Charlotte Alexander

Moments of crisis, like #COVID19, are moments of cultural compression...Moments when values and beliefs of a group are more easily identified and then shaped. Moments that can tell organizations an awful lot about who we are, what matters most, and who we might become. #EDAC2020

How do you do a year's worth of sim in 1 month during crisis? As the Aussie's say, "too easy" - build institutional capacity + culture before it's needed... Absolutely inspiring work out of @GC_Health @SocraticEM @Belinda_J_Lowe advancesinsimulation.biomedc…

Sometimes I imagine @maddow commentating emergency medicine residency. It goes something like this....thread (feel free add)

Inertia before investigation - a primer on pre-test probability and slowing down to speed up with @GKeijzers_EM and Richie Pellatt. #COVID19 is delaying our in-person work as colleagues but it can't stop virtual collaboration! @EMAJournal dx.doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723…

Coordinating your team has become more important than ever. See our pre-pandemic paper on effective team-briefings to build relational coordination and empower your team to be awesome. Extremely relevant in the COVID-19 realities we face. ceemjournal.org/journal/view…

For those interested in simulation research the new “Healthcare Simulation Research – A Practical Guide” is a must go-to resource. @DebraNestel Recently reviewed on @sim_podcast simulationpodcast.com/84-boo… @ES_FHS_QueensU @b_heather91 – at Kingston, Ontario

What happens when a Canadian anthropologist, Australian EM physician, South African paramedic and Swiss trauma surgeon collaborate? Doing our work better, together: a relationship-based approach to defining the quality improvement agenda in trauma care. bmjopenquality.bmj.com/conte…

Thrilled to share our collaborative ethnography of trauma care @GC_Health. We worked to understand how relationships affect the work that trauma care providers do. Pleasure to work w @SocraticEM @_CharAlexander @FatamboGary et al. bmjopenquality.bmj.com/conte… Thread.