Browsing: July 2016

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International

A New Frontier: One Resident's Experience in Tamale, Ghana

7/20/2016 Lydia Luangruangrong, MD
A New Frontier: One Resident's Experience in Tamale, Ghana Figure 1. A 64-year-old male with a past medical history of peptic ulcer disease presents to the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) Emergency De
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Advocacy , Health Policy

How to Talk to Your Legislator

7/19/2016 Patricia Yang
How to Talk to Your Legislator As medical students and future physicians, each of us can think of an issue or concern that we wish would be handled differently. Often, though, we stop at wishing for
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MSIII , MSIV , Match , Away Rotations

How to Succeed on Audition Rotations

7/19/2016 Elena DiMiceli, MD
How to Succeed on Audition Rotations It's that time of the year! Fourth-year medical students are leaving the nest to audition at residency programs across the country. Whether you are rotating at an
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Boundless Opportunities: The Search for Unique Volunteer Experiences in Emergency Medicine

7/19/2016 Arielle King, MSIV
Boundless Opportunities: The Search for Unique Volunteer Experiences in Emergency Medicine “Are you a medic?” asked a concerned teenage girl wearing cat ears as I patrolled the crowded walkways of t
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Airway , Critical Care , Critical Care Alert

Critical Care Alert! Video Laryngoscopy vs. Direct Laryngoscopy During Urgent Endotracheal Intubation

7/6/2016 EMRA Critical Care Division
Critical Care Alert! Video Laryngoscopy vs. Direct Laryngoscopy During Urgent Endotracheal Intubation A 42-year-old man who is diagnosed with community acquired pneumonia is transferred from the medi