Ep 205 Leading from the Inside Out: Building Teams, Trust and Purpose in Emergency Medicine

In this podcast, with Dr. Thom Mayer, Dr. Carolyn Snider and Dr. Howard Ovens, on leading from the inside out, we cover foundational principles, practical habits, and transformative insights that can make any member of an ED team a more effective, compassionate, and adaptive leader. Here, you’ll find tools, philosophy, and stories that just might transform how you think about your role in the ED to make your work more satisfying, make your teams work together better and improve patient outcomes... Please consider a donation to EM Cases to help ensure we continue to provide high quality Free Open Access medical education into the future https://stg-emergencymedicinecases-emcstaging.kinsta.cloud/donation/

By |2025-06-24T11:12:43-04:00June 24th, 2025|Categories: EM Cases, Emergency Medicine, Episodes, Medical Specialty|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments
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WTBS 30 Lessons on Emergency Medicine Leadership: The Role of The Leader

Dr. Howard Ovens reflects on the role of leader in the EM in this 2nd part of a 2-part Waiting to Be Seen blog series on EM leadership. He touches on mentoring, being committed, aligning with patients' interests, being a role model and a few quick takes on some controversial issues in EM...

By |2024-05-28T16:39:07-04:00May 28th, 2024|Categories: Emergency Medicine, Medical Specialty, Waiting to be Seen|Tags: , , |0 Comments
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WTBS 29 Four Key Learnings from a Career in Emergency Medicine Leadership

In this Waiting to Be Seen blog Dr. Howard Ovens outlines 4 key learnings from his extensive career in EM leadership: Be a good clinician, get substantial real-world experience, take a long-term view of benefits and risks and get along with your counterparts in the leadership dyad...

By |2024-03-19T10:40:56-04:00March 19th, 2024|Categories: EM Cases, Emergency Medicine, Medical Specialty, Waiting to be Seen|Tags: , , |0 Comments
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WTBS 28 I’m OK, How Are You? How can we innovate our way out of this crisis in EM and cope until we do?

In this month's Waiting to Be Seen blog Dr. Howard Ovens outlines challenges, innovations and coping strategies in the EM Crisis...

By |2022-12-20T10:49:40-05:00December 20th, 2022|Categories: EM Cases, Emergency Medicine, Medical Specialty, Waiting to be Seen|Tags: , , |0 Comments
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WTBS 24 What We Should Learn From the First Wave of COVID-19

COVID-19 is the greatest challenge our healthcare system has faced in a century. Let’s make sure we learn fast, and learn the right things, to get ready for the next challenge...

By |2020-07-13T11:13:57-04:00July 13th, 2020|Categories: COVID-19, EM Cases, Emergency Medicine, Medical Specialty, Waiting to be Seen|Tags: , , , , |1 Comment
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WTBS 20 The COVID-19 Outbreak, Part 1: A Character-Defining Period

COVID-19 is a character-defining moment for us as individuals, EDs, and communities, and even as a country and a species. How will you look back on this period?...

By |2020-04-14T21:51:15-04:00April 14th, 2020|Categories: COVID-19, EM Cases, Emergency Medicine, Medical Specialty, Waiting to be Seen|Tags: , |0 Comments
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Ep 129 ED Overcrowding and Access Block – Causes and Solutions

Howard Ovens, Grant Innes, Sam Campbell and Anton discuss the root causes, challenges and some of the solutions of one of the defining characteristics of emergency medicine in the 21st century - overcrowding. It is absolutely in the interest of every single ED provider to understand how this problem came to be, and what we can do about it. As citizens of the medical community, becoming aware of the issues that drive ED overcrowding will be a powerful asset in the drive for change. We hope to equip you with the knowledge and actionable moves to effect change on your next shift at the individual level, at the ED level, and even at the hospital and government levels…

By |2022-08-04T20:21:12-04:00August 27th, 2019|Categories: Clinical Practice, EM Cases, Emergency Medicine, Episodes, Medical Specialty|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |1 Comment
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