EMRA Board of Directors , ACGME RC-EM , EMRA Spotlight

New Board: ACGME RC-EM Liaison Dr. Breanne Jaqua

12/10/2019

The Representative Council elected 5 new members to the EMRA Board of Directors. Meet your ACGME RC-EM Liaison Breanne Jaqua, DO, MPH!

EMRA Board of Directors , Representative Council

New Board: Vice Speaker of the Council Dr. Tracy Marko

12/10/2019

The Representative Council elected 5 new members to the EMRA Board of Directors. Meet your Vice Speaker of the Council Tracy Marko, MD, PhD, MS!

Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy

Health Policy Journal Club: Emergency Docs, Advocate for Medicaid!

12/6/2019 Nishad A. Rahman, MD

The encouraging findings from this study? Medicaid expansion was successful in that repeat users shifted their ED use toward higher acuity conditions – that is, conditions for which EDs were designed.

Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy

Health Policy Journal Club: Is There Systemic Racism in EMS?

11/6/2019 Joshua Ellis, MD

Segregation in America was abolished on paper decades ago. But does it exist in practice?

Match , Program Director Interviews

Program Director Interview Series: Braden Hexom, MD | Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL

10/21/2019 Samuel Southgate, MD, MA

Program Director Interview Series: Braden Hexom, MD | Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL Samuel Southgate, MSIV, University of Connecticut Sc

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Hematology , Orthopedics

Multiple Myeloma: Diagnostic and Treatment Considerations in the Emergency Department

10/10/2019 Daniel Patino-Calle, MD , Shawn London, MD, FACEP

Symptoms of multiple myeloma can be as nondescript as weight loss, fatigue, generalized weakness, and bone pain. Focus on the classic tetrad of hypercalcemia, renal failure, anemia, and bony lytic les

Op-Ed , Sports Medicine

Do Sports Have an Effect on Gang Violence?

10/10/2019 Dustin Harris, MD

Can participation in sports programs reduce the chances of delinquent behavior in school-age children? A sports medicine fellow weighs in.

Clinical , International EM

A New Beginning: Emergency Medicine in Lao PDR

10/10/2019 Mouavang Xiapao , Anouphet Yengtavanh , Thepbandith Sydavong

Meet three of your colleagues expanding medical care in Laos by becoming some of the first emergency medicine specialists in this developing country.

Clinical , Space Medicine

What is Aerospace Medicine?

10/10/2019 Emily Stratton, MD

This specialty is ideal for emergency medicine and about ready to take off. Read on to get a grounded understanding of what it's like to care for patients extraterrestrially.

Cardiology , Shock

Management of Atrial Fibrillation in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

10/10/2019 Vase Bari, MD , B. Bryan Graham, DO

About 1 in 5 patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy will develop atrial fibrillation. Here's how to clue in to this underlying cause of the dysrhythmia when a patient presents to you in the ED.

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