SAEM Clinical Images Series: A Grain of Sand… or Something More Sinister?
A 54-year-old male with a history of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus presented with one day of atraumatic left eye pain. He reports pain with blinking and a sandy foreign body sensation. Patient denies new discharge from the eye, though endorses increased tearing. He reports no recent trauma to the face or chemical exposures. He has had no [+]
EM Match Advice 49: 5 Keys to Crush Your EM Residency Interview
It’s fall, which means goofy costumes, crisp apples, pumpkin spice latte, and the official start of the Residency Recruitment Season! Programs are furiously reviewing your applications right now, and this is a [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Tuning In
The patient is an 85-year-old male with a history of anxiety/depression, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hearing loss who presents to the [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: There’s a Bird Stuck in Your Throat
The patient is a 61-year-old female with a past medical history of hypertension who presents to the [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Modern Pirate
The patient is a 72-year-old male with multiple medical problems who presents to the Emergency Department complaining of dyspnea on exertion. The patient also complains of bruising that has developed on his right leg. He states that he previously had a similar episode for which she was admitted to the hospital and had warfarin discontinued due to thrombocytopenia. He also reports that he [+]
ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl – Lead it Be?
Which retained ballistic fragment(s) would be expected to result in elevated blood lead levels in a patient? Fragments in or near a joint space Fragments with an associated [+]
ALiEM AIR Series | Vascular Module (2025)
Welcome to the AIR Vascular Module! After carefully reviewing all relevant posts in the past 12 months from the top 50 sites of the Digital Impact Factor [1], the ALiEM AIR [+]
When Research Meets Social Media Expertise: Lessons from the PECARN-ALiEM Partnership
From Pipe Dream to Proven Strategy: How a 4-year partnership between PECARN and ALiEM created a replicable framework for evidence-based research dissemination Sometimes the best collaborations begin with simple questions. Following Dr. [+]
EM Match Advice 42: Mid Interview Season Check-In
Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (podcast host and Stanford University PD) and Dr. Michelle Lin (ALiEM Founder/UCSF) are joined by Dr. Aaron Kraut (University of Wisconsin PD) in this insightful, rapid-fire, practical episode through the lens of experienced residency program directors. What does the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) preliminary data show just far for the 2024 residency application season? Has the program signaling option been working? Have there been any surprises or changes during interview [+]
IDEA | Airway Series: Reviewing Intubation Footage in Conference to Improve Airway Mastery
Airway management is one of the most critical skills learned by emergency medicine (EM) residents and can be difficult to teach in traditional lectures. Increasingly, video laryngoscopy has been utilized by emergency [+]
The Leader’s Library: New Rules of Work | Sign up to join the book club
“...picture a map with point A, which is where you are now, and point Z, which is where you retire after a long career. Twenty years ago, there might have been a reasonably [+]
Dear emergency physicians: We see you
https://youtu.be/jtGM-BUp_no The COVID-19 pandemic has placed incredible stress and strain on the personal work lives of emergency physicians. We have endured these almost 2 years of misinformation, PPE shortages, fear, frustration, grief, and [+]
How I Work Smarter: Miguel Reyes, MD
One word that best describes how you work? Comfortable Current mobile device iPhone 12 Pro Computer Macbook Air What is something you are working on now? Wound Care article, REBEL EM CME content, Journal Reviews How did you come up with this Idea/Project? It was an opportunity that presented itself during the fellowship. It’s a collaborative effort with other faculty members to pull together this large review article, its a lot of work and effort [+]
Welcoming PECARN to Twitter
Our organization has always been a champion and fan of the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) research collaborative. We jointly worked on designing their official Head Injury Decision Tool found printed [+]
How I Stay Healthy in EM: Sarah Mott
Times are hard, work is stressful. With 24/7 news and constant global pandemic updates, our once prized “work stays at work and home stays at home” mentality can be hard to maintain. With [+]
I’m an Emergency Medicine Physician With COVID-19, Now What?
A 35-year-old female emergency medicine physician presents for evaluation for severe myalgias, headache, fatigue, mild nasal congestion, profound anosmia, cough, and subjective fevers and chills. She has no measured temperature above 100.4°F, but [+]
