Disaster day: a simulation-based competition for educating emergency medicine residents and medical students on disaster medicine.

Background: Disaster medicine is a growing field within the specialty of emergency medicine, but educational training typically focuses on hospital drills or other educational strategies, such as didactics, simulation, or tabletop exercises. With the success of gamification in other medical education applications, we sought to investigate if a novel gamified curricular innovation would lead to improved test performance and confidence in the ability to manage a real mass casualty incident (MCI).

Methods: This was a prospective observational study of medical students and emergency medicine residents who participated in a 4-h simulation-based competition consisting of 4 unique stations.

Evaluating patients who present with pain complaints to a community hospital emergency department: Opioid prescription tracking software versus provider gestalt.

Objective: This study aimed to compare provider gestalt to assigned Narx score, a common prescription drug monitor-ing program (PDMP) component that gauges the patient's risk of misuse or abuse.

Design: This is a prospective, anonymous survey from advanced practice providers (APPs), emergency medicine resi-dents, and emergency medicine attendings.

Setting: Data from two emergency departments (EDs) within the OhioHealth network were included.