ACEP Now

AUGUST 1, 2023

Each year, ACEP’s Council elects new leaders for the College at its meeting. This month, let’s meet the candidates for President-Elect, Council Speaker, and Council Vice Speaker. Physician assistants and/or nurse practitioners receive real-time telehealth consults from residency faculty, board certified emergency physicians in Jackson.

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ALiEM

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As the specialty evolves in Pakistan and other countries, there is a need to improve and assimilate novel learning methods to elevate education standards. It is an innovation that is based on a community of practice merged with the need-based assessment of a young EM residency program in a developing country.

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SheMD

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

If that is true, then I am a self-proclaimed expert when it comes to reviewing applications and conducting interviews for those applying to graduate medical education programs (residency and fellowship). So let’s get started… Nearly all programs will have an interview dinner the night before the interview with the residents.

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EMDocs

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

6 Other studies during doctor’s strikes, however, showed that morbidity and mortality did not increase and in some cases decreased, potentially due to staff reassignment, elective surgery maintenance or curtailment, and continuation of emergency care. Thousands of medical residents are unionizing. More medical residents unionize.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 8, 2024

During the hemming and hawing that followed, I reflected on the reasons I have been committed to medical education in general and to this course in particular. As a resident I fell in love with evidence-based medicine and critical appraisal. I also had some amazing teachers during my residency. First, a little about the course.

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SheMD

APRIL 28, 2023

As medical students, residents, fellows and newly minted attending physicians, we pride ourselves in practicing evidence-based, data driven medicine. For female physicians-in-training this is often later given the years dedicated to medical education and training hence the opportunity to consider elective fertility preservation thru IVF.

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SheMD

APRIL 24, 2023

Though undergraduate education, medical school, residency, and fellowship, we are constantly striving to get the highest score, to maintain a high GPA, to publish papers, to get excellent letters of recommendation. As women in medicine, we are always focused on the next goal we need to achieve to advance our career. J Womens Health.

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EMDocs

JULY 17, 2023

Initial management can include endoscopic detorsion followed by delayed elective sigmoid colectomy. doi:10.1007/s002619900307 The post Large bowel obstruction: ED presentation, evaluation, and management appeared first on emDOCs.net - Emergency Medicine Education. Otherwise, it is usually managed surgically within a few days.

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EMDocs

JULY 3, 2023

Authors: Mikalah Ward, MD (EM Resident Physician, University of Kentucky); Susan Owens, MD (EM Attending Physician, University of Kentucky) // Reviewed by: Jessica Pelletier, DO (EM Education Fellow, Washington University in St. CT reveals subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) with midline shift. 2022;24(4):294-300.

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PulmCCM

JULY 3, 2023

Video laryngoscopy was superior to direct laryngoscopy in first-pass success among ED residents and CCM fellows intubating critically ill patients (DEVICE trial). More than 90% of the intubations were performed by emergency medicine residents (~70%) or critical care fellows (~23%). Esophageal intubations occurred in both groups (0.9%

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 19, 2023

While I wasn’t really expected to know anything about neurosurgery on the first day of my elective – that is why I was taking the elective – I was judged by what I already knew. Becoming a resident, not knowing once again became unacceptable. Residency did provide safe spaces for learning.

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Don't Forget the Bubbles

JULY 17, 2023

Association between breastfeeding duration and educational achievement in England: results from the Millennium Cohort Study. Elective induction of labour at full-term gestations and childhood school outcomes. Simple Interventions for Pediatric Residents’ Moral Distress: A Randomized, Controlled Experiment. Selin S, et al.

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SheMD

APRIL 27, 2023

Women, who pursue specialty careers like medicine, are at higher risk given the delay in childbearing due to higher education, intense training in med school, residency and fellowship and oftentimes delay in finding the right partner. Who do I recommend elective fertility preservation to and is it right for you?

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SheMD

DECEMBER 7, 2023

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that choice, and I do know physicians who have elected to leave their practice to do so. I met my husband during medical school, and we married as residents. The challenges of being a parent of a young child are present throughout any stage of medical education and training.

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ACEP Now

JUNE 5, 2023

The Emergency Medicine Residency Association (EMRA) and ACEP’s Young Physicians Section hosted their annual pre-conference Health Policy Primer, an event geared toward EM physicians who are new to policy and advocacy. Education and engagement are the key first steps to making everything work better in emergency medicine,” Dr. Kass noted.

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ACEP Now

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Carefully considering their education, life experiences, and potential will help determine when they are ready to lead. Members of the Board of Directors serve 3-year terms that begin after the Board meeting following their election. Recipients of this award are ineligible to receive awards in other categories of the Awards Program.

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ACEP Now

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Data clearly suggest that abstinence-only sexual education in our public school systems has resulted in astonishing rates of teen pregnancy, abortions, and sexually transmitted disease infections. A resident once said to me that in emergency medicine, “we carry our graveyards with us.” References Stanger-Hall KF, Hall DW. 2011;6(10).

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