This was my favorite lecture assigned to me at SMACC 2013. It discusses the search for excellence in our profession. I hope you enjoy!

Knowledge

Full list of journals I read

The Pareto Reduction to 12 for EM Critical Care

* Ann Emerg Med - Acad Emerg Med

* Am J Emerg Med

* Emerg Med J

* Br J Anaesth

* Anesthesiology

* Anesth & Analg

* Resuscitation

* J Trauma

* Crit Care Med

* Crit Care

* Intens Care Med

Insight comes from Knowledge (Psychol Sci. 2006 Oct;17(10):882-90). The prepared mind: neural activity prior to problem presentation predicts subsequent solution by sudden insight.)

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* Mastery by Robert Greene

* Pragmatic Thinking by Andy Hunt

* Reading non-clinically is just as important to become an excellent physician and person, so go listen to Michelle Johnston's lessons from the classics lecture

* The 10,000 hour rule is essentially bullshit

* Mastery on the Doist Blog

Procedures

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* Siamak Moayedi has one of the best lectures on procedural knowledge. The lecture is now available in video form as well

Critical Thinking

Rhetological Fallacies

I have a copy of this poster in both of my offices

PSYBlogs List of Cognitive Biases

If you don't know them, you are probably committing them

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Mastermind by Maria Konnokova

Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahneman

Potholes

Dunning-Kruger Effect

* Kruger J, Dunning D. Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1999;77(6):1121.

* Dunning D, Johnson K, Ehrlinger J. Why people fail to recognize their own incompetence. Current Directions in 2003 Jan.;Available from: http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/12/3/83.short

* Caputo D, Dunning D. What you don't know: The role played by errors of omission in imperfect self-assessments [Internet]. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 2005 Jan.;Available from:

* Carter T, Dunning D.