About the NUEM Blog
Welcome to the NUEM Blog. Thanks for reading!
The last few years have seen huge advances in the world of Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMEd). The mission of the FOAMEd community is to provide free educational content for all medical specialists, regardless of location, institution, or level of training. This goal complements the teaching model of residency, but we feel that it should be a two-sided effort. Our mission for the NUEM Blog is to create high-quality educational content and at the same time give our residents the opportunity to develop their reading, writing, and reviewing skills. Each post is created using a bottom-up model: a junior resident and senior resident work together to select a core-content topic, after which the junior writes the initial draft and the senior reviews and edits it. The final draft is reviewed by one of our faculty members before final publication.
The NUEM Blog is a project run by residents, for residents. From core EM content to brand new advances in research, we seek to bring a resident perspective to the FOAMEd world. The NUEM Blog will also showcase ongoing resident-led initiatives at Northwestern, such as the exciting work being done by our Airway and Ultrasound Committees. As our resident projects continue to develop, so will the content of the NUEM Blog. In the spirit of FOAMEd, everything on this site will always be free and open to the world, and we welcome any feedback that you, our readers, might have to help us continue to improve.
NUEM Blog Team
Pranav Kaul, MD
PGY1 EM Resident
Diana Holloran, MD PGY2 EM Resident
Rafael Lima, MD PGY3 EM Resident
Niki Patel, MD
PGY4 EM Resident
Niti Nagar, MD, MBA
PGY1 EM Resident
Evelyn Huang, MD PGY2 EM Resident
Richmond Castillo, MD PGY3 EM Resident
Maurey Hajjar, MD, MPH
PGY4 EM Resident
Courtney Premer-Barragan,
MD, PHD PGY1 EM Resident
Morgan McCarthy, MD PGY2 EM Resident
Elizabeth Stulpin, MD PGY3 EM Resident
Vytas Karalius, MD, MPH, MA
PGY4 EM Resident
Adam Payne, MD PGY2 EM Resident
Michael Macias, MD
Founder, 2017 Graduate
Advisor
John Bailitz, MD
Vice Chair for Academics
Advisor
Matthew Klein, MD, MPH
Assistant Program Director, Clerkship Director
Advisor
Nahzinine Shakeri, MD
Assistant Program Director
Advisor
Seth Treuger, MD MPH
Associate Professor
Faculty Advisor & Associate Faculty Editor
Chelsea Harrison
Residency Coordinator
Advisor & Blog Coordinator