Michelle Lin, MD
Medical educator by day.
Emergency physician by night.
I like to fix things that are broken.
What I Do
ALiEM Founder & Editor-in-Chief
Academic Life in Emergency Medicine (ALiEM) is a digital education organization. Our team strives to reshape health professions education and academia in their evolution away from the traditional classroom. We publish quality educational resources used for lifelong learning and clinical care on our blog. We also successfully pioneered virtual communities of practices for chief residents, fellows, and educator-scholars with our Incubator model. Our partners have included professional societies such as ABEM, SAEM, CORD, EMRA, ACEP.
Book Author, Tricks of the Trade in Emergency Medicine
This color, hard-bound, coffee table book summarizes our favorite 50 tricks and tips that solve common problems and dilemmas in the emergency department.
Lin M, Haas MRC, Hayes BD, Joshi N. Tricks of the Trade in Emergency Medicine. Redwood City, CA: ALiEM Publishing, 2020. ISBN 978-0-9992825-5-7
Post It Pearls Educator
Teaching at the bedside in the emergency department can scale beyond the individual learner. Sharing the learning points via post it note doodles benefits others on shift as well as in the Instagram medical community via the hashtag #PostItPearls, which I created in 2017. Check out my Post It Pearls at @MichelleLinMD.