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Butterfly iQ Moments – Should Med Students Have a POCUS?

August 21, 2019 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

During its revered white coat ceremony last week The University of California Irvine School of Medicine gave Butterfly iQ pocket ultrasound devices to its medical students. The future, it seems, belongs to POCUS (point of care ultrasound). Twitter lit up. Social sentiment pinned the Butterfly iQ as the new stethoscope. Every armchair futurist was over the ... Continue Reading about Butterfly iQ Moments – Should Med Students Have a POCUS?

Tagged With: Medical education, technology

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Advice for Medical Graduates

June 21, 2019 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

Every year that physicians have used social media, we’ve been offering advice for medical graduates. Tips for surviving the unsurvivable are almost too numerous to follow on Twitter. They take the shape of a virtual Little Engine That Could. “I think you can. I think you can,” we tell them. But the reality that few of us ever like to disclose is that change ... Continue Reading about Advice for Medical Graduates

Tagged With: Medical education

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What Medical Students Need to Know – The Zero-Sum Curriculum

March 19, 2019 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

You don’t have to spend too much time on Twitter to find ideas about what people think medical students need to know. From health economics and climate change to value-based care and informatics, it seems there’s no shortage of new competencies. And every person with a new suggestion about what doctors need to master believes their idea would be transformative. ... Continue Reading about What Medical Students Need to Know – The Zero-Sum Curriculum

Tagged With: Medical education

Future Medicine, Physicians

Medicine’s Endless Newbies

December 5, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

Medical life in the future will be a series of real-time upgrades. We will all be endless newbies. That bears repeating. All of us—every one of us—will be endless newbies in the future simply trying to keep up. Here’s why: First, most of the important technologies that will dominate life 30 years from now have not yet been invented, so naturally you’ll be a newbie to ... Continue Reading about Medicine’s Endless Newbies

Tagged With: MD Future, Medical education

Physicians

What Did the Rectal Examination Show?

August 30, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: 2 minutes

When I was a medical student I had an attending who would fail medical students who failed to universally perform the rectal examination. He would gloat on rounds when reviewing admissions with the trainees. Stopping dramatically during the middle of the presentation of the physical exam, he would smile broadly, look around at the team and ask, “So what did the ... Continue Reading about What Did the Rectal Examination Show?

Tagged With: Medical education

Physicians, Process/Flow

The Danger of What Doctors Were Trained to Do

June 28, 2018 By Bryan Vartabedian · Reading Time: < 1 minute

I hear this a lot from young and mid-career physicians in the face of new information, “But I was trained to...” 'I was trained’ suggests knowledge and standards are static. The way things were done is the way things are done. It fuels the myth that our mentors could do no wrong and they knew everything. 'I was trained’ is a dangerous way to think. It closes us ... Continue Reading about The Danger of What Doctors Were Trained to Do

Tagged With: Eric Topol, Medical education

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Bryan Vartabedian is a pediatrician at Baylor College of Medicine / Texas Children’s Hospital and one of health care’s influential voices on technology & medicine.
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