During 2016 Mayo Clinic’s Academic Appointments and Promotions Committee began using Social Media scholarship as part of their metrics for promotion. This was based on the recognition of the increasing importance of social media for patient care and engagement, outreach, research and medical education. …

Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. This is a video recorded during Mayo Clinic Emergency Grand Rounds presented by Felix Ankel, MD (@felixankel) and Daniel Cabrera, MD (@CabreraERDR) on April 25th 2017. Healthcare is changing rapidly and the tectonic changes in the way we learn, teach, practice and deliver healthcare are based on a different way to manage knowledge, the close collaboration with artificial intelligence, the ways we create networks and a paradigm change from restricted and episodic healthcare to a continuous unrestricted model.

Mayo Clinic includes Social Media Scholarship Activities in Academic Advancement On Friday, Mayo Clinic’s Academic Appointments and Promotions Committee (AAPC) announced that it is integrating social media and digital activities in the criteria matrix for academic advancement. (Mayo staff can view the announcement here.) This is a game changer for digital academics. Now, you certainly should include your…

The future of Medical Education: organizing, teaching, coexisting and learning from artificial intelligences. By: Daniel Cabrera (@CabreraERDR) The following post is a mutatis mutandis version of my talk at the 2016 ICE Summit: Niagara. Since the emergence of modern natural philosophy, the structures governing information have been based on a…

LIVE.DIE.REPEAT. Gamification, Simulation, Deliberate Practice, Flow and Time Travel This post is a comment on a recent paper published by Sunga et al. About a year ago, I was taking to one of our residents (Rachel Lindor) about how to improve the simulation activities at our residency, while she had…

The tightrope between fear and futility. By: Daniel Cabrera This post is a summary and commentary on Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi‘s (CHICK-sent-mee-hi) work on flow and its relation to education, particularly his book “Applications of Flow in Human Development and Education”. I first heard of Csikszentmihalyi’s work while listening to Chris Hicks…

Moving the meat, the hidden curriculum and how to stop it. By Daniel Cabrera (@CabreraERDR) Moving the meat is medical slang, a phrase I hate. It is derogatory, unethical, amoral, conceptually wrong, dehumanizing and operationally inefficient; yet the term is used every day in thousands of clinics, emergency departments and…

Daniel Cabrera (@cabreraerdr) I think most of us can identify with the scenario of trying to teach an important concept or a clinical pearl using a story. Several times a shift, I find myself telling my residents something like “When I was an intern, we had this X patient with…