can have an impact.

Resources - Turning Content Into Knowledge

This is a collection of the tools and resources I've found to be most useful in building your Personal Knowledge Management System. I get nothing from any of these. 🖥️CURATED FOAMed & QUALITY EVALUATION TOOLSSocial Media Index (SMi)Social Media IndexALiEMBrent Thoma, MD MAHome - The METRIQ StudyWe

Create value with an innovative mindset

Being innovative is about knowing how to create value for others. Design is the link to get you there.

Use Design to Put out the Fire: protecting against burnout in medicine

Thinking like a designer unlocks tools to create systems within the constraints of life.

Rock gardens, pandas and bonsai: focus on the details to cultivate what matters

To appreciate the end result, you have to focus on the details. The process is more important than the end result.

A thousand cuts to our healthcare system.

The downfall of our healthcare system won't be a swift, dramatic event - it's a slow process of 1000s of insults over time. I'm worried omicron is the last straw.

Mindless Meditations: Your morning routine might be a waste of time.

It had been over 400 days. Every day I would sit and experience my mind. I've been interested in meditation since I was an undergraduate. Having been studying the brain when meditation was gaining popularity and sharing a campus with Richie Davidson [https://centerhealthyminds.org], the world-famous neuroscientist