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As you may note from some of my previous posts, I really love medical education. I feel that the time I spend preparing and delivering educational content for medical students and even other residents is really among the highest yield time for as far as learning goes. I'd like to really get into this.
So I have an idea: I'd like to create an online publication whereby doctors (particularly residents) can create short educational presentations to upload and share with their colleagues. The idea is short, to the point presentations about important topics, sometimes taking the form of basically a short journal club presentation, or maybe even just a presentation about an evidence-based topic.
Here's the key: for something like this to be successful, I think such a presentation should meet whatever standards are necessary for it to be worthy of adding to one's CV. This is for two reasons: 1) That it should conform to quality standards because junk presentations, without citations and some level of peer-review, are of little educational value to those who view them, and 2) Because in our publish or perish world, people are always looking to buff their CV.
So, starting a blog isn't the answer here. I need it to be something more substantial. I have no idea what I'd need to do to create such a site/publication or whatever. Would I need to partner with some organization that can accredit the content such that participation would give CMEs? Or would I need to just get some people on board to conduct peer review of the stuff before it goes online to work to make this more rigorous?
If you write someone for medscape or uptodate, that's worthy of a CV even though its not in a pubmed listed journal. So I think there's a way to meet certain standards so that what would be done here amounts to adding real value that can be recognized as a genuine professional activity worthy of a line on a CV.
Anyone have any ideas on how to go about getting something like this started? I'd really love to have a resource whereby I can log on right before bed, watch or participate in a 10 minute educational activity, get a few pearls of knowledge and have that round off a day with a little educational experience. If I made visiting such a site a daily routine, over the course of a few years, I'd be adding volumes to my knowledge base with time that I'd otherwise be wasting posting grumpy cat memes on facebook.
Obviously, I'm interesting in keeping this to internal medicine, which is why I posted that here. Anyone have any thoughts, or more specifically ideas/resources on what it would entail to bring this up to a level where people would be motivated to participate?
So I have an idea: I'd like to create an online publication whereby doctors (particularly residents) can create short educational presentations to upload and share with their colleagues. The idea is short, to the point presentations about important topics, sometimes taking the form of basically a short journal club presentation, or maybe even just a presentation about an evidence-based topic.
Here's the key: for something like this to be successful, I think such a presentation should meet whatever standards are necessary for it to be worthy of adding to one's CV. This is for two reasons: 1) That it should conform to quality standards because junk presentations, without citations and some level of peer-review, are of little educational value to those who view them, and 2) Because in our publish or perish world, people are always looking to buff their CV.
So, starting a blog isn't the answer here. I need it to be something more substantial. I have no idea what I'd need to do to create such a site/publication or whatever. Would I need to partner with some organization that can accredit the content such that participation would give CMEs? Or would I need to just get some people on board to conduct peer review of the stuff before it goes online to work to make this more rigorous?
If you write someone for medscape or uptodate, that's worthy of a CV even though its not in a pubmed listed journal. So I think there's a way to meet certain standards so that what would be done here amounts to adding real value that can be recognized as a genuine professional activity worthy of a line on a CV.
Anyone have any ideas on how to go about getting something like this started? I'd really love to have a resource whereby I can log on right before bed, watch or participate in a 10 minute educational activity, get a few pearls of knowledge and have that round off a day with a little educational experience. If I made visiting such a site a daily routine, over the course of a few years, I'd be adding volumes to my knowledge base with time that I'd otherwise be wasting posting grumpy cat memes on facebook.
Obviously, I'm interesting in keeping this to internal medicine, which is why I posted that here. Anyone have any thoughts, or more specifically ideas/resources on what it would entail to bring this up to a level where people would be motivated to participate?
