How do we structure knowledge? … Enter the rhizome

This is crosspost from ICENet blog. By: Daniel Cabrera and Damian Roland This is the first post in a short series on rhizomatic philosophy and its applications on knowledge and learning. The concept of the rhizome as a representation of the structure of knowledge was first proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus (1980)….

What is a decision?

What is a decision? In recent years we have witnessed a huge increase in the interest and activity around the areas of clinical decision making and cognitive aspects of our clinical practice. This is largely because of the herculean work and influences of emergency medicine heroes like Patrick Croskerry and Gloria Kuhn, constructing on the research and theories…

The future of healthcare

This is a video recorded during Mayo Clinic Emergency Grand Rounds presented by Felix Ankel, MD (@felixankel) and Daniel Cabrera, MD (@CabreraERDR) on April 25th 2017. Healthcare is changing rapidly and the tectonic changes in the way we learn, teach, practice and deliver healthcare are based on a different way to manage knowledge, the close…

The didactic haiku manifesto

It is not necessary to say that we are in the crossroads between the old socratic methods of medical education and the complete adoption of new philosophies such as collaborative learning (social media) or learner delivery co-design (flipped classroom). All these approaches are based on the fact that our learners and some of the teachers have a…

Laws of Simplicity in Emergency Medicine

UPDATE: John Maeda posted these laws on the Laws of Simplicity website. Here how John Maeda’s (@johnmaeda) Laws of Simplicity apply to Emergency Medicine: Reduce. The easiest way to approach a clinical problem is to reduce it to its minimal meaningful expression. Organize. Grouping problems and information make infinite problems appears finite. Time. Decrease time spent in meaningless activities and increasing time on…