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The Hat Rack

Continuing Professional Development

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Find Something to Hang Your Hat On! Listen to The Hat Rack podcast where physicians in practice gain access to the strategies that Continuing Medical Education (CME)/Continuing Professional Development (CPD) experts and influencers use to effectively plan CME to implement change in their professional practice. The Hat Rack guests draw from their extensive experience as developers, contributors and promoters of CME/CPD, providing insights at local, provincial, national and international level ...
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Hosts, Alex Finch, MD and Venk Bellamkonda, MD explore topics relevant to the practice, education or research of emergency medicine. Enjoy interviews with people on the front lines, thought leaders from around the world, and the comedy and drama of life when it intersects with emergency care. Follow us on X: @AlwaysOnEM Email: AlwaysOnEM@gmail.com
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Date: October 28, 2024 Reference: Verma et al. Clinical evaluation of a machine learning–based early warning system for patient deterioration. CMAJ September 2024 Guest Skeptic: Michael Page is currently the Director of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Commercialization at Unity Health Toronto. He leads an AI team intending to improve patient outcomes …
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Season 2 - Episode 2 In this episode of The Hat Rack, we chat with Dr. Vladimir Yakovishin, a Western University alumnus with a powerful story of resilience in the face of adversity. Dr. Yakovishin shares his journey of unexpectedly losing his vision during medical school and the impact it had on his path to psychiatry. His insights reveal how ment…
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Dr. Mark Mannenbach, emeritus pediatric emergency physician, former chairperson of pediatric emergency medicine at Mayo Clinic and career long advocate for children comes back on the show to talk through nonaccidental trauma in children in a two part series. In this second part, we talk through mimics of abuse, second victim syndrome related to car…
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Date: October 28, 2024 Reference: Woelfle T et al. Benchmarking Human–AI collaboration for common evidence appraisal tools. J Clin Epi Sept 2024. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Laura Walker is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and the vice chair for digital emergency medicine at the Mayo Clinic. In addition to finding ways to use technology in emerg…
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Date: October 29, 2024 Reference: Galili et al. Low dose ketamine as an adjunct to morphine: a randomized controlled trial among patients with and without current opioid use. AEM Oct 2024. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Neil Dasgupta is an emergency medicine physician and ED intensivist from Long Island, NY. He is the Vice Chair of the Emergency Department […]…
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Date: October 29, 2024 Reference: Galili et al. Low dose ketamine as an adjunct to morphine: a randomized controlled trial among patients with and without current opioid use. AEM Oct 2024. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Neil Dasgupta is an emergency medicine physician and ED intensivist from Long Island, NY. He is the Vice Chair of the Emergency Department […]…
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Dr. Mark Mannenbach, emeritus pediatric emergency physician, former chairperson of pediatric emergency medicine at Mayo Clinic and career long advocate for children comes back on the show to talk through nonaccidental trauma in children in a two part series. In this first part, we talk through the approach to sharing the concern that you have with …
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Date: October 7, 2024 Reference: Nguyen et al. Comparison of Nebulized Ketamine to Intravenous Subdissociative Dose Ketamine for Treating Acute Painful Conditions in the Emergency Department: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind, Double-Dummy Controlled Trial. Annals of EM 2024. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Brendan Freeman is an emergency medicine physici…
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Dr. Pritish Tosh, consultant physician in Infectious Diseases, and Supply Chain Management specialist for Mayo Clinic talks through the relationship between our clinical delivery of care and the strength of our supply chain practices. Our recent experiences with facemasks in the pandemic, the daily threats to medication access, and the events of re…
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Reference: Ma K et al. A national survey of children’s experiences and needs when attending Canadian pediatric emergency departments. PLoS One. June 2024 Date: Oct 1, 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Andrew (Andy) Tagg is an Emergency Physician with a special interest in education and lifelong learning. He is the co-founder of website lead of Don’t […] The …
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Date: October 2, 2024 Reference: Paxton et al. Headpulse measurement can reliably identify large-vessel occlusion stroke in prehospital suspected stroke patients: Results from the EPISODE-PS-COVID study. AEM Sept 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Lauren Westafer an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School –…
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Dr. Sarayna McGuire is an emergency physician who has been investigating workplace violence in the ED and in the prehospital setting. She and Dr. Casey Clements, who is the chief safety officer for Rochester Mayo Clinic campus talk with Venk and Alex about the violence in the emergency department. The scope of the problem is staggering, the impact …
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Date: September 23, 2024 Reference: Essat et al. Diagnostic Accuracy of D-Dimer for Acute Aortic Syndromes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Annals of Emergency Medicine, May 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Casey Parker is a Rural Generalist from Australia who is also an ultrasounder. Case: You are working a busy shift in a rural emergency department (…
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Season 2 - Episode 1 Join The Hat Rack as we explore the realities of rural medical practice. Dr. Ken Milne, a seasoned emergency physician, and Dr. Matt Breton, a newly practicing family doctor, discuss the unique challenges of continuing medical education (CME) in rural environments, balancing limited resources with high demands. Learn about inno…
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Date: September 18, 2024 Reference: Dillon et al. Naloxone and Patient Outcomes in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests in California. JAMA Network Open. August 20, 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Chris Root is an emergency medicine and emergency medicine service (EMS) physician at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Before attending medical school, he w…
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Summary In this episode of the Overrun Podcast, the hosts discuss the importance of EMS education, the role of conferences, and the impact of misinformation in the field. They critique the Stand and Deliver program and address the need for evidence-based practices while navigating biases in EMS. The conversation emphasizes the importance of mentors…
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Ischemic heart disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. While atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (CAD) is the focus of most outpatient and inpatient evaluations for cardiovascular symptoms, up to two thirds of patients suffer from myocardial ischemia with non-obstructive coronary arteries (INOCA). Patients with INOCA have unique …
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Date: September 12, 2024 Reference: Anderson et al. Full dose challenge of moderate, severe and unknown beta-lactam allergies in the emergency department. AEM August 2024. Guest Skeptic: Dr. Kirsty Challen is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. Case: It’s another day, another dollar in the emergency department (ED).…
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Dr. Adela Cope breaks down pelvic inflammatory disease, tubo-ovarian abscess, ovarian torsion, ectopic pregnancy and more in this densely packed chapter of Always on EM. Tune in as Alex and Venk also try to figure out which one has the correct mental model of PID and who will ask the first stupid question. CONTACTS X - @AlwaysOnEM; @VenkBellamkonda…
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Date: August 30, 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Mel Herbert is a famous Emergency Medicine Physician, award-winning educator, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Mel founded both EM:RAP which creates and distributes Emergency Medicine education in over 160 countries. He also started a non-profit company called EM:RAP GO. This is an SGEM Xtra to end Season#12…
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Episode 11: CPD Horizons Summer Series In this episode, Dr. Michelle Lee Jones, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences at Schulich, discusses the development and impact of social accountability rounds within her department. She explains the rationale behind this initiative, the diverse topics covered, and the imp…
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Summary In this conversation, Dan Schwester interviews Dan Gerard, a senior medic, about the generational divide in EMS and the importance of learning from experienced medics. They discuss the need for mentorship and the transfer of knowledge from senior medics to younger generations. They also highlight the importance of interpersonal dynamics, ob…
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Date: August 19, 2024 Reference: Partyka et al. Serratus Anterior Plane Blocks for Early Rib Fracture Pain Management: The SABRE Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Surg 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Sean Baldwin is an Emergency Physician practising in Sydney, Australia in both a large tertiary emergency department and a small regional emergency department. …
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Episode 10: CPD Horizons Summer Series In this episode, Dr. Sabe De, an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology and the recipient of the Schulich Award of Excellence in Continuing Medical Education, shares his experiences in coordinating large virtual CPD events, including the Western University Virtual Echo Symposium and the …
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Date: August 13, 2024 Guest Skeptics: We have two guest skeptics for this SGEM Xtra episode. Dr. Francisco Campillo Palma is an Emergency Medicine doctor. He works in prehospital (EMS and HEMS), and at Morales Meseguer Hospital in public medical service in Murcia, Spain. Franciso has postgraduate Master’s degrees in emergencies and urgent care, cli…
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Episode 09: CPD Horizons Summer Series In this episode, Dr. Rookaya Mather, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, discusses the critical importance of operating room ergonomics and the prevention of musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries among healthcare professionals. She shares her personal experience with a work-related injury and t…
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This past winter, Dr. Rich Griffey, healthcare quality leader from Washington University School of Medicine and Emergency Medicine, came to present grand rounds on a new way to care for patients with mild to moderate DKA, which they call the SQuID protocol. This talk serves to inspire us to look even at some of our well established conditions and s…
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Date: July 29, 2024 Reference: Connolly SJ et al (ANNEXA-I investigators) Andexanet for Factor Xa Inhibitor–Associated Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage. NEJM May 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Vasisht Srinivasan is an Emergency Medicine physician and neurointensivist at the University of Washington and Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, WA. He is an assi…
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Episode 08: CPD Horizons Summer Series In this episode, Dr. Tim Nguyen, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oncology, presents findings from a national survey of Canadian oncologists, which aimed to understand their preferences and barriers regarding continuing professional development (CPD). He discusses key insights, such as the value pla…
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Date: July 31, 2024 Reference: Gonzales RE, Seeburger EF, Friedman AB, and Agarwal AK. Patient perceptions of behavioral flags in the emergency department: A qualitative analysis. AEM July 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Neil Dasgupta is an emergency medicine physician and ED intensivist from Long Island, NY. He is the Vice Chair of the Emergency Departmen…
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