Alyka Glor Fernandez The Emergency Department (ED) is busy. Resident and attending physicians are occupied every minute of their shifts with patient care, procedures, orders, and charting. In addition, they are responsible for teaching and supervising medical students who rotate in the ED. While our [...]
Samuel James Nobilucci, DO, MSM-HCA, EMT-P Emergency medicine (EM) is a complex and adaptive specialty that blends the knowledge base of a general practitioner with aspects from nearly every other specialty. Be it pediatrics, geriatrics, infectious disease, surgery, or any number of organ-based focu [...]
Anastasia Ambrosio, OMS III ACOEP RSO Student Conference Chair Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences The nurses, the PAs, and even a stray patient in the hallway stared at me, all alarmed. I was excited to get a pimping question right. Muffled heart sounds, hypotension and JVD: the tria [...]
Samuel Nobilluci DO Jordan Miller DO Ari Leib MD Adena Regional Medical Center Case presentation A 88-year-old Caucasian female walks into the emergency department after her primary care physician told her she had an abnormal lab. She reports that she otherwise feels fine and denies visual changes, [...]
Melinda Kizziah, OMS-III West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine Summer is over and if you’re a second-year medical student, you are gearing up for another busy but exciting year of medical school. With first year under your belt, you’re probably feeling more confident and prepared to move one [...]
The ACOEP-RSO (American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians - Resident-Student Organization) provides emergency medicine (EM) residents and student members a wealth of opportunities and benefits. From RSO events at Scientific Assembly and Student Symposiums, to the Resident Education Package [...]
The ACOEP-RSO has been proudly representing its members at the biannual All Emergency Medicine Residents Organization and Students (AEROS) group meetings, where we have collaborated on several projects to advocate for emergency medicine (EM) residents and students regarding many issues such as maint [...]
Peter Nesbitt, OMS-IV @LECOM, Erie, PA Dhimitri Nikolla, DO @AHN Saint Vincent Hospital, Erie, PA CASE 60 year-old male with quadriplegia due to spinal cord injury and chronic Foley catheter presented to the emergency department (ED) with hematuria and confusion. The catheter was exchanged one day p [...]
Christina Powell, DO Past Director of Student Affairs, ACOEP-RSO University of Maryland Medical Center, Class of 2022 As we transition to yet another cycle of daunting applications, painfully edited personal statements, and hours waiting anxiously by the phone for interview offers to enter the email [...]
Christopher Hart, OMS-II @LECOM-Erie Dhimitri A Nikolla, DO, PGY-4 @AHN Saint Vincent Hospital INTRODUCTION Emergency physicians often have difficulty dispositioning patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with acute dyspnea caused by exacerbations in either chronic obstructive pulmonar [...]