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1/ There are growing calls for effective strategies to message to the public about risk and behavior change in the #COVID pandemic.

A few thoughts on influencing behavior. Image
2/ It’s worth reflecting on how we can influence behavior (nicely summarized in the book Switch)

Behavior is influenced by our
1.Emotions
2.Rational thought
3.Environment (designing path of least resistance)

medium.com/@jeffmarr/swit…
3/ Importantly, emotions and rational thought often compete… and emotions typically prevail. How do we capitalize on that? Image
4/ One way is heavy focus on stories or narratives. In #COVID19, this might be, stories about patients & how they were impacted by the disease, how they thought their behavior was ok but still contracted it, or specifics about community transmission events
5/ For e.g. this story by @shanxonline about a young person who he treated for #covid19 tho unfortunately died is far more compelling than telling young ppl to stay at home...
6/ Public health is starting to communicate specific events where multiple folks contracted the disease which is great. Though I'd say (while maintaining confidentiality) even more detail would help Image
7/ if a BBQ leads to multiple people contracting #covid, tell us the specifics. Paint the picture of how that happened so I can contextualize & understand my own risk. Were people wearing masks, how long were people hanging out together, was social distancing practiced etc.
8/ We (as humans) can’t apply population level statistics to our own lives. Its very difficult because each of our situations is inherently unique. I can however compare specific events that led to folks getting infected and cross reference those to help guide my decisions.
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9/ the caveat to this is we still need data...we need data to tell evidence-informed stories (ie emphasizing those that align with our broader & scientific understanding of disease transmission)

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Nov 16, 2023
I've started teaching my daughter effective learning techniques. Here's what the evidence tells us

Best: practice testing, distributed practice

Moderate: self-explanation, interleaved practice, elab interrogation

Worst: summarizing, highlighting, rereading, mnemonics

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I'll briefly mention the techniques that I utilize and teach

1. Distributed practice - spreading out study activities over time
- far more effective to study 1hr for 5 nights than 5hrs on 1 night
- this approach benefits long term retention
- basically cramming doesnt work!

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In one study, spaced practice where students had 1 or 30 day between sessions produced better results than 0 days betw sessions when evaluated on the final test

Notably, 30d betw sessions was worst at the beginning but overtime was best strategy

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Sep 6, 2023
Make no mistake the recent words of the premier touting the strength of our healthcare system are not anchored in reality.

The many amazing healthcare workers battle a dysfunctional system to continue to deliver care despite the govt

Let me help the premier understand better
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Working in our current healthcare system is like running on treadmill with no end, no food, no water and the pace continues to increase. It’s not sustainable and eventually bad things happen.
A summary
- there aren’t enough nurses
- rural EDs close regularly (that’s crazy)
- EMRs aren’t compatible across institutions and govt is complicit in this - wasting money, time and harming pts
- there aren’t enough family physicians and those remaining want out

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Jun 22, 2023
What's the best way to practice to improve skill performance?

We studied this.


TL;DR – No difference betw deliberate practice vs self guided practice

BUT more efficient/faster 6months later for deliberate practice

My thoughts & reflections

A 🧵 https://t.co/qyorTESjqGrdcu.be/deI9l
First, we pulled off one of the largest randomized trials looking at practice in the #meded literature.

We enrolled 176 emergency medicine residents across North America at 5 sites. It was a huge undertaking and not an easy study to complete, esp the retention testing.
Key to this conversation is, what is deliberate practice & mastery learning?

Deliberate practice, long studied by Ericcson requires several elements with a primary goal of improving.

Also referred to as 10,000hr rule (from Gladwell) but this is rather a misrepresentation

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Mar 26, 2023
Starting March 31st @ONThealth announced they will purposefully & systematically reduce healthcare access to those who are marginalized or under resourced.

Ont govt will end a program that provided healthcare access to the uninsured.

Here’s a 🧵 on what this means.

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At first glance, this might seem to only affect visitors or travellers (which it will) however it will deliberately negatively impact many Ontario residents who have lost, can’t renew or have an expired OHIP card.

These are people who are in fact OHIP-eligible.

2/
At our hospital, this will represent 1000s of pts per year.

The vast majority are patients who lack the resources to sort out the process required to apply for or renew an OHIP card.

A process made easier with a drivers licence, home address or collateral forms of ID.

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Mar 14, 2023
In honour of upcoming St. Patrick’s Day and the luck of the Irish, here’s a post on the importance of luck in decision making.

What is luck? Well, it can be either good or bad and it’s the result of chance. By definition it's out of our control.

Here's a thread: 🧵
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Luck is a funny thing when it comes to decisions and our interpretation changes depending on who made the decision.

This week we saw an example of bad luck for clients of SVB. The bank run was completing out of their control.

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It wasn’t an unreasonable decision to have money deposited there, at least based on all available information. Its easy to criticize others for putting all their money there without diversifying (not luck but bad decison) which unreasonable...as this isn't an investment!.

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Mar 11, 2023
Every organization will encounter a crisis.

Here’s how we used the concept of pre-mortem to improve.

This week we @Sim_UnityHealth conducted a multi-disciplinary #simulation of a complete loss of IT infrastructure.

Goal: crash test our processes & ensure ongoing care

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Frequently organizations develop policies for crises but we know that work as imagined is never the same as work as done. @StevenShorrock

Orgs guess how ppl respond.

They hope ppl will remember the procedures.

They 🤞 that the system under stress will work.

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But there’s a better way to know with greater certainty how the system and people will respond. And what strengths and deficiencies exist.

We use #simulation to support a pre-mortem.

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