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Does Your Step 1 Score Really Matter? Taking Step 1 is a rite of passage for medical students. If you tell an upperclassman you are studying for this test, they will commiserate with you, remembering
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Program Director Interview Series Joshua Broder, MD, FACEP Duke University Emergency Medicine Program This month, Joshua Broder, Program Director of Duke University Emergency Medicine Program, spoke
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How Has the ACA Affected the Emergency Department? The Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed in 2010 under the Obama administration, sought to increase availability of health care to Americans, especiall
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Find Your Voice! A free trip to Washington D.C.? Sign me up! As a fourth-year medical student who had recently matched into an emergency medicine residency, I thought this non-medical course was a ch
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Best Podcasts for the Student EM Nerd As future emergentologists, we sign up for a life of continuous learning. Even after residency, we will be constantly reading published journal articles to updat
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Health Policy Journal Club: Striking a Balance Between Access and Cost Freestanding emergency departments offer risks and rewards to our health care system. In the 1970s, the freestanding emergency d
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Osteopathic Student Guide to the ACGME Match Ross Christensen, DO, and Thomas Eales, DO, are recent graduates of Des Moines University, and both participated in the National Resident Matching Program
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Program Director Interview Series: Ryan Fringer, MD, FACEP | William Beaumont Hospital This month, the EMRA Medical Student Council interviewed Ryan Fringer, MD, FACEP, Program Director of Beaumont H
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Preparing for the Standardized Video Interview This year, students applying to EM residencies will be required to complete a Standardized Video Interview (SVI) with their ERAS application. This video
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Disaster Medicine: Engaging Your EMIG In the fall of 2016, an attack at The Ohio State University, my alma mater and a school just down the road from my current medical school, hit close to home. Luc