By Jamil Madati Sorry for the delay in getting this out. Was busy searching for an article that would nicely summarize how the Affordable Care Act impacts us in the ED… lucky for you guys I couldn’t find one! Instead, to dove tail into the awesome ED-HM conference this week I decided to include the […]
Author: Katie Donnelly MD
Katie's research interests include medical education, trauma and injury prevention. Outside of the ED, Katie enjoys live sporting events, the National Zoo, and all the free museums here in DC!
AOTW: Ebola!!!
Ebola and Quarantine Ebola Virus Outcomes in Sierra Leone In case you aren’t sick of reading/talking about Ebola yet, thought these 2 articles published recently in NEJM were interesting. One is an editorial discussing NJ and NY’s recent decision to impose a mandatory quarantine on health care workers who have returned from caring for patients […]
AOTW: Feedback for Medical Students
Feedback on Oral Presentations During Pediatric Clerkships This article caught my interest because of our ongoing safety and communication initiatives, and our ongoing educational improvements. The article and the study itself are fine in terms of intent, scope, design, analysis, at least for a feedback/survey-oriented study. The results: not earth shattering. If you want to […]
AOTW: Limping By on Splint Placement
This comes from a NY Times article Mistakes in Treating Childhood Fractures published late last week that references an abstract presented at the AAP Conference. This abstract seems to be getting a good bit of press (second only to keynote speaker Hilary Clinton getting heckled by someone with a bullphone), so this may be brought […]
AOTW: Chikungunya
Dear All, The gPEM team was supposed to go to Jamaica in a month for a conference, but this was unfortunately just canceled because of an outbreak keeping the hospital busy there. This outbreak appears to be secondary to a virus, Chikungunya. So, from Enterovirus to Ebola… here’s an other one to potentially expect in […]