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ANNUAL REPORT 2013

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It’s been a great year...

Happy Holidays from the ALiEM team!During this time of year, it is always good to take stock of your life.  At Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM), we decided to reflect on the life of the blog by generating our Year in Review 2013. First, thank you to each of you. Your time, comments, tweets, and feedback are what make this blog successful and dynamic as an educational resource. We appreciate your continued readership and engagement.

Many exciting things have transpired over the past 12 months. We wish to review some of the highlights, as well as give a sneak peek into 2014.

Our Activity

The following are the statistical report from our Google Analytics since migrating to the new WordPress platform in June 2013. Counting statistics from both Blogger and Wordpress, the follow are our statistics for Jan-Dec 2013.

Total Reach:847,642 pageviews

Blogger (Jan 1-May 31, 2013): 302,719 pageviews from 105,170 unique visitors

Wordpress (Jun 13-Dec 13, 2013): 549,741 pageviews from 172,343 unique visitors # of Cities: 10,640 (Figure 1) # of Countries: 195 (Figure 2)

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2013 | ALiEM Year-End Highlights

(Jun.-Dec. 2013)

Figure 2 A heat map of our readership by country. [The darker the color, the more readers] (Jun.-Dec. 2013)

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Highlights of 2013

2013 | ALiEM Year-End Highlights

2013 has been a big year for the ALiEM team. We've had a number of improvements of which we are proud.

1.  Moving from Blogger to Wordpress: We moved the blog from Blogger to a self-hosted Wordpress platform to professionally customize the site and its increasingly more sophisticated features. Thanks to Designer-in-Chief Sue Kim.

2. Expert Peer ReviewThis is the new revolution in peer review and blogs! Click here for the full introduction. We are also thrilled to announce that the Medical Education Innovations paper on this initiative has recently been accepted for publication in the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. Stay tuned for more information.

3. ALiEM Resident Editor & our New Editorial BoardWe began in the fall with the goal of mentoring those interested in the behind-the-scenes operations of  medical education through social media, Dr. Natalie Desouza (@N_Desouza) was added to the team as our first Resident Editor.  Read more here.

In further evaluating our present structure, we also realized that some of our key contributors were functioning in an editorial capacity for ALiEM.  And (just in time for this Annual Review), we are proud to announce the new members of our Editorial Board.

• Teresa Chan MD FRCPC - Associate Editor (MEdIC Series, ALiEM Book Club)

• Bryan Hayes PharmD - Associate Editor (ALiEM Tox/Pharm Series)

• Nikita Joshi MD - Associate Editor (ALiEM Book Club, ALiEM Sim Case Series)

• Salim Rezaie MD - Associate Editor (ALiEM Cardiology Series)

• Brent Thoma MD MA - Associate Editor (MEdIC Series)

Please join us in welcoming and congratulating these valuable ALiEM contributors on their new status.

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Debuting at #21 on the Social Media index, this educational EM blog was kickstarted and by Dr. Salim Rezaie.

We are very proud to have helped with kickstarting a new #FOAMed initiative!

Website: http://rebelem.com/Also: Google+ | Facebook

Welcome and all the best!

Figure 3 A Trend of our Pageview demographics since June 2013

June 8, 2013Wordpress Migration

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4. Increased Engagement Strategy2013 marked a year where we significantly upped the ante with our online engagement strategies.  The following are several ALiEM initiatives where we have focused on engaging and involving more of our educated and amazing emergency medicine community.

• ALiEM Book Club: Led by Drs. Nikita Joshi (@NJoshi8) and Teresa Chan (@TChanMD), the book club is held monthly on the second Friday of the month with the goal of sharing books that can deepen our clinical practice. Follow the discussion with @ALiEMBook and #ALiEMBook

• @ALiEMConf: This Twitter account was created to keep you connected with exciting conferences around the globe.

• AnnalsEM-ALiEM Global Journal Club: We are formally collaborating with the premiere EM journal and ALiEM with the first pilot project being the joint global journal club. Our goal is to transform medical education through improved scholarly participation.

• MEdIC Series: Led by Drs. Teresa Chan and Brent Thoma (@Brent_Thoma), this educational section puts forth challenging dilemmas in medical education cases and sets the dialogue for discussion, professional development, and resolution.

• Residency Programs on Twitter (#EMConf): Dr. Nikita Joshi and Dr. Salim Rezaie (@SRRezaie)  put together a fantastic resource for residency programs to find other programs who are tweeting about medical education.

 5.  New and Improved Teaching ResourcesWe have a continued mandate to actively improve the quality and quantity of our digital scholarship for your engagement. This year we have diversified our content by incorporating new enduring products and resources.  

• ALiEM Sim Case Series: This series was relaunched in December 2013 to provide a design-centered PDF. This PDF provides a comprehensive guide for students, residents, and educators to learn, teach, and evaluate important EM milestones.

• iClickEM: ALiEM became the first blog to incorporate the customized search bar for this intuitive, smart search engine which targets medical content.

• PV cards on AgileMD app: Dr. Michelle Lin’s (@M_Lin) well-known 100+ Paucis Verbis cards are now even easier to access and use. [iOS, Android]

 

@ALiEMConf

Picture by Matt Hamm Used under Creative Commons License by-nc

@ALiEMBook#EMConf

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Innovating with New Partners

New

Partnership

The inaugural Global EM Journal Club was co-hosted by ALiEM and Annals of Emergency Medicine in November 2013. In that month’s Annals of Emergency Medicine journal publication, Berdachl et al published about “Emergency Department Computed Tomography Utilization in the United States and Canada.”

This article was selected by the journal as the featured piece for a Journal Club discussion. In our inaugural global EM journal club, ALiEM and Annals collaborated to provide a more dynamic discussion of some of the posed questions.

The focus was on teaching concepts around HOW to critically appraise a journal article rather than just receive a pre-digested summary statement from a social media site and or textbook.

Three questions were posed by the Annals Editors Drs. David Schriger, Michael Callaham, and Tyler Barrett. On the ALiEM side, we were very proud of the work done by Drs. Michelle Lin, Ryan Radecki and Salim Rezaie facilitating discussions on Twitter and ALiEM. Summaries will be published in an upcoming issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine.

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Coming Soon in 2014

We have two initiatives that you can look forward to in the coming year.  We are sure we will have many more, but for now... Here is a taste test of what we have in store.

1.  Strengthening our collaboration with Annals of Emergency Medicine: 

• Social media discussion forum for Resident Perspective publications 

• Blog reader monthly input into which article is made open-access

2.  SimLIFE-EM video simulation series: Led by Drs. Nikita Joshi, Henry Curtis, and Michelle LIn, this staged, in-situ simulation series will surely take the simulation world by storm by breaking down geographic and financial barriers through the use of technology and social media.

Below: Salim Rezaie, Nikita Joshi, Bryan Hayes, Michelle LinInternational Emergency Medicine Teaching Course

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2013 Thank-you Round Up

Thank-you to the following individuals who avidly contributed to our Twitter and ALiEM website content discussions over the course of the last year.

Expert Peer ReviewersThe following people have contributed to our new Expert Peer Review process in 2013. Thank-you very much for your contributions.

ALiEM Expert Peer ReviewersALiEM Expert Peer ReviewersTyler Barrett, MD MSCIMichael Callaham, MDTeresa Chan, MD FRCPCZlatan Coralic, PharmDChristian Fromm, MDGus M. Garmel, MDLeon Gussow, MDBryan Hayes, PharmDAli Jalali, MDDavid Juurlink, BPhm, MD PhDJonathan LoPresti, MD PhDCatherine Marco, MDAmal Mattu, MDKen Milne, MD CCFP-EMKent Olson, MDTimothy Platts-Mills, MDDavid Schriger, MD MPH

Richard Sinert, DOJonathan Sherbino, MD FRCPCSteve Smith, MDJames Stempien, MDAnand Swaminathan, MD MPHJeff Tabas, MDAndrea Tenner, MDGraham Walker, MDKirsten Weerdenburg- Yeh, MD FRCPCScott Weingart, MDMichelle Welsford, MD FRCPCRob Woods, MD MMed

MEdIC Honor RollBrent & Teresa would also like to thank all their engaged twitter discussants that have contributed to making the first 5 months of the Medical Education in Cases Series (MEdIC series) successful. The Curated Community Commentary is all because of your contributions and thoughts. Keep sharing them with us!

MEdIC Series Honor RollMEdIC Series Honor RollCase 1: Amy Walsh, Anand Swaminathan, Corey Heitz, Dina Wallin, Elisha Targonsky, George F, Justin Ryel, Lindsay Melvin, Michelle Gibson, Nikita Joshi, Richard van Wylick, Rob Bryant, Seth Trueger, Susan Shaw, Terry Kind, Todd Raine, Tom

Case 1: Amy Walsh, Anand Swaminathan, Corey Heitz, Dina Wallin, Elisha Targonsky, George F, Justin Ryel, Lindsay Melvin, Michelle Gibson, Nikita Joshi, Richard van Wylick, Rob Bryant, Seth Trueger, Susan Shaw, Terry Kind, Todd Raine, Tom

Case 2: Rahul Patwari (@RahulPatwari), S. Ludlow RN, Michelle Lin (@M_Lin), Michelle Gibson (@MCG_MedEd), Sandy Dong (@SandyDongMD), Rob Woods (@RobWoodsUofS) , Brent Thoma (@Brent_Thoma), Amy Walsh (@docamywalsh), Nikita Joshi (@njoshi8), Lindsay Melvin (@lmelv) . Matt Siedsma (@matt_siedsma), Eve Purdy (@evepurdy), @ToxicTweets, Teresa Chan (@TChanMD)

Case 2: Rahul Patwari (@RahulPatwari), S. Ludlow RN, Michelle Lin (@M_Lin), Michelle Gibson (@MCG_MedEd), Sandy Dong (@SandyDongMD), Rob Woods (@RobWoodsUofS) , Brent Thoma (@Brent_Thoma), Amy Walsh (@docamywalsh), Nikita Joshi (@njoshi8), Lindsay Melvin (@lmelv) . Matt Siedsma (@matt_siedsma), Eve Purdy (@evepurdy), @ToxicTweets, Teresa Chan (@TChanMD)

Case 3: Tweets Case 3: Blog Comments

Teresa Chan* (@TChanMD)

U. of Ottawa EM (@EmergOttawa)

Esther Choo (@choo_ek)

Nikita Joshi (@njoshi8)

Edmund Kwok (@eddeestyle)

Lindsay Melvin (@LMelv)

Lisa Fields (@Practical Wisdom)

Megan Ranney (@meganranney)

Malkit Singh (@monasingh)

Minerva (@minervies)

Susan Shaw* (@drsusanshaw)

Amy Walsh* (@docAmyEWalsh)

Claudia William (@DrCSWilliam)

@WomenSurgeons

Alia Dh (@alia_dh)

DanicaK CooperCaroline CottrellGary DufresneMichelle Gibson (@MCG_MedEd)Justin Hensley (@EBMGoneWild)

Michelle JohnstonMichelle Lin (@M_Lin)

Lindsay Melvin (@LMelv)

Ken Milne (@TheSGEM)

KANieder (@docnieder)

Anand Swaminathan (@EMSwami)Brent Thoma (@Brent_Thoma)

Amy Walsh (@DocAmyEWalsh)

'Little Kid Doctor''femalemedstudent''alittleCPR'

Case 4: Twitter Case 4: Blog Comments

Adr Born (@ClinicalArts)

Teresa Chan* (@TChanMD)

Esther Choo* (@choo_ek)

Sandy Dong (@SandyDong)

Nikita Joshi (@njoshi8)

Joe Lex* (@JoeLex5)

Eric Holmboe (@Boedudley)

Tim Horeczko (@EMtoghether)

Jonathan Sherbino (@Sherbino)

Nicole Swallow (@doc_swallow)

Megan Ranney (@meganranney)

Amy Walsh* (@DocAmyEWalsh)

James Ahn (@ahnjam)

Justin Hensley (@EBMGoneWild)

Sorabh KhandelwalJill Ken Milne (@TheSGEM)

Eve Purdy(@purdy_eve)Salim Rezaie (@srrezaie)Anne Smith (@annestir)Brent Thoma (@Brent_Thoma)

* Denotes that participant commented both on Twitter & in the blog comments.

ALiEM Featured Contributors

ALiEM Guest Contributors

Kristen Beckler, CTRS, CCLSJavier Benítez, MDTeresa Chan, BEd MD FRCPCZlatan Coralic, PharmDNatalie Desouza, MDJeremy Faust, MD MSBryan Hayes, PharmD, DABATNikita Joshi, MDRahul Patwari, MDMegan Ranney, MD MPHSalim Rezaie, MDTodd Seigel, MDChristina Shenvi, MD PhDBrent Thoma, MD MA

Matt Astin, MDNadia Awad, PharmDSteven Bin, MDJohn Brown, MDRob Bryant, MDKristin Fontes, MDAndy Grock, MDEmily Heil, MDDelphine Huang, MDCindy Hsu, MD PhDJosh Joseph, MDEmily Junck, MDSean Kivlehan, MD MPHTerrance Lee, MDSuzanne Lippert, MS MDArun Nagdev, MDKene Nwoye, MDTimothy Peck, MDSteven Polevoi, MDDan Repplinger, MDHans Rosenberg, MDEric Silman, MDNoah Sugerman, MDDemian Szyld, MD EdMMac Walter, MDJeff Wiswell, MDFred Wu, MHS, PA-CStella Yiu, MD