Residents

• Ways To Ace Residency

  Image Credit: Pexels Author: Adriana Coleska, MD, AAEM/RSA Board of Directors Originally published: Common Sense November/December 2019 My name is Adriana and I am one of the AAEM/RSA Board Members and your liaison to the Publications and Social Media Committee. As I transition into my role as the senior resident, I thought I would share with […]
• The Last Lecture to the Newly Graduating Emergency Medicine Residents

  Author: James Keaney, MD MPH MAAEM FAAEMFirst President of AAEMOriginally published: Common Sense May/June 2019 The Current Climate of EM – How Did We Get Here?There are several recurrent phrases making their way into the vernacular of emergency medicine including transmutation, Joe the Plummer, the Leviathan Levy, and tumbleweed doctors. The transmutation of clinically generated […]
• Getting the Most Out of Residency

  Image Credit: Pixabay Author: Meaghan Mercer, DO2014-2015 RSA PresidentOriginally Published: Common Sense September/October 2014 As I enter my third year of residency, the end of training is becoming more of a reality every day. I have received many pearls of wisdom along my path from medical students to residents to soon-to-be-attendings. With less than a […]
• Residency Work Hour Restrictions: Is the Pendulum Swinging Back?

  Author: Mike Wilk, MDPGY-1, Brown EM Originally Published: Common Sense January/February 2017 “I walked into the hospital on my first day of residency and didn’t walk out until 36 hours later. Those were the darkest days of my life, but I am the doctor that I am today because I went through that,” I still […]
• 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 […]
• 6 Elements to Consider When Making Your Rank List

  Image Credit: Flickr Author: Matthew CamaraMSIV – Ross UniversityInternational Rep, AAEM/RSA Medical Student Council ’14-’15 When interview season is underway, students have the task of putting prospective programs into a rank list. It may be beneficial to start creating a preliminary rank list based on information that is available to you for each program. As […]
• Relevance of New CDC Opiate Guidelines for Emergency Physicians

  Author: Samuel Bergin, MSIV, Uniformed Services University of the Health SciencesChad Roberts, MSII and Scott Pew, MPH Candidate University of Utah Originally Published: Modern Resident April/May 2016 EpidemiologyWhile the CDC was compiling data from 1999 to 2014, more than 165,000 people in the US died from overdoses linked to prescription opioids.[1] The opioids most commonly […]
• Patient Satisfaction

  Common Sense – AAEM Member Magazine Author: Victoria Weston, MDAAEM/RSA Immediate Past PresidentOriginally 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 […]
• Age-Adjusted D-Dimer in the Evaluation of Venous Thromboembolic Disease

  Common Sense – AAEM Member Magazine Authors: Lee Grodin, MD; Raymond Beyda, MD; Kaycie Corburn, MD; Jacqueline Shibata, MDEdited By: Jay Khadpe, MD FAAEM and Michael C. Bond, MD FAAEM Originally Published: November/December 2016 Common Sense The D-dimer test is an important and widespread tool to assess for venous thromboembolic disease (VTE) in low risk […]

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