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COVID-19 , Wellness

Weathering the Storm: What Psychiatrists Want You to Know

4/13/2020 Jessi Gold, MD, MS , Margaret Duncan

Overwhelming volume and acuity, an alarming lack of PPE, the anguish of seeing your patients die alone, the jarring incongruence of layoffs and salary cuts - COVID-19 brings with it a major threat to

President's Message

President's Message: Protecting the Integrity of Residency Training

4/9/2020 Hannah R. Hughes, MD, MBA , Corey McNeilly,

Seemingly every social media outlet used by emergency medicine physicians-in-training blew up on Feb. 22 in response to a proposed non-physician emergency medicine "residency" training program at UNC.

Editor's Forum , Health Policy

Editor's Forum: Apathy Is Not Cool

4/9/2020 Priyanka Lauber, DO

EM Resident's Editor-in-Chief investigates: When did organizational medicine become a dirty word? When did getting involved in physician administration and advocacy become uncool?

Away Rotations , Medical Students , COVID-19

COVID-19 Quarantine Can't Contain Medical Student Creativity

4/7/2020 Matthew J. Christensen, MD, LT, MC, USN , Jazmyn Shaw

Since clerkships were disrupted by a global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, medical students got creative. Contributing to health care during the COVID-19 crisis of 2020 has taken many forms for those not yet at

Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy

Health Policy Journal Club: Until Medicaid Arrived, Nowhere Else to Turn

4/6/2020 Nardos Makonnen, MD

Why do patients seek emergency care? That key question can help frame the conversation about Medicaid expansion and ED volume.

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Career Planning , COVID-19

A Letter to Graduating Residents & Fellows during the COVID-19 Pandemic

4/6/2020 Gus M. Garmel, MD, FACEP, FAAEM

Everyone in emergency medicine prepares for emergencies. But the COVID-19 pandemic presents challenges on a different scale and of a different nature. Graduating residency and entering the profession

Infectious Disease , Pulmonary , COVID-19 , Medical Student Council

COVID Rapid Response Team - Chicago

3/31/2020

The largest coordinated mobilization of medical students in the country in the face of an unprecedented pandemic begins.

Match , Program Director Interviews

Program Director Interview Series: Dr. Ryan Bodkin, MD | Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

3/20/2020

This next installment of the Program Director Interview Series comes from the banks of the Genesee River in Rochester, New York. We caught up with Dr. Ryan Bodkin about life and training in Rocheste

Infectious Disease , COVID-19

10 COVID-19 Myths: Separating Facts from Fiction

3/18/2020 Sajid Khan, MD

As media and social media coverage is increasing when it comes to coronavirus, here are the facts to help bust a few myths that are circulating.