What's Goin' On Up There?

Picture this. You’re in a room (it’s your brain). 

Someone asked you to save their life, and you know the information you need to do it is somewhere in this room.

All the info on this room is analog on pieces of paper. 

You look around and see big 20 gallon plastic bins stuffed to the brim with paper. 

The bins are labeled “GI”, “CARDIAC”, “ANATOMY”, “PHARMACOLOGY”, “NEUROLOLGY”, “BIOCHEMISTRY”, “HIGH YIELD STEP 1 and 2”

You open a bin and see piles of paper stacked reams high and start rifling through trying to save this person’s life. 

All the while, random papers are strewn about.

How much time does it take you to find the information that you need?

You snap out of the visualization and see your ED attending seemingly look at a patient,

ask some questions while examining the patient and know exactly what to do. 

What the hell is goin' on up there? How’d they do that?

You ask your attending and they say…

“Just see a lot of patients” …

the more patients you see, the most important files will start to be easier to find because they’re closer to the top of the bins

“Read more” - Put more papers in your brain!

But this doesn’t actually help you understand what’s going on in your attending’s brain.

Let’s go into your attending’s mind. 

There’s a big comfy chair in the middle. 

The files are so well organized you can reach for a piece of info without even looking through the cabinet. 

Everything is easy to find.

This is the difference between an expert and a novice. What’s goin on up there?

This site is built to help you learn how to organize your brain, practice meta-cognition and build a solid foundation for lifelong learning.