IMreasoning - Clinical reasoning for Doctors and Students (general)

We chat once again with Gurpreet Dhaliwal, this time about what it takes to become a master diagnostician.  We discuss the main strategies; seeing many cases, deliberate training, getting feedback, closing the loop, and others.

Direct download: episode_42_becoming_an_expert_diagnostician_-_Goop_-_30718_8.16_AM.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:24pm NZST

We discuss the importance of the words that we choose to use in our medical documentation.  Words matter! They can generate stigma, and they can bias the decisions we subsequently make as practitioners.

Direct download: episode_41_Words_post_amp.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:45pm NZST

It was a pleasure to finally get back to case-solving! Enjoy another interesting case of STC with our friend and colleague Rahul Gandhi, who is galavanting around the world getting super smart, so he can fix everything.

Direct download: episode_40_STC_International_Rahul_post_amp.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:55am NZST

It was a pleasure to finally get back to case-solving! Enjoy another interesting case of STC with our friend and colleague Rahul Gandhi, who is galavanting around the world getting super smart, so he can fix everything.

Direct download: episode_40_STC_International_Rahul_post_amp.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:55am NZST

Some of you may have heard of the double tragedy involving Jack Adcock, a six year old who died from sepsis and Dr. Bawa-Garba, a pediatric trainee in the UK convicted of manslaughter in relation to his death and prevented from ever working again. Justice or a clear case of scapegoating?

Listen as we discuss this troubling case and its far-reaching implications for transparency, honest reflection, and patient safety.

Direct download: episode_39_Bawa_Garba_-_140318_1.25_PM.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:59pm NZST

We're back after a long summer break.  Enjoy this episode on uncertainty in medicine.  We talk to Arabella Simpkin, an English paediatrician, working in Boston, who spends a lot of time thinking and writing about uncertainty and our need to embrace it, or at the very least, tolerate it graciously.

Direct download: episode_Arabella_Simpkin_pre_amp.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:09pm NZST

If you missed us live on Facebook last week, here's you chance to catch up.  Enjoy our STC session.  The case is from Australia, sent to us by Elise Perger (Allan) and Alison Miller... and we invited Chang as a guest host, back by popular demand.

Or, you can still watch the Facebook video at the link below.

https://www.facebook.com/IMreasoning/videos/1974175999573953/

Let us know if you liked the Facebook live event.  We can do it again!

Direct download: episode_37_STC_International_Live_event_-_151217_2.53_PM.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:23am NZST

Enjoy our live Stump the Chumps at Main Medical Centre.  We were honoured to be invited by Bob Trowbridge and it was a pleasure to visit Portland, Maine.

Direct download: episode_36_STC_at_MMC_-_151117_7.00_AM.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:22am NZST

Part two of our exploration of the connections between art, artistic thinking, creativity, with clinical reasoning and diagnosis.

We speak to Alexa Miller, a medical educator who uses arts-based learning and visual thinking skills to train students and seasoned professionals alike to better observe, describe, communicate, and to tolerate uncertainty.

We also speak with Jay Baruch, a writer, medical educator, and emergency doctor who is also the director the clinical arts and humanities at Brown Medical School.

Direct download: episode_35_-_turning_the_wheel_part_2_Alexa_edits_amplified.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:37pm NZST

Another enjoyable Diagnostic Error in Medicine conference, this time in Art's home town of Boston (actually, Newton...).  In this episode we discuss our thoughts inspired by one of the sessions, run by Doug Salvador and Harry Hoar from Baystate Medical Centre. They addressed how to get one's own hospital administration to engage in Diagnostic Error.  Remember to check the website IMreasoning.com for the attachment so you can follow along while you listen.