EM Residents Use ACEP Grant to Teach Citizen First-Responder Courses
When we work in an emergency department, we are ready for anything and everything. But even without…
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Overcoming Unconscious Bias Takes Strategy and Collective Effort
Clinicians are more likely to consider black patients less compliant and less cooperative in medical settings than…
Lessons Learned During My First Year as an Attending Physician
Someone once told me that the learning curve after completing residency is steep and the first three…
Short-term Opioids for Pain Still Come with Side Effects
Patients who only briefly take opioid painkillers are still likely to face side effects, a study published…
New ACEP Leaders Selected for 2019–2020
The ACEP Council held its leadership elections Oct. 26, 2019, at its annual meeting in Denver. Mark…
3-Year MD Degrees Are Becoming More Common
The following is a summary of “Several Medical Schools in the United States Offer Three-Year MD Degrees…
Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association Celebrates 45th Anniversary
The Past “So there we were in a hotel bar in Dallas in the spring of 1974,…
How to Solve Emergency Department Overcrowding
Eleven years ago, a 45-year-old aboriginal double-amputee named Brian Sinclair was found dead by ED staff in…
ACEP Council Considers Social, Clinical Issues in a Variety of Resolutions
The 2019 ACEP Council considered several resolutions during its annual meeting Oct. 25–26, including proposals related to…
Chest Tubes: Pearls and Pitfalls
When U.S. Air Force Maj. Regan Lyon, MD, FACEP, was in medical school and residency, she nearly…