Featured Resources: KeyLIME Podcast, Nevada Rural Health Clinic, & Twitter
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KeyLIME Podcasts
https://keylimepodcast.libsyn.com/
Key Literature in Medical Education (KeyLIME) is a weekly podcast produced by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Each week, hosts spend 20-30 minutes discussing important, innovative, and impactful trends and topics in medical and health professions education, including a 10-minute in-depth discussion of one recently published paper in the scholarship of teaching and learning. The show is hosted by three clinical educators: Drs. Jason R Frank, Jonathan Serbino, and Linda Snell and one research mythologies expert, Dr. Lara Varpio. The engaging podcast can be accessed online or on your favorite podcast app.
Nevada Rural Outreach Clinic
https://med.unr.edu/student-outreach-clinic/upcoming-clinics/rural-outreach-clinic
The Rural Outreach Clinics aims to provide full-service care to rural communities on a regular basis. They currently provide physical exams, blood work, and a variety of immunizations. They rotate the location we attend every month to ensure continuous care to three rural locations: Yerington, Lovelock, and Silver Springs. Sometimes the clinic focuses on clinics specifically for migrant farm workers.
Twitter
If you already use Twitter to stay informed on medical issues and, especially for our selfish purposes, Medical Education issues, you can skip this article. If not, read on! First, you’ve probably heard a ton about Twitter, and some of the stories of its use and abuse are certainly true, however that doesn’t obviate its practical utility for health care providers. In brief, Twitter is a social media tool that allows those who “tweet” to send brief/pithy messages – each one of which cannot exceed 280 characters (yep, that includes spaces, punctuation, even hard returns). Twitter has the capacity to attach images and videos to a tweet (a message). There’s also a way to generate a shortened URL for a web site, so something like this https://www.lifewire.com/tutorial-intro-to-using-twitter-2654622 can end up like this tinyurl.com/3jtn7pc9.
This tutorial is a quick way to get you started: https://www.lifewire.com/tutorial-intro-to-using-twitter-2654622. The site promises it’ll take 15 minutes or less. We would suggest you not allow Twitter to access your contacts!