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ACOEP-RSO President and Director of Student Affairs’ Report
Welcome to the Summer edition of The Fast Track! The RSO has had a busy spring! First, Spring Seminar was a huge success! On April 6th, we held our student symposium and received tons of positive feedback. The day began with rapid fire lectures featuring pearls on ventilator management, common toxic [...]
Letter From The Editor- Summer 2018
The summer edition of The Fast Track is here! From meditation to board review to Spring Seminar knowledge pearls, this edition has a ton of great content! You can head on over to The Fast Track current edition page on our website weekly to read new articles or follow our Twitter and Facebook pages t [...]
How to Be That Person Without Being THAT Person…Tips and Tricks for a Successful Emergency Medicine Rotation
Emily Howell, OMS-IV LECOM-Bradenton As emergency medicine becomes more competitive, audition rotations have become increasingly important. These rotations offer the opportunity for programs to assess a candidate’s potential for residency while allowing the candidate to experience potential training [...]
How Can You Prepare For A Successful EM Match?
Jacob Schwab, OMS-II WVSOM Timothy Bikman, OMS-IV WVSOM I recently interviewed National Student Past-President, Tim Bikman. Emergency medicine has become a highly competitive specialty, but there are things you can do each year to set yourself up for success on Match Day. Tim’s answers to the follow [...]
Go To A Conference
Richard Newman, OMS-III WVSOM How are you sure Emergency Medicine (EM) is the field for you? This was a daunting question for me as a first-year medical student with little exposure to any other specialty than family medicine. How do you go from what you think you enjoy to finding your calling? EM h [...]
Board Review Questions-Test Your Skills
1. A 2-year-old male presents with parents after a prolonged seizure of 5 minutes. The parents state that he has been lethargic over the past day with poor oral intake. Finger stick glucose is 452. The patient is poorly responsive and begins seizing again. The best initial therapy is: A. Intravenous [...]
Time for Change
Aaron Markwith, OMS-II Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine For years, I counseled patients on the importance of taking care of themselves. Obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, and high cholesterol seemed to dominate every patient chart I encountered. I knew the risks as [...]
Is There A Doctor On Board?
Jordan Johnson, OMS III LECOM-Bradenton The familiar feeling of descent woke me as I emerged from a much needed nap on my flight from Miami to Denver for the 2017 ACOEP Scientific Assembly. I had fallen asleep to the soothing sound of Pathoma, a common occurrence for medical students. However, not e [...]
Residency Spotlight: Allegheny Health Network – Saint Vincent Hospital
Size: 6 residents per year Program length: 3 years Institution bed size: 425 ED Visits per year: 69,000 ACGME accreditation status: Initial Accreditation Away rotations: One month of pediatric emergency medicine at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Two months of Level 1 Trauma at UPMC Pre [...]
Getting Flash! The Blind “Fem” Line
Dhimitri Nikolla, DO, PGY-3 ACOEP-RSO President AHN Saint Vincent Hospital, Erie, PA INTRODUCTION With the widespread availability of intraosseous (IO) needles and ultrasound, emergent central lines placed with landmark-guidance (LG) are becoming a thing of the past. While IO access is faster and ul [...]