About 8 years ago, as a participant in the cool new thing called a
"listserv" where family medicine educators would e-mail each other and
talk about medical education ... someone suggested that we should
create an online library where we could share digital resources. So I
built one
And it was hard to manage, moderate, etc.
People shared viruses in addition to useful resources.
It got messy. So another version was born - which Dave helped to build .. after we built a similar online library for the Crozer-Keystone family medicine residency.
But it still didn't have a team of editors and librarians watching over it. So .. inspired and assisted by Helen Baker and Traci Nolte -- I wrote a grant for STFM to create an infrastructure for the library.
The grant was funded and now we've started work. In addition to creating a spec for the software ... I've ordered up the servers.
We had a great talk last week with the guys from Heal and will likely staeal lots of their code to creat our version ... None of this is an excuse for the paucity of blog entries lately.
I still have to get my lecture notes and links from the PAFP meeting I spoke at a few weeks ago ... but that may have to wait one more day .. In the meantime ..
here are some interesting "must read" suggestions form the not-so-new thing called "Family-L" -- the listserv for family medicine educators, courtesy of Dan Sontheimer:
John Abrahamson's book, "Overdo$ed Amercia".
Another would be the Future of Family Medicine Project report "The Future of Family Medicine: A Collaborative Project of the Family Medicine Community" in Annals of Family Medicine, Vol. 2, Supplement 1, March/April 2004.
A book by the Harvard Negotiation Team Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen, Roger Fisher Good To Great, by Collins (book, in any chain bookstore, on surprising findings after studying persistently great companies)
The article is in the October 28th, 2004 NEJM by Chris Landrigan, MD et al about work hours in IM interns in the ICU. Prospectively they showed that sleep deprived interns made more mistakes than better rested interns.
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton. IOM's Health Professions Education: A Bridge To Quality (part of the Quality Chasm Series).
Chapter 3 "Primary Care :40 Stellar Community Health Centers" in the 2002 IOM Report: "Fostering Rapid Advaces in Health Care"
Health Affairs Web exclusive entitled: "Medicare Spending, The PhysicianWorkforce, And Beneficiaries' Quality Of Care"
The series of articles in NEJM about reforming the VA System via an emphasis on primary care and quality measurement
The Journal, "Health Affairs" Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondatje (author of The English Patient).
Closing the Chart: A Dying Physician Examines Family, Faith, and Medicine By Stephen Hsi
Atul Gawande in his New Yorker article has captured this difference in a much better literary effort. http://newyorker.com/printable/?fact/041206fa_fact
People shared viruses in addition to useful resources.
It got messy. So another version was born - which Dave helped to build .. after we built a similar online library for the Crozer-Keystone family medicine residency.
But it still didn't have a team of editors and librarians watching over it. So .. inspired and assisted by Helen Baker and Traci Nolte -- I wrote a grant for STFM to create an infrastructure for the library.
The grant was funded and now we've started work. In addition to creating a spec for the software ... I've ordered up the servers.
We had a great talk last week with the guys from Heal and will likely staeal lots of their code to creat our version ... None of this is an excuse for the paucity of blog entries lately.
I still have to get my lecture notes and links from the PAFP meeting I spoke at a few weeks ago ... but that may have to wait one more day .. In the meantime ..
here are some interesting "must read" suggestions form the not-so-new thing called "Family-L" -- the listserv for family medicine educators, courtesy of Dan Sontheimer:
John Abrahamson's book, "Overdo$ed Amercia".
Another would be the Future of Family Medicine Project report "The Future of Family Medicine: A Collaborative Project of the Family Medicine Community" in Annals of Family Medicine, Vol. 2, Supplement 1, March/April 2004.
A book by the Harvard Negotiation Team Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss what Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen, Roger Fisher Good To Great, by Collins (book, in any chain bookstore, on surprising findings after studying persistently great companies)
The article is in the October 28th, 2004 NEJM by Chris Landrigan, MD et al about work hours in IM interns in the ICU. Prospectively they showed that sleep deprived interns made more mistakes than better rested interns.
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton. IOM's Health Professions Education: A Bridge To Quality (part of the Quality Chasm Series).
Chapter 3 "Primary Care :40 Stellar Community Health Centers" in the 2002 IOM Report: "Fostering Rapid Advaces in Health Care"
Health Affairs Web exclusive entitled: "Medicare Spending, The PhysicianWorkforce, And Beneficiaries' Quality Of Care"
The series of articles in NEJM about reforming the VA System via an emphasis on primary care and quality measurement
The Journal, "Health Affairs" Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondatje (author of The English Patient).
Closing the Chart: A Dying Physician Examines Family, Faith, and Medicine By Stephen Hsi
Atul Gawande in his New Yorker article has captured this difference in a much better literary effort. http://newyorker.com/printable/?fact/041206fa_fact
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