And we're funded! 🥳

Hey fellow #MedEd creators / idols. Please check out our campaign & share if so motivated! @febrilepodcast @IDiots_pod @COREIMpodcast @ABsteward @1min_IDconsult @IDstewardship

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TICKET GIVEAWAY!!!!

Neurd Games will have a table at @omsi After Dark: Game On! on November 11 and we have TWO TICKETS from OMSI to give away! 🎉🎉🎉

Game On! will explore tabletop games, card games and video games. 1/♟️

I don’t know who needs to hear it (everyone), but pip-tazo is about the worst offender for sodium content in IV antibiotics.

Diphyllobothrium latum, the fish tapeworm, is a member of the order Pseudophyllidea and can grow to a length of 15 meters. It has achieved a recorded length of 25 meters, making it the longest parasite to infect humans.

Page 354 📕 Parasitic Diseases, Eighth Edition

Download a t.co/xu6cN99Rjr

📸 NIH

Finally! The truth about the man with a hand of smoke!

Let's not forget that the EEG we still use today was discovered when Hans Berger tried to prove the phenomenon of telepathy.

He didn't, but he published a landmark paper in 1929 documenting alpha waves (Berger waves). 3/👻

#IDtwitter this one is old but good

What are Neglected Tropical Diseases or NTDs and why are they neglected? 🌍

NTDs are a group of 21 conditions that affect more than one billion people globally. They are caused by a variety of pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi, and toxins. They're because they have historically been almost absent from the global health agenda.

They disproportionally affect those who lack safe water, sanitation, adequate housing, education, and information, as well as excessively affecting women, girls, and underserved and mobile communities. While the largest number of people requiring NTD interventions live in Asia, the largest share of the burden of disease in terms of mortality and morbidity is found in Africa.

The 21 NTDs are:

• Buruli ulcer
• Chagas disease
• dengue and chikungunya
• dracunculiasis
• echinococcosis
• foodborne trematodiases
• human African trypanosomiasis
• leishmaniasis
• leprosy
• lymphatic filariasis
• mycetoma, chromoblastomycosis, and other deep mycoses
• noma
• onchocerciasis
• rabies
• scabies and other ectoparasitoses
• schistosomiasis
• soil-transmitted helminthiases
• snakebite envenoming
• taeniasis/cysticercosis
• trachoma
• yaws

My crowning academic achievement as @PaulSaxMD featured one of my tweets on the big stage! This counts as scholarly activity, right?

Woohoo! Mind if I share it on the BlueSky?

I want you to know ‘tis no crime
To not know that much about Lyme
It's fastidious, hard to grow
There will be many things you don’t know

#idsky

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Great read about math in games without a lot of math.

Wish USMLE board review and Street Fighter had a love child? If so, have I got a game for you!

Pretty nifty way to gamify board review questions. Needs an Infectious Disease option, tho!

🔥It's published 🔥
The first ever RCT combination therapy for Stenotrophomonas maltophelia infections
Efficacy of combination therapy with minocycline for treating Stenotrophomonas maltophilia infections
🔺Adjunctive minocycline did not significantly reduce 28-day-mortality (n = 57[38.6%], P = 0.590) #IDXposts @drgabx
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It's weird historical advertisement Thursday, but today I'm advertising the phenomenal collections in the @OslerLibrary and Maude Abbott Medical Museum at McGill University.

Read more about Abbott (and Osler!) in this thread 1/

Taenia saginata occurs wherever cattle husbandry is prevalent and where human feces is not disposed of properly. It is commonly called the “beef tapeworm” because the juvenile stage of the parasite is found only in cattle, the intermediate host.

Page 331 📕 Parasitic Diseases, d a copy for free! parasiteswithoutborders.com/books

📸 Adult T. saginata. Note the position of the scolex (arrow). Courtesy of U. Martin.

Watch @EmpiricGame's video about reducing extras in educational games: mededgamer.org/resources

Or learn more about making games for neurology education in GANGLIA, a year-long community of practice (neurdgames.com/ganglia)

with @zach_london, me & our game-making colleagues!

@PaulSaxMD So no more having to sacrifice 40 goats to the IRB gods to get this drug????

Big news on the NTM front:

~Cranial Nerve Playing Cards~

We've just launched a brand new way to experience the joy of neuroanatomy. In the form of a standard deck of cards you can use to play all your favorite games... or just appreciate the hand-drawn art (thanks Reda!)

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Do you want DETAILS? Well you can't HAVE THEM because we're WORKING IT OUT but there's online and in-person stuff and abstracts and game design workshops, is that enough? Mark your gd calendar! Mededgamer.org

@EmpiricGame @PharmageddonG @drsarahedwards @MikaelaStiver