SAEM Clinical Images Series: Quirky Quincke’s
The patient is a 38-year-old male with no past medical history who presents to the Emergency Department with chief complaint of “swollen uvula” that started 4 hours ago. The patient reports that he woke up this morning with pain in his throat and associated shortness of breath secondary to swelling. States he looked in his mouth in the mirror and saw that his uvula was swollen, [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: I’m Plugged Up
A 56-year-old male with a history of crack cocaine and opiate drug use presented to the Emergency Department (ED) with concerns about a persistent dry cough for seven [+]
ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl: Turning Blue
What commercially available product can cause blue-grey discoloration of the skin and conjunctiva with long term use? Benzocaine, 20% oral gel Colloidal silver, 30 ppm liquid solution Ferrous [+]
The First Pulse Check: How to set yourself up for success in EM residency
“Are you ok?” My wife asked as I flopped onto the bed, which was still just a mattress on the floor. I (KL) had just finished my first shift as a resident [+]
ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl – Hidden Danger
This abdominal radiograph indicates what type of activity? Body packing Body pushing Body stuffing Parachuting [Image from Wikimedia Commons] [+]
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SAEM Clinical Images Series: An Unusual Arm Conundrum
A 58-year-old female with a past medical history significant for osteoporosis presented with right shoulder pain after a witnessed mechanical fall down two stairs. She sustained no headstrike [+]
ACMT Visual Pearl: If the Glove Fits
What medication given intravenously can cause the pictured finding? Carbamazepine Levetiracetam Phenytoin Valproic Acid Image from Dr. Fabio Corsi, MD [1] [+]
ALiEM AIR Series | HEENT Module (2025)
Welcome to the AIR HEENT 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 [+]
How I Educate Series: Jailyn Avila, MD
This week’s How I Educate post features Dr. Jailyn Avila, core faculty at Southwest Healthcare EM Residency and creator of Core Ultrasound. Dr. Avila spends approximately 70% of her shifts with learners which include emergency medicine residents, off-service residents, and medical students. She describes her practice environment as a hybrid academic/community practice that is about to start its 3rd year of EM residents. Below she shares with us her approach to teaching learners on [+]
The 1440 Doctor: 3 Tips for Combating Distractions while Working From Home
We have all been there. You sit down to write your next masterpiece that you know any journal would be lucky to accept and “ding” your phone goes off. You check it, you [+]
IDEA Series: DIY Suture Kit Station
In medical training there is a lack of simulation based activities including procedural labs. Suturing is a critical skill for trainees to master in the emergency department. However, supervised practice is needed prior [+]
20 Tips for Career Success and Longevity in Emergency Medicine
Photo by Snapwire on Pexels.com The practice of emergency medicine (EM) is consistently challenging. At any given moment during a shift, emergency physicians are responsible for making numerous decisions about multiple patients. Many of [+]
ALiEM Stands in Solidarity with Our Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Community
We at ALiEM wholeheartedly condemn the xenophobia, intolerance, and hate crimes directed towards Asians and the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. Recent events spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic are hurtful, “othering,” and simply unacceptable. Anti-Asian hate crimes across the country since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic have increased 833% in 2020, compared to 2019, in cities across the United States [1]. This heart-breaking trend of violent assaults against individuals in the AAPI [+]
2019-20 Wellness Think Tank: Open call for 30 passionate EM residents focused on physician wellness
We are thrilled to announce the open call for the fourth class of the ALiEM Wellness Think Tank. Every year has a different ambitious focus and this upcoming year is no different. We [+]
Study: Thematic analysis of our “How I Work Smarter” series
In 2014-15, we hosted a “How I Work Smarter” (HIWS) series, led by Dr. Ben Azan, focusing on the individual strategies of high-performing, successful emergency physicians. After the [+]
Health Insurance 101 for the Emergency Physician
A 28 year-old single man with type I diabetes mellitus presents to your busy Texas emergency department in diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). This is his third hospitalization for DKA [+]
