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Sep242024

Gen Z in the ED: Medical Student Perspectives on Emergency Medicine

Allison Tu Leave a Comment Med Student Blog

Author: Allison Tu

About me: I’m a second-year medical student at NYU planning to pursue a career in emergency medicine. I graduated from Harvard in 2023 with a degree in psychology and global health, and during medical school, I’ve co-directed NYU’s asylum clinic and volunteered for the suicide prevention lifeline. I am also interested in teaching, and I hope to pursue a medical education fellowship in the future. Outside of medical school, I love social dance, baking, and long-distance running.  

To get a sense of how medical students feel about emergency medicine, we interviewed three students who are interested in EM: Nick, a graduating M4 pre-matched into EM residency, Charlotte, an M2 currently planning to pursue EM, and Annie, an M1 considering EM. 

What sparked your interest in emergency medicine? 

Nick: My interest in EM began when I was working in EMS as an undergrad,
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Jan292020

Navigating Online Resources for Learning ECG Interpretation

Joe Bennett, MD 2 Comments Med Student Blog Tags: ,

Learning to interpret ECGs is not easy – but there’s a world of help out there.

Authors: Bennett J, Rhee D, Wagh A, Pusic M, Tse AB.

Being able to efficiently and accurately read an ECG is an important yet very difficult skill to learn. Online resources can help you improve your abilities at any learner level; however, navigating the multitude of resources can be overwhelming.  Our goal is to describe high yield online resources, point you towards robust educational social media, and introduce you to a new NYU-developed database of ECGs with over 80,000 ECGs for learners to practice, learn, and develop their ECG interpretation skills.  Click here to view a table summary of the free ECG resources on the web today!

Online resources come in several formats.

There are four main types of resources:
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Sep272019

NYU Bellevue Emergency Medicine Department Hiring New Faculty

Audrey Tse, MD Leave a Comment Med Student Blog

Hi CoreEM Community-

This isn’t a usual blogpost but we just wanted to let you know that NYU Bellevue EM Department is looking to hire new faculty for 2020!!!  It’s an amazing place here with a chance to work with some fantastic residents and inspiring colleagues and treat an impressive breadth of patients, in one of the most diverse and fun cities in the world.  Please see attached for more details.

Thanks and Happy Friday, Bree

NYU Faculty Recruitment Flyer 2019

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Jul272018

Paramedic Experience

Tyler Prince, MS I U of Vermont Med School 3 Comments Med Student Blog

For most of this site’s readers, first year of med school is well in the past. You’ve moved on from the monotony of books and PowerPoints to the revelation of actual cases. You see the subtle connections between text and reality, develop pattern recognition, and learn how medicine actually works. If you entered medical school expecting to heal the world, your perspective these days is probably a bit more cynical. But no matter how distant those pre-clinical years may seem, you have an absolutely massive bank of anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology knowledge. You worked hard to get where you are, and you’re a better healthcare provider for it.

Then there are those of us who come to med school not from college, but from other medical fields: often nursing and EMS. In our prior careers, we skipped the basic science of the pre-clinical years and…just kinda started doin’ stuff.
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Apr062018

Who Are You?

Sanjay Mohan, MD One Comment Med Student Blog

“Code Blue in the waiting room!”

As my co-resident, attending, and I sprinted down the hall, I vividly remember thinking to myself that I probably shouldn’t be here right now. I was working upstairs in the surgical ICU. On a particularly slow overnight, I decided to head down to the ED to visit some friends.

Seconds later, my attending was riding the stretcher (which is never a good prognostic sign in my humble opinion) placing the patient in the recovery position as my co-resident and I were wheeling as fast as we could into one of the resuscitation bays. In the waiting room, we had met an elderly lady sitting in a pool of blood, without any clear mental status who subsequently began to vomit.

“Max, prep for intubation” my attending roared as nursing began to get vitals and place the patient on the monitor.
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Sep122017

MDCalc Fellowship Program

Anand Swaminathan, MD Leave a Comment Med Student Blog Tags:

The MDCalc Fellows program is a 2-year longitudinal engagement for residents and medical students passionate about EBM and knowledge translation. 
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Jul012016

Thoughts to EM Graduates 2016 – Dr. Goldfrank

Lewis Goldfrank, MD 4 Comments Med Student Blog Tags:

On Monday, June 20th, Dr. Goldfrank delivered his graduation remarks to the 22nd graduating class from the NYU/Bellevue EM Residency program. As graduation always is, it was an emotional night. Dr. Goldfrank’s words resonated deeply with all of the residents and their families. Below are his thoughts:

I learned that
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Jun242016

The Case for Outpatient Alcohol Detoxification

Brian Lin, MD Leave a Comment Med Student Blog Tags: ,

Editor: Christie Lech

Background: 

The prevalence of adult alcohol abuse and dependence in the United States ranges from 7% to 16% (Muncie 2013). There are an estimated 500,000 cases of alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) requiring pharmacologic intervention every year (Hoffman 2015).  In addition, alcoholism has a large economic burden with annual health related costs estimated to be over $220 billion (Bouchery 2006).

Emergency providers (EPs) are frequently faced with the difficult decision of whether or not to discharge home or provide these patients with inpatient detoxification, even though studies have demonstrated short length of stays and high against medical advice (AMA) discharge rates among this patient group (Stephens 2014). Outpatient alcohol detoxification programs are common however their structures and coordination with emergency departments (EDs) are highly variable. In fact, very few EDs can provide direct referral to an outpatient program. In today’s emergency medicine practice is outpatient detoxification a viable option in the treatment of alcohol withdrawal?
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