patient management

Image Credit: Flickr Author: Victoria Weston, MDAAEM/RSA President ’15-’16Originally Published: Common Sense March/April 2016 Patient satisfaction. It feels like sometimes the concept is overemphasized, yet another addition to the countless expectations and constraints placed on doctors. I have felt this way at times, but recently my thinking has shifted. Instead of trying to meet arbitrary […]

Originally Published: Common Sense, March/April 2016 Author: Gregory K. Wanner, DO PA-CSenior Emergency Medicine Resident, Thomas Jefferson University Author: Andrew W. Phillips, MD MedCritical Care Fellow, Stanford University, Division of Critical CareStaff Emergency Physician, The Permanente Group In “Improving Efficiency for Residents, Part 1” (Common Sense, Mar/Apr 2016), we discussed patients per hour (pt/hr), factors […]

Image Credit: Flickr Originally Published: Common Sense, March/April 2016 Author: Gregory K. Wanner, DO, PA-CThomas Jefferson University Author: Andrew W. Phillips, MD, MedStanford University, Division of Critical Care Read part 2 here: Improving Efficiency for Residents Residency is a time for improvement. Improving procedural skills, gaining clinical acumen, and growing knowledge are chief goals during […]

Image Source: Bigstock Author: Jennifer Stancati Midwest Regional Representative AAEM/RSA Medical Student Council ’14-’15 Most students would agree that presenting a patient on rounds or to your attending is one of the scariest parts of being a third or fourth year medical student. Whether you are in a group or one-on-one, all eyes and attention […]

Source: Flickr Author: Heather Boynton, MDUC San Diego Health System Originally Published: Modern Resident February/March 2016 With pediatric cases, we often say that we have two patients: the child and the parent. How does our approach change when the parent is the patient, and the kids are in the room too? On a recent string […]