patient management

• Choose Compassion: How We Can Provide Better Care For Our Most Vulnerable Patients

  In this episode, Mitchell Zekhtser, MD and Christopher Doty, MD FAAEM discuss how to provide better care for the most vulnerable patients. Dr. Zekhtser, is an Emergency Medicine Resident at Albany Medical Center, as well as a past AAEM/RSA Medical Student Council Western Regional Representative, and a past AAEM/RSA Vice Chair of the Education Committee, […]
• Patient Satisfaction

  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 […]
• How Do I Know If I Go Too Slow? Improving Efficiency for Residents, Part 2

  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 […]
• How Do I Know If I Go Too Slow? Improving Efficiency for Residents, Part 1

  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 […]
• How to Give a Great Presentation to Your EM Attending Physician

  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 […]
• Notes from the Night Shift: Single Parents as Patients

  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 […]

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