Today's talk now posted for my FAVOURITE topic:
How to study & learn clinical/medical #microbiology.
🧠What to know
🧠How we learn
🧠Free resources
🧠Motivation

🧵below & slides available free: tinyURL.com/LearningMicro

#IDTwitter #MicroMedEd #ASMCPEP #clinmicro #ASMClinMicro Title slide: Studying & learning microbiology Contact inform
This talk expands on content from my ASM post from June.
asm.org/Articles/2021/…
... which outlined traits of experts & how we can use them to learn (eg. with visual tools):

👉These slides (summarized next) put this in the context of preparing for clin/med micro/ID exams.
2/14 Table: Traits of experts (vs. novices) and how visuals aid t
🧠WHAT DO YOU NEED TO KNOW?

Your exam will have a syllabus & information about the exam format itself. These are key resources. But remember that you're preparing for both the exam and your career beyond that.

3/ Venn diagram: What you need to know for your JOB  vs. for yo
Preparing for your exams (and in your training program) will require many resources, which can be organized into:
🔵 CLINICAL/syndromic
🟣 LABORATORY/benches
🔴 SYLLABUS/theory + format

This can inform how you prepare.

4/ Different content has different resources.  Syndromic contenExam format may hint at how to prepare. Syndromic & bench (c
🧠HOW DO YOU LEARN?

The way you learned best before probably still works best for you now.

Awareness of the levels of learning may help! Just compiling notes isn't learning, it's important to understand so you can apply what you know & have it ready when you need it.

5/ Bloom's Taxonomy pyramid: Learning is from lower levels (e.g
Expertise can be BUILT strategically.

Here are examples of how each of 4 expert traits can be used to build expertise ...specifically in CLINICAL/MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY🦠& ID.

This can also help you identify gaps, ask good questions, & take initiative in your learning.

6/ Four traits of experts can be strategies for novices to lear4 traits of experts:  1. Identify meaningful information.  2
⭐EXPERT STRATEGY #1⭐
Identify meaningful information (so you can simplify complex information into patterns & categories).

Here, @cullen_lilley shows how much information you can get from just the tip of the tail in microfilaria!
7/
Strategy 1. Identify meaningful information.  Example shown
⭐EXPERT STRATEGY #2⭐
Organize your knowledge (so you can connect related concepts).

Here, I've organized the rickettsiae & relatives into groups, and connected their diseases & vectors. Infinitely more useful!

8/
Strategy 2. Organize knowledge and tie in related concepts.
⭐EXPERT STRATEGY #3⭐
Cue information when it's relevant (so you can build a better differential diagnosis, for example).

Here, Dr. @VarunPhadke2 demonstrates what information is most valuable when a patient's blood culture is positive.

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Strategy 3. Identify when certain information is useful.  Sh
⭐EXPERT STRATEGY #4⭐
Retrieve knowledge more efficiently by organizing & connecting these ideas (e.g. to stay current).

Here, I show how I (try to) keep up with taxonomic changes, by remembering where they came from & where they went.

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Strategy 4. Retrieve knowledge automatically.  Shown: Taxono
🤔So how do we apply this to syndromes?

Here, you can see how a learner can build their knowledge of syndromes for each body system by starting to ask novice questions (grey) and progressing to expert questions (red) with a deeper & broader understanding building.

🔺🧗‍♀️
11/ Applying these expert traits to syndromes. Several syndromesAn expert view adds depth by further dividing these syndromeAn expert view adds less common syndromes & pathogens.
Building syndromic expertise is supported by tools in clinical diagnostic reasoning, which dovetail well with these 4 expert strategies.

More detail in the presentation, including resources like @CPSolvers, @febrilepodcast, and their respective communities on+off Twitter!

12/ Clinical Diagnostic Reasoning consists of Problem RepresentaProblem Representation asks Who/When/What is happening to thSchemas help organize your clinical approach. Illness scripts help organize information & use all of the e
And, if you're preparing for exams, don't forget about:
🧠HOW YOU'RE MOTIVATED
&
🧠AVAILABLE RESOURCES

I have listed MANY free resources (&featured some special ones) in the full talk:
tinyURL.com/LearningMicro

13/ What motivates you? What would make you FEEL productive? What de-motivates you? What's feeding your imposter syndromeWhat are your resources? Who can help you? (Can you help eac
Lastly, check out the full talk (tinyURL.com/LearningMicro)
& feel free to reach out to me. I am very new to the field, but fresh out of studying for my Board Exams in Clinical Microbiology (✅passed), and happy to talk about learning. Enjoy the slides!

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👨‍👨‍👧‍👧Taxonomy
⚡️Virulence factors
🤒Diseases
🧫Lab ID
💊Resistance
🧪Susceptibility testing

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TAXONOMY OF PSEUDOMONAS:

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📘Adapted from Manual Clin Micro

🖥️More on Enterobacterales:



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