How To Train the Adult EM Learner

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Traditionally, education consisted of the educator standing in front of a collection of people telling stories and passing along knowledge to the audience. This was termed passive learning and has been the predominant form of medical education for years. With time and the hard work of countless educators and innovators, the world of medical education has changed.

Information is now openly available online through hundreds of free websites and the learner is now able to learn at his or her own pace (called active learning). This has led to increasingly innovative methods of teaching in an attempt to maximize the yield of each educational session. Common examples include the FOAMed (Free Open Access Medical Education) movement through sites such as Twitter and Google+; the flipped classroom, wherein a learner will research the material and then discuss cases during typical lecture times; and interactive online journal clubs, where multiple people are able to discuss papers across geographic boundaries and occasionally with the authors themselves.

This has even begun to permeate major Emergency Medicine journals. The following two articles are extremely valuable and a must-read for anyone involved in medical education.

-Wolff M, Wagner MJ, Poznanski S, et al. Not another boring lecture: engaging learners with active learning techniques. J Emerg Med. 2015 Jan;48(1):85-93. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25440868

-Nickson CP, Cadogan MD. Free Open Access Medical education (FOAM) for the emergency physician. Emerg Med Australas. 2014 Feb;26(1):76-83. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24495067

Looking forward to even more advances! Learn on!

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