Dennis Ren
Dennis Ren is a pediatric emergency medicine attending at Children’s National Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC. He completed both his pediatrics and pediatric emergency medicine training at Children’s National Hospital. He received his medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, LA and his undergraduate degree from The University of California in Berkeley.
He is a Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed) enthusiast and hosts a monthly critical appraisal podcast, SGEM Peds, in collaboration with The Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine and Ready. Prep. Go!, the podcast from the Pediatric Pandemic Network. He is passionate about exploring creative methods of science communication, knowledge dissemination, and knowledge translation.
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The SGEM Presents: Brick by Brick, Building Better Critical Appraisal Skills
Anyone can stack up abstracts, papers, and headlines. The hard part is building sound clinical judgment. In this interactive session, Dennis Ren and Ken Milne will break critical appraisal down into its core building blocks: how to read a paper efficiently, spot common cognitive and statistical pitfalls, and decide whether new evidence should actually change care for the child in front of you. Expect nerdy banter, audience participation, real-world examples, and a live podcast-style appraisal as you build your evidence-based medicine toolkit brick by brick.