EMRA MedWAR 2016

The First Annual EMRA MedWAR, in collaboration with the ACEP Wilderness Medicine Section, was a wildly successful and highly entertaining challenge. The inaugural event was held at Red Rock Canyon outside of Las Vegas.

Congratulations to our 2016 EMRA MedWAR winners!

First Place: Medical College of Georgia (Team Mzungus)
Second Place: Team UCSF-SFGH (Trauma November)
Third Place: Team Stanford-Kasier (Know When to Fold ‘Em)

In addition to the top 3 finishing teams, the EMRA Wilderness Division congratulates all the racers whose participation made the day so successful:

University of Mississippi Medical Center (Don’t Suck Out the Poison)

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (LexVegas Reunion Tour)

Madigan Army Medical Center (Rambo Medicine)

Saint Louis University (The Bair Huggers)

Yale-New Haven Hospital (Yale Poison IV)

Univ of Chicago (The Throckmortons)

Texas A&M Corpus Christi (Corpus Crabs)

Additional pictures from EMRA MedWAR 2016

Optimism vs. Realism — Let’s Call it a Tie

As the voice of emergency medicine physicians-in-training and the future of our specialty, EMRA continues to believe that the future of EM is bright while remaining committed to facing reality and addressing our headwinds. I invite you all to join us in this Stockdale Paradox-esque approach.