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Supporting Pregnant and Pumping Emergency Medicine Residents

11/3/2025 Debra Linfield, MD, MS , Jude Malican, MD, FACEP
Do emergency medicine trainees feel supported as new parents? In particular, do pregnant and breastfeeding mothers in medicine have what they need to balance the demands of training and motherhood?
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Wellness , Opinion-Editorial , Medical Education

Opinion: A Counterintuitive Approach to Combating Imposter Syndrome—An Intern’s Perspective

11/3/2025 Noah Fiala, DO
Opinion: A Counterintuitive Approach to Combating Imposter Syndrome—An Intern’s Perspective   Picture this: It’s your second month of residency, and you’re deep into a hectic ED shift. The pressure i
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Op-Ed , Wellness

Significance

5/15/2025 Rae Guinan, MD
Our job is emotionally and physically exhausting and getting harder all the time with changes to the health care system. We see horrific things daily and walk hand in hand with unfixable social proble
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Anniversary , Wellness

EMRA Art Gallery 2024

12/15/2024
Welcome to the EMRA Art Gallery 2024. Find the most outstanding arts & crafts, music, prose, poetry, photography, and painting - all done by emergency physicians.
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President's Message , Leadership , Wellness

From Burnout to Breakthrough

12/10/2024 David Wilson
Burnout isn't just a buzzword in EM - it’s a lived reality. EMRA President Dave Wilson reflects on a key treatment for burnout: belonging. Build your lifelong professional community, starting with EMR
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Heart of EM , Wellness , Medical Education

Pregnant in Residency: An Act in Three Parts

12/3/2024 Ellen Shank, MD
Being pregnant during residency presents many challenges - including the delicate balance between caring for patients and caring for the developing life inside. How do we hold these two realities in t
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Wellness , Medical Education

Healthy Sleep Patterns During Residency: Recommendations for Maintaining Adequate Sleep Routines with Advice on Habits to Avoid and Scheduling Benefits to Seek

12/3/2024 Jessie K. Cable, DO , Danielle A. Andrews, MD, MPH
What are realistic ways to overcome obstacles and prioritize good sleeping habits during residency? In this paper we offer recommendations for maintaining adequate sleep routines with advice on habits
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Workplace , Burnout , Administration & Operations

The Value of Communication in the ED

11/1/2024 Jeffrey Phillips, MD , David Jones, MD, MCR
We present a qualitative study of dynamics, camaraderie, and belonging between emergency physicians and nurses. Healthy communication within the emergency department team is shown to improve both pati
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Wellness , Heart of EM

Work Hard, Play Hard, Love Harder

10/31/2024 Krupa Shukla, DO
Distance alone is tough on a new relationship, but distance in the midst of residency training is unimaginably tougher. These years can teach you a lot about the true meaning of a partnership.
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Medical Education , Wellness

I Was the Attending, but My Residents Were More Experienced

10/31/2024 Masood R. Mohammed, DO, MS
Being a new attending in a department with senior residents who have practiced the same amount of time or even longer than yourself is a unique experience. Growing into this role is not without its ch