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Twitter Journal Club Reaches New Heights The numbers are in and we’re excited to announce that this year’s Twitter Journal Club (TJC) had the highest level of engagement to-date with more than 1.4 million impressions! This recurring week-long journal club has been gaining popularity since its inception in January of 2015 and owes its success to its trailblazer and the assistant director of residency, Dr. Ankeet Udani. “We were really excited to team up with the largest journal in anesthesiology,” said Dr. Udani. “The future holds more collaborations with various journals, including the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology.” New this year, Duke co-hosted the TJC discussions with anesthesia societies. Starting the week of February 21 and co-hosted with The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, the fourth
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Duke Anesthesiology residents gather in the Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center for Health Education for another lively Twitter Journal Club discussion.
installment of TJC examined a clinically relevant and engaging pain medicine article, “Pain Phenotypes and Associated Clinical Risk Factors Following Traumatic Amputation.” It was co-written by Duke Anesthesiology faculty, including Drs. Thomas Buchheit, Thomas Van de Ven, John Hsia, David MacLeod, Francis Keefe, and alumnus Dr. Chester “Trip” Buckenmaier. Drs. Buchheit and Hsia were able to join the in-person discussion with anesthesia residents, which added perspective into the research they conducted for the article.
Live tweeters from around the world tuned in the week of May 8 as TJC co-hosted its fifth installment with Anesthesiology, the official journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Leading up to the May journal club, Anesthesiology highlighted the TJC’s success and what participants could expect in an article in their April newsletter of the ASA Monitor. The publicity worked tremendously. The discussion, titled “Self-Reported Mobility in Older Patients Predicts Early Postoperative Outcomes After Elective Noncardiac Surgery,” received live tweets from international participants in Nepal, Canada, and other countries. n
Interactive Learning Initiative Joins SoM Curriculum Medical education has traditionally been passive, mainly using a lecture format. In 2009, Dr. Jeffrey Taekman and former project manager, Michael Steele, spearheaded an initiative called Immersive Learning Environments at Duke (ILE@D). Their grand vision was to become a hub of virtual health care education. Seven years after its launch, they reflect upon the creation of ILE@D as the department has advanced it to the next level by implementing it into the Duke School of Medicine’s curriculum and in a massive open online course on Coursera. What is ILE@D? It leverages commercial video game platforms to build educational modules for health care, effectively engaging students in virtual training environments that can be applied to real-world scenarios. It’s a three-dimensional, collaborative world, essentially acting as an umbrella that encompasses five virtual learning experiences: 1) Stroke – a neurological exam that trains users how to identify the signs and symp-
toms of a stroke 2) Handover – aims to improve communication and decrease preventable adverse events related to operating room to Neuro-ICU handovers 3) Medic – trains Army medics and other medical personnel to manage the top causes of death in Two Duke medical students engaged in virtual training environments. the modern battlefield, including hemorrhage, airway obstruction and tension pneumothorax What are the long-term goals for ILE@D? 4) Hemorrhage – trains clinicians on Using health system data to develop intereffective teamwork and communication active cases to identify and address gaps behaviors in the context of a postpartum in patient care. We’d also like to implement hemorrhage case new training devices that can sense your 5) Sedation – teaches and refreshes the body and actually place you into a true vircognitive skills of rapid sequence intutual environment, such as a mock operating bation and moderate/deep sedation to room. Microsoft HoloLens, which we’re very non-anesthesia providers excited about, will project virtual patients into the actual environment. Though you Who is the target audience of ILE@D? won’t be able to feel or touch, the technoloPrimarily medical and nursing students, gy will know where you are and allow you to but the greatest unmet need is in the interact with a holographic patient. n health system, training physicians and nurses. We believe virtual environments Interested in learning more about ILE@D and screen-based simulation will have or exploring a funding opportunity? a huge impact on the certification and Visit simcenter.duke.edu recertification processes. BluePrint 2016
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