In-Service Exams, E-Orals, and a New Emergency Medicine Dual Specialty
Updates from the American Board of Emergency Medicine Today's emergency medicine residents are more tech-savvy than ever, and th
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
Spotlight on An International EM Doc
Hilmar Kjartansson, MD, FACEM, a native of Grindavik, Iceland (a small fishing town near Reykjavik), works as the clinical director of emergency medicine at the N
What Do Residents Need to Know?
Emergency departments (EDs) nationwide depend on physician assistants (PAs) to assist in seeing high volumes of patients with varying complaints and complexity. In fac
A Brief History of Emergency Medical Services in the United States
Pre-hospital emergency care in the modern age is often described as a “hierarchy” of human and physical resources utilized in the ac
Dutch Lessons for U.S. Health Care
A 51-year-old female with hypertension calls EMS for palpitations. The crew arrives on the north side of town to a large, somewhat worn apartment complex. A family
EMRA Resident Forum and ACEP15: Make the Most of It!
It happens in late fall and accelerates into spring: Graduating residents start to stress about the move into practice. Not the medical or profess
Creando Nuevos Caminos Internacionales: Una Entrevista con el Doctor Haywood Hall
En los últimos años, medicina internacional ha tenido un constante crecimiento y expansión dentro de la medicina de u
Describing Scribes: Improving Efficiency and Satisfaction in the ED
Editor's Note: EM Resident is launching this new series, “What I Wish I Knew,” to help residents and medical students benefit from
The July Effect: Is the Emergency Department Safe?
Media outlets have been stepping up their game with increasingly captivating headlines. When we see titles like “Viagra Con Man Hit with a Stiff Sen