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I am posting this thread out of sheer curiosity so please forgive me if it is a dumb question. Do Emergency Medicine Physicians actually perform surgery or do they mostly just perform noninvasive procedures? If so, how much time do they actually spend...
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I've done pericardium....
The branch of medicine $120k in debt.
Dictionary.com, surgery:
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The branch of medicine to the OQ requires a clarification of "surgery".
Dictionary.com, surgery:
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To the OQ requires a clarification of "surgery".
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I'm curious about what options physicians have after completing an emergency medicine residency program. I've read that some doctors get "burnt out" after working in an emergency room for years. Would an ER doc be able to practice primary care and possibly...
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Would an ER doc be able to practice.
I've read that some doctors get "burnt out" after working in an emergency room for years.
Physicians have after completing an emergency medicine residency program.
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I see from old threads that wilderness medicine seems to be a fellowship after EM residency. So what sort of "jobs" does this unlock and how hard these to obtain?
I am also confused...if you are far from a clinic and have no labs, no imaging, very few...
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They may get a small wilderness medicine job on the side ranging from working at a ski resort to being a physician at Everest base camp....
Almost all if not most wilderness medicine physicians still spend most of their time working in an ED.
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What are some of the residency programs that have minimal off service rotations?
I have seen a few in researching such as Wake, Baystate, Geisinger, and MCG
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As a current applicant who remembers minimal off-....
Imagine not having it, while others believe you should spend residency learning emergency medicine residency learning emergency medicine in the emergency department.
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In sorry to all the people who may have been hurt by my post. I will endeavor to take my complaints internally, within the program.
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Sincerely,
Chris Moore MD
Associate Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
Yale University,
Chris Moore MD
Associate....
Would helped.
Overall: Do I think I learned a good amount of emergency medicine here? Yes.
To the residents.
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So I had a guy come in with cirrhosis w/ known varices s/p banding/ligation a few days ago - had a few syncopal events prior to presentation.
Guy comes in.... retching cups of blood... I mean, probably a liter at least.
2 large bore IVs, ordered 5u of...
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He didn't make....
A few minutes with family is priceless.
Extubated.
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So, in the interest of continuing discussions that have sprung up in multiple threads, especially the pressor thread, I would like for people to discuss EBM.
As some have put it, if we simply "follow the rules", then we are in effect robots and can easily...
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Should keep doing the studies, or otherwise medicine will continue trying to balance the humors.
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Hi, I hope other interns and senior residents and attendings can weigh in on this...
I'm halfway through my intern year and (granted, I have been on almost all off service months for the first half of this year, only had about 15 real ED shifts..) ......
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Listen.
Listen to EMRAP.
Read more.
It will come so long as you are working hard to learn the medicine.
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We are almost out of etomidate, midazolam and lorazepam. Barbs? Nah, haven't had any in years. This basically leaves propofol, ketamine and brutane. I'm actually considering lower induction doses of propofol with a phenylephrine chaser for my septic patients...
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I'll admit; I'd poop my pants if I had to use anything but etomidate... .
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I'll admit; I'd poop my pants if I had to use anything but etomidate, versed, or ketamine to induce .
Dexmedeto...what ? Doesn't exist.
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Hi everyone,
I just read in the latest NRMP program director survey that EM programs put equal eight on step 2 scores as they do on step 1 scores (3.8 and 3.8)
Everyone keeps telling me that step 1 is so much more important. One EM attending even told...
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Let's see...when I helped interview with the residency and then we sat down for the pow wow after the interviews to decide rough... .
I would take the NRMP survey to be more correct than your n=1 .
Attendings do not necessarily equal program directors.
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