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The Seemingly Impossible Task of Mourning During Medical Education
Andrew Griffin, OMS-III Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences A couple of weeks into my surgery rotation, I came home from an extended shift when I checked my phone to read dozens of condolences on one of my friend’s Facebook walls alluding to that something severe had happened. Not wan [...]
The Approach to Orthopedic Complaints in the Emergency Department
Varsha Aravindabose, OMS-IV at Kansas City University College of Osteopathic Medicine Acute orthopedic complaints comprise a significant number of Emergency Department (ED) visits every year. Yet, studies show that many Emergency Medicine physicians are not confident in their diagnosis and managemen [...]
Why Talk Flu During a Pandemic?
Taylor A. Klein, MS, OMS-IV Nicholas S. Bowman, OMS-IV If conversations in your household are anything like ours, we are rapidly approaching our regularly scheduled influenza debate. The arguments are numerous: “That vaccine never works anyway.” “Any time I get that vaccine, I get the flu from it.” [...]
Investigating Inversions To A Tee
Jeff Thekkekara, OMS-IV, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences The discovery of the electrocardiogram (ECG) by the Dutch physiologist, Dr. Wilhelm Einthoven, would eventually win him the Nobel Prize in 1924, but he could not have done so without the knowledge that came before him. For e [...]
A Thing Not Looked for Is Seldom Found
Alyka Glor Fernandez, OMS-IV Mitchell Dean Maulfair, DO A previously healthy 16-year-old male presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. He woke up with abdominal pain that steadily worsened and was unrelieved by a dose of over the counter simethicone. This pro [...]
Applying Emergency Medicine During a Pandemic – Advice for Orphan Program Medical Students
Authors: Andrew Langille DO1, Christina Hornack DO2, Dhimitri Nikolla DO3 Positions/Affiliations: 1ACOEP-RSO Secretary, EM Resident, UT Nashville, Nashville, TN 2ACOEP-RSO President, EM Resident, Adena Regional Medical Center, Chillicothe, OH 3ACOEP RSAC Chair, EM Attending, AHN Saint Vincent, Erie, [...]
Welcome Emergency Medicine Interns!
Greetings and welcome to our new class of Emergency Medicine Interns! You have joined our specialty during an exciting and uncertain time. But excitement and uncertainty are not new to our specialty, nor do I believe they are unique to it. We are often called to react to situations without enough in [...]
Volunteering as a Medical Student During COVID-19: A Personal Account
Kaley Canova-Gaitros, OMS-IV, Kansas City University I am sure that years from now, my classmates and I will all remember what rotation we were pulled from on March 17, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic; I was in my final week of an ENT Surgery rotation. The next couple of weeks were full of specul [...]
Interview With Stephanie Davis, DO
In May 2020, Sean Creegan, OMS III, sat down (virtually) with Dr. Stephanie Davis, DO, and asked about her work on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is a transcript of some of the interview. Be sure to listen to the audio version for the complete interview, including our discussion on w [...]
What Can I Do?
Taylor Klein, NRAEMT, MSc, OMS-III On Sunday, March 15th, 2020, I was on my OB-GYN rotation and was present for three deliveries. The residents and attendings were pimping me on various OB emergency facts as I had just come off of my ED elective and had shared with them my plans to apply to EM. By [...]