The Most Dangerous 10 Minutes of Your Shift: Mastering the ED Hand-Off
Handoffs are everywhere, from shift changes to trauma transfers. Each one is a chance for error. A standardized, structured sign-out protects patients, supports teamwork, and makes you a safer, more effective emergency physician. Why Sign-Outs Matter In emergency medicine, handoffs are constant and high-risk. Nearly a third of healthcare workers report an adverse event tied to a poor handoff. When communication falters, patients suffer: delayed results, missed diagnoses, duplicated work, or forgotten tasks. The [+]
Hot off the press: Bridge to EM curriculum (2nd edition) released
It has been 3 years since the 8-week, self-guided Bridge to Emergency Medicine (EM) curriculum was launched to help graduating medical students prepare for EM residency. The curriculum has been viewed over [+]
ALiEM AIR Series | Renal Module (2023)
Welcome to the AIR Renal/GU 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 Team [+]
EM Match Advice 43: EM Program Directors Reflect on the 2024 Match
Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (podcast host and Stanford University PD) and Dr. Michelle Lin (ALiEM Founder/UCSF) are joined by Dr. Abra Fant (Northwestern PD) in this discussion reflecting on the 2024 Match results, [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Tropical Rash
The patient is a 30-year-old female with no past medical history who presents to the Emergency Department with 2 months of non-healing ulcers on multiple parts of her body. She reports getting bitten by flies while traveling in wooded trails from Venezuela through Mexico. She reports the bites started as small scabs that have since enlarged, but they are non-painful or pruritic. She has ulcerative lesions [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Two Pupils for the Price of One
A 24-year-old female with no pertinent PMHx presents to the ED with a chief complaint of eye pain. She reported a 10-day history of worsening right eye pain [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Neonatal Rash
An 18-day-old male presented for a rash on his face for two days. The patient was born via spontaneous vaginal delivery full term without complications to a mom [+]
ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl: Salt, not Shock
What agent would most likely be responsible for these ECG findings? Cyclobenzaprine Digoxin Flecainide Sotalol [+]
How I Educate Series: Fareen Zaver, MD
This week's How I Educate post features Dr. Fareen Zaver, the Deputy Head of Education in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Calgary. Dr. Zaver spends approximately 30% of her shifts with learners at two tertiary care hospitals which include emergency medicine residents, off-service residents, and medical students. Below she shares with us her approach to teaching learners on shift. What is one thing (if nothing else) that you hope to [+]
IDEA Series: Pre-recorded Video Simulation Series for Residency Conference
During medical simulation, the inherent unpredictability of learners’ performances and decisions can make it challenging to consistently achieve desired learning objectives. The amount learned and the errors made can vary wildly between groups. [+]
IDEA Series: Big Screen Ultrasound in Resuscitation Bays
Bedside ultrasound (US) often plays a crucial role in medical and trauma resuscitations in the emergency department (ED) [1]. Performing and interpreting bedside US studies such as the Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography [+]
Banishing Busy: Part 3
Medical professionals are busy people and exist in a constant state of “being busy.” How do we resolve chronic “busy-ness”? How do we manage our time effectively? In her recent talk at the [+]
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 in various emergency departments around the country, featured several PECARN authors on our ALiEM podcast, and provide summaries of their 147-and-growing list of publications in our P3 app. So it follows that we are incredibly honored and thrilled to announce our Twitter [+]
Thriving, Not Surviving, in Residency: JGME-ALiEM Hot Topics in Medical Education Journal Club
This year’s JGME-ALiEM Hot Topics in Medical Education journal club features the systematic review on residency wellness recently published in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME). This week, share your thoughts about this timely topic [+]
2017-18 ALiEM Faculty Incubator: 6 reasons why we are excited about Round 2!
We simply have been unable to contain our excitement! You may have heard whispers on the internet, but we can now confirm that indeed, the rumors are true… The ALiEM Faculty Incubator will [+]
Introducing In-Line Expert Peer Review: Advancing the State of Academic Blogging
A peer review process, in one form or another, has long been the de facto standard for academic publishing. In 2013, ALiEM was the first FOAM resource to initiate an attributed peer review [+]
