Like many other young professionals in Manhattan, I grew up out in the suburbs on Long Island hoping to one day make it to the big city. As I maneuvered through the maze of my adolescence, I vividly remember being mesmerized by the bright lights and the unrelenting energy of the concrete jungle; it was where I needed to be.
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This post was previously published on iTeachEM on 9/22/14 here.
A 44-year-old healthy man presents with dull chest pain for 3 hours. His EKG is unremarkable. What’s his risk for acute coronary syndrome? Should he get a troponin? Two troponins? Observation and a stress test?
Emergency Medicine is an inherently risky specialty.
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Program Director – “So what are you looking for in a residency program?” Interviewee – “Well let’s begin by discussing the lunch spread during Wednesday conference.” NOTE: do not say this during your actual interview.
Having completed about half my interviews at this point, I still struggle when program directors ask me this question.
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The Social Media and Critical Care (SMACC) Conference is entering it’s 4th year and will be in Dublin from June 13th – 16th, 2016. That’s right, the conference is returning to the land of Guiness and Mike Cadogan – one of the fathers of the FOAM movement. This conference offers the rare opportunity to unite a number of fields in medicine (EM,
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A 45-year-old male is brought into your resuscitation bay by EMS. He was found down, with empty prescription bottles for metoprolol, amlodipine and verapamil on his person. His heart rate is in the 30s and his blood pressure is 80s/40s. He is unresponsive but has palpable pulses. You intubate the patient, start IV fluids and give glucagon and calcium for the presumed beta-blocker and calcium-channel blocker overdose.
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In reflecting on my wonderfully addicting four-week stint in the NYU/Bellevue Emergency department, I began to wonder what advice I would have given myself before showing up to work that first day, knowing what I know now. What would I be more mindful of? What mistakes would I avoid repeating? This is how I came up with a list of 4 lessons I learned and the mistakes I made.
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The data is out. Just published June 30th, 2015, in Academic Medicine (the Journal for the AAMC)(Benson, Stickle et al. 9000) is that 4th year students going into EM are much more likely to do away rotations during their 4th year than students going into other specialties. Also, the majority of 4th year medical students believe that one of the primary uses of the last year of med school is to successfully match in the residency of their choice.
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AMAZING job by our SonoGames team members- Keegan, Andrew and Carlo. From the initial question round, placing in the top 10 of 54 teams- they dominated many of the hands-on stations during the second round, making it to the final 2 against Yale. It was a strong fight to the finish, neck and neck until the end,
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