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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

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

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

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

Editorial , Personal

Can You Find the Heartbeat of a City in the ED?

6/7/2016 Shannon Graves, MD

Can You Find the Heartbeat of a City in the ED? Dear Dad, I'm moving to Detroit. Love, Your only daughter I'll never forget telling my family that I was moving to Detroit. My incredibly sweet, quin

Ophthalmology

Unforeseen Dangers: Keeping an Eye on Endophthalmitis

5/26/2016 Terrance McGovern, DO, MPH , David Traficante, DO , Anthony Catapano, DO

Unforeseen Dangers: Keeping an Eye on Endophthalmitis A 58-year-old female presents to the ED with a chief complaint of right eye pain. She underwent cataract surgery 2 days prior and has experienced

Editorial

Weighed Down by Words: How to Recognize and Avoid Anchoring Bias

5/26/2016 Zac Hafez, MD

Weighed Down by Words: How to Recognize and Avoid Anchoring Bias “Chief complaint: flank pain.” I started thinking about my differential: nephrolithiasis, urinary tract infection, pyelonephritis, pel

EMPower

Amal Mattu, MD, FACEP (@amalmattu)

5/26/2016 EM Resident

Amal Mattu, MD, FACEP (@amalmattu) You might know Amal Mattu as a social media giant, with 16,600 Twitter followers, countless readers of his popular blog, ECGWeekly, and an army of faithful podcast

Clinical , Critical Care

A Leg Up: Management of Chronic Wounds in the ED

5/26/2016 Nathan M. Finnerty, MD , Michael B. Weinstock, MD , Colin G. Kaide, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, UHM

A Leg Up: Management of Chronic Wounds in the ED A 54-year-old male with a history of hypertension and morbid obesity presents to the emergency department (ED) with bilateral foot, ankle, and calf pa

Medical Students , Leadership , Med Student , Editorial

Q & A: Medical Student Council - New Leadership, Same Goal

5/26/2016 Seth Kelly, MD, MBA, FF-(W)EMT , Sean Ochsenbein, MSIV

Q & A: Medical Student Council - New Leadership, Same Goal The EMRA Medical Student Council is among the busiest branches of our bustling association, with student membership growing exponentially in