TERN Updates and Posts
TERN Updates and Posts
TERN Updates and Posts have historically been hosted on RCEMLearning. As part of TERN’s educational remit, we aim to talk about our trials and ensure people know about them. We like people to be engaged with the network and feel some ownership over it. As a result, we like to talk about the studies, what we’re up to and how people can get involved. Before this website existed this was done on RCEMLearning. We foresee this continuing alongside this website as well. For now, you can read TERN updates and posts about our studies, and about the network here.
TERN Studies
TERN’s first migration is complete
TERN Updates
TERN February 2019 – Chickens and Eggs
Research in Emergency Medicine training: one straw too many?
Research Methodology
Research Methodology
As part of TERN’s educational remit, one of the strands of our posts on RCEMLearning is Research Methodology. These are designed to discuss different types of studies and help improve the knowledge-base of our trainees. We hope you find these useful! A lot of these are hosted on RCEMLearning, but we wanted to ensure these were easy to find in one place.
If you’d like to contribute a Research Methodology post, feel free to get in touch with us!
The cost of a Starbucks Latte – a publication cost analogy
Explaining Research Methods in Emergency Medicine (ERM-EM): Introduction
PPI in research: Nothing to do with proton pump inhibitors or payment protection insurance
TERN Breaking Evidence
TERN Breaking Evidence
The TERN Breaking Evidence series forms one part of TERN’s educational remit, and is one of the strands of our posts on RCEMLearning. This is designed to discuss contemporary breaking evidence, recent papers, the latest news, or read our selection of COVID updates.
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 9
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 8
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 7
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 6
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 5
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 4
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 3: The Director’s Cut
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 3
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 2: The Director’s Cut
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 2
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 1: The Director’s Cut
RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 1
Loop recorders and the 24-hour tape: there has to be a better way! The IPED study
Breaking Evidence: The Rod Little prize 2019
Breaking Evidence: The Elizabeth Molyneux prize 2019
Silencing the seizure: Phenytoin vs. Levetiracetam in paediatric status epilepticus
To tube or not to tube? That is the question. The AIRWAYS-2 TRIAL
My patient has a pulmonary embolism (PE) – can I still send them home?
Breaking Evidence: EuSEM top scoring PEM abstracts 4-6
Breaking Evidence: EuSEM top scoring PEM abstracts 1-3
Breaking Evidence: the Rod Little Prize shortlisted abstracts 4-7
Breaking Evidence: the Rod Little Prize shortlisted abstracts 1-3
TERN Academic Careers
TERN Academic Careers
As part of TERN’s educational remit, one of the strands of our posts on RCEMLearning is Academic Careers. These are designed to provide insight into how to get involved in academic emergency medicine, detail unique experiences or personal journeys, or just talk to interesting people with some insight on the topic. We hope you find them useful and entertaining. A lot of these are hosted on RCEMLearning, but we wanted to ensure these were easy to find in one place.
“You are brave!” Starting a life-long career in emergency medicine
Getting started in research – Part 4 – (Graham Johnson, Andrew Tabner, Rachelle Sherman)
Getting started in research – Part 3 – (Rachelle Sherman, Graham Johnson, Andrew Tabner)
Getting started in research – Part 2 – (Graham Johnson, Andrew Tabner)
Getting started in research – Part 1 – (Graham Johnson, Andrew Tabner)
Are you thinking about an Academic Clinical Fellowship in Emergency Medicine?
My personal journey into qualitative research: Dan Darbyshire
Young Investigator of the Year – 2019
Suzanne Mason: Personal Journey
My personal journey into clinical academia: Rick Body
My Personal Journey: Patricia van den Berg
Personal Journeys: Anisa Jafar
Young Investigator of the Year – one year on from the Award
If you’d like to contribute a post to TERN Academic Careers, feel free to get in touch with us!
TERN Top Papers
TERN Top Papers
TERN Top Papers
Trainees do not always have time to read the most recent papers. We want to help trainees stay abreast of the evidence base. We have started by producing a monthly summary of important articles. Indeed, improving engagement with research is one of TERN’s core aims. Teams of trainees from each region (with the assistance of the TERN Education Leads) will produce a summary each month. These will be comprised of a selection of the most important articles to trainees based around that month’s theme published from the past year.
TERN Top Papers will presented a curated and summarised selection of papers on a theme chosen by a regional panel. Themes are predetermined for the first few, but there is scope to bring your own research interests to the panel. By going region by region, we hope to develop different regional leads, encourage closer-working and build a wider network of research-minded individuals.
This summary will be written by trainees for trainees. Participation will help EM trainees evidence the research specialty learning outcome (SLO10) and will help aspiring EM trainees demonstrate commitment to specialty. If you are interested in getting involved email us at tern.education@rcem.ac.uk with your name, grade, and deanery.
Our links will be updated each month, or they can be found on RCEMLearning.
TERN’s Top Papers: March 2021 – top papers
TERN’s Top Papers: April 2021 – trauma & orthopaedics
TERN’s Top Papers: May 2021 – critical care
TERN’s Top Papers: June 2021 – toxicology and psychiatry
TERN’s Top Papers: July 2021 – analgesia and sedation
TERN’s Top Papers: August 2021 – diagnostic imaging
TERN Journal Club
TERN Journal Club
What is the TERN Journal Club? As you may know, the new RCEM Curriculum has removed the critical appraisal exam, moving towards a portfolio-assessed process.
The aims of TERN are to improve research literacy and confidence. At TERN are keen to introduce evidence-based practice into our everyday working practice. The previous college focus on critical appraisal (by way of making it an exit examination) has meant that this has become the step of evidence-based practice we focus on. The most crucial of the five steps of evidence-based practice, and the one the literature suggests is the most neglected, is the actual application of the evidence to the patient in front of us.
We are planning to meet a number of needs through creating the Virtual Journal Club. Practically, trainees can demonstrate engagement with the new curriculum (and the SLO10 research outcome) and develop skills at appraising the evidence. We want to centre the application of evidence to clinical practice to the forefront of everyone’s mind. Too long we look at a guideline and follow it blindly – we want to go behind the evidence, behind the guidelines, and really get to know the evidence-base behind our practice.
Find our articles on RCEMLearning – they can be found below: