How to Crush Your SLOE (Tips 1-5)
EM Clerkship
Zack Olson, MD ; Mike Estephan, MD ; Maddie Watts, MD
4.9 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Tip #1
Introduce yourself.
* Attending? “Hello, my name is Zack, I’m one of the medical students” * Resident? “Hello, my name is Zack, I’m one of the medical students”* Nurse? “Hello, my name is Zack, I’m one of the medical students”* Janitor? “Hello, my name is Zack, I’m one of the medical students”
Tip #2
Be humble but confident.
* Humility- Students know very little about the practice of medicine, the smartest med students actually realize that.* Confidence- You have to be able to act confident, be decisive in your presentations, and make decisions. The best way to achieve this is to remember that you have (hopefully) been working hard and studying consistently.
Tip #3
Stay focused.
* Your humor, hobbies, activities, dress, and “cool” personality, don’t impress anybody in the emergency department. * The best students tend to be friendly, focused, hardworking, and generally quiet (yay introverts!)* Emergency medicine tends to be a very pragmatic, no b.s, specialty. Let your performance speak for itself.
Tip #4
Do the majority of your learning BEFORE your rotation starts.
Your audition rotation should not be when you are downloading podcasts, studying pretest, or going through practice questions. Your learning should be completed well in advance so you can focus your energy on clinical performance).
Tip #5
HELP around the department.
* Help patient change into gown* Get urine samples* Keep patients updated* Go back and ask missing information
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, med students. My name is Zach Olson, and thank you for downloading this week's |
| 0:07.3 | episode of the EM Clerkship Podcast. I hope you are all doing very well. And as always, shoot me |
| 0:16.1 | an email if there are any issues I can help you with, or if you just need somebody to talk to, |
| 0:20.5 | I am here for you. I care help you with or if you just need somebody to talk to, I am here |
| 0:21.0 | for you. I care about you. Very important content these next few weeks. I have been brainstorming |
| 0:28.7 | this for several months, actually. This was going to be the core selling point of a paid |
| 0:35.8 | course I was going to develop, actually, on teachable or something, |
| 0:39.1 | until I decided that I was just going to do this for free and just, we've had this conversation |
| 0:43.4 | before in the real talk episode, how to crush your slow. That was going to be the topic. |
| 0:49.0 | That was going to be the course. I was going to call it slow crushers or something stupid. |
| 0:53.0 | Anyways, and I didn't want it to be generic, cliche advice. I really wanted to call it slow crushers or something stupid. Anyways, and I didn't want it to be generic |
| 0:55.8 | cliche advice. I really wanted to craft an actual system for you, the slow crushers method |
| 1:03.6 | or something. Going beyond be professional, own your patience, yada, yada, yada, cliche advice, |
| 1:10.0 | right? Like, I was trying to come up with an actual system that I thought would really work well. |
| 1:16.4 | And so I literally sat down and I brainstormed on my office whiteboard. |
| 1:22.0 | Everything I could think of that if you did it, you would be the best medical student I ever had. That was like the driving |
| 1:29.9 | question. How to teach and create the perfect med student? How would I train you myself if I knew |
| 1:36.9 | that you were all going to come rotate at my hospital with me in a few months? The perfect |
| 1:41.8 | med student, which for you means a great slow, right? And even more |
| 1:46.4 | than that, a really good med student, they get more than just like a good flow. They get really |
| 1:50.7 | good comments on their slow. And that's especially important when you're interviewing. |
| 1:54.2 | So to understand my strategy and my mindset, you have to understand the emergency department |
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