ECG (or EKG for the Germans) Learning Tools

Clinical Cases and Images has a nice post up with a set of links to and explanations of various ECG/EKG learning tools. They are introduced as follows:

To provide some background, I am a teaching attending at Cleveland Clinic and have multiple rotations during the year with our residents and medical students. We record all topics discussed during a particular rotation on this blog and I know from the feedback which one the residents and students like the best. This month it was the session about using 2 mnemonics as a systematic approach to interpreting EKGs and web-based tools for EKG training.

Jones Hall Courtyard

In my Secular Rituals post, I mentioned the Jones Hall courtyard at Tulane. I was unable to find any photographs of it in a quick search before, but now that I’ve had a chance to go through my pictures at home, I’ve found my old drawing:
Drawing of Jones Hall Courtyard at Tulane

The open part of the courtyard (only the edge is shown) is to the left, while Jones Hall itself is behind the point-of-view in the drawing. I believe there’s another name for this courtyard, but I can’t remember what it is. It was (and is) one of my favorite parts of the Tulane campus.

Secular Rituals

There are a couple of things that I’ve noticed I enjoy doing roughly once a year. I’m not sure yet why I engage in these “secular rituals”. So far they include only:

The (plausible) reasons for reviewing these works that I have come up with so far are:

  1. To mark the passage of time internally.
  2. Because the experience is enjoyable, and after a year it’s not too repetitive.
  3. To remind myself of the feelings and thoughts that these media have evoked in me.

When at Tulane, especially when I was a freshman searching for meaning, I would do some other things periodically, mostly wandering around campus. In particular:

  • Visiting the Nydia, typically at night, when it was still in its glass enclosure.
  • Talking with Louis Rothbard, before they tore down the University Center and tore up the benches where he sat.
  • Sitting in the Jones Hall courtyard under the vines. Here’s a drawing I did of one part of it years ago:
    Jones Hall Courtyard Drawing

Like the more recent activities mentioned first, periodically I would feel compelled to do these things. Having done them, the need was sated for a few weeks or months, and would then come back again.

Have you felt like this? Do you have any secular rituals?