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PonderMed #10: Chris Odedun. Doctor, DJ and Radio Host

December 6, 2018 By Pondering EM Leave a Comment

PonderMed #10: Chris Odedun. Doctor, DJ and Radio Host

About Chris Chris is a senior Emergency Medicine trainee in London. He is involved with clinical leadership and is currently on the Royal College of Physicians Chief Registrar scheme. Chris is also a DJ and Radio Host. He creates and produces Music Takes Me Up, which is played on Netil Radio. He curates old and new music from a […]

Simulation Training in Virtual Reality

February 12, 2018 By Pondering EM Leave a Comment

Simulation Training in Virtual Reality

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about how new technology will affect my life as an ED doctor. It’s 2018, and the un-ignorable hype surrounding #MedTech is reaching fever pitch. In my opinion, the big players are machine learning, telemedicine, and virtual reality (VR). Their impact promises to be unprecedented across the spectrum of medical environments, […]

Blog post published as book chapter!

August 30, 2017 By Pondering EM 1 Comment

Blog post published as book chapter!

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!! My first ever blog post – ‘Case 1: Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Wolff‘ – has been published as a chapter in a new EM textbook: How to Not Kill Your Patients: An ER Doctor’s Guide to Life after Residency. Here is the blurb from the editor/chief author Dr. Sajid Khan… “When my […]

RCEM Learning Podcast – Deliberate Practice Part 2 (featuring PonderingEM)

August 29, 2017 By Pondering EM Leave a Comment

RCEM Learning Podcast – Deliberate Practice Part 2 (featuring PonderingEM)

Earlier this month, Part 2 of my interview with Andy Neill (of Emergency Medicine Ireland fame) was released on the RCEM Learning podcast. Embedded below is the interview: The focus of the interview was Peak, by Anders Ericsson and Robert Poole, a book I’ve reviewed here on PonderingEM. Part 1 of the interview was released in their July 2017 podcast. As ever, I’d love to read […]

‘My Mental Toughness Manifesto’ Part 2: PRACTICE

March 15, 2017 By Pondering EM 3 Comments

‘My Mental Toughness Manifesto’ Part 2: PRACTICE

In MMTM Part 1, two-step cognitive appraisals were explained. This process dictates whether one enters a challenged or threatened mindset in the event where an immediate performance is required under acute stress. Feeling challenged, of course, is one of the two chief components of a mentally tough individual. “I am 100% committed” “I feel challenged” In this post, we […]

The ‘Deliberate Practice Mindset’

January 23, 2017 By Pondering EM 4 Comments

The ‘Deliberate Practice Mindset’

Performance improvement is an interest of mine. I have previously blogged and podcasted about the strategies I employed to lift my game (from rock-bottom) when working in an extreme environment – a South African township ED. I first became aware of ‘deliberate practice’ after reading an excellent St. Emlyn’s post last year. I had never encountered […]

EMJ Blog – What do Emergency Medicine and Donald J. Trump have in common?

December 8, 2016 By Pondering EM Leave a Comment

EMJ Blog – What do Emergency Medicine and Donald J. Trump have in common?

In the aftermath of Donald J. Trump’s US Presidential election victory, I expressed outrage via my keyboard. That led to the creation of a blog post that’s now published on the EMJ Blog. In the post, I use the Trump phenomenon as a vehicle for discussing the alarming lack of basic human decency that I witness on an almost […]

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Reflecting on two months as a Sydney HEMS registrar

*Originally posted on the Sydney HEMS blog Uniform fitted. Induction complete. 10-mission milestone reached. It has been a learning frenzy. I’m a UK-trained emergency physician, and am two months into my year as a Sydney HEMS registrar. Some of my early reflections on the experience have had time to crystallise into bloggable form… I’m one […]

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