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 perfect time for you to start thinking about interviews. In this episode, Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (Stanford University EM Program Director) provides insider tips on 5 things that you can do now to be prepared to crush your interviews! 1. Consider Your Strategy [+]
Pigtail catheter for pleural drainage: Tips to minimize complications
Traditionally large-bore tube thoracostomy has been the standard of care for treating many acute intrathoracic pathologies [1]. However, the advent of less invasive small-bore chest tubes, also known as pigtail catheters, has [+]
ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl: Abdominal Bruising
What could cause this finding three days after ingestion of a concentrated household substance? Duodenal ulcer Gastric perforation Necrotizing enterocolitis Post-corrosive acute pancreatitis [+]
Cocaine for Epistaxis: What was old is new again
Droperidol is back! Routine use of calcium for cardiac arrest is out? TPA is... well, we won’t go there. The landscape of medicine is continuously being reshaped. New research may question the [+]
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 fracture Multiple fragments Soft tissue fragments All of the above [Author’s own image] [+]
High sensitivity cardiac troponins for ED chest pain evaluation (2022 ACC pathway)
How do we best use high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) to risk stratify patients with symptoms concerning for an acute myocardial infarction (AMI)? The 2022 American College of Cardiology (ACC) pathway provides timely [+]
ALiEM AIR Series | Toxicology Module
Welcome to the AIR Toxicology 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 [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Back Lesion
An 18-year-old-female with no known past medical history presented with a lesion [+]
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 [+]
