Lifestyle Factors and Other Influences on Medical Students Choosing a Career in Emergency Medicine.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine which lifestyle factors influence medical students who choose a career in emergency medicine (EM).

Methods: Final-year medical students from 10 medical schools were surveyed after the National Residency Match Program match but prior to graduation regarding preferred medical specialty and lifestyle preferences. Responses from students pursuing EM regarding importance of lifestyle factors were compared to students interested in other specialties.

Specialty and Lifestyle Preference Changes during Medical School.

Purpose: Medical student specialty choices have significant downstream effects on the availability of physicians and, ultimately, the effectiveness of health systems. This study investigated how medical student specialty preferences change over time in relation to their demographics and lifestyle preferences.

Method: Students from ten medical schools were surveyed at matriculation (2012) and graduation (2016).

Estimation of laceration length by emergency department personnel.

Introduction: Documentation and billing for laceration repair involves a description of wound length. We designed this study to test the hypothesis that emergency department (ED) personnel can accurately estimate wound lengths without the aid of a measuring device.

Methods: This was a single-center prospective observational study performed in an academic ED.

Injectable lidocaine provides similar analgesia compared to transdermal lidocaine/tetracaine patch for the incision and drainage of skin abscesses: a randomized, controlled trial.

Background: Local anesthesia used for incision and drainage of abscesses is known to be painful.

Study Objective: We studied the analgesia provided by a lidocaine/tetracaine patch compared to injectable lidocaine during incision and drainage (I&D) of skin abscesses.

Methods: This was a prospective, double-blind, randomized, controlled trial carried out in the Emergency Department (ED) of an adult tertiary referral center.

Location of the appendix in the gravid patient.

Background: Several studies have attempted to support or dispel the teaching of appendix movement away from the right lower quadrant (RLQ) during pregnancy with contradictory results.

Objective: This study investigated the location of the appendix in the gravid patient in an emergency department (ED) setting using computed tomography (CT).

Methods: This was a retrospective chart review of consecutive gravid patients presenting to the ED for trauma who required abdominal CT.

The perils of sneezing: Bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax.

This is a brief case report of an adolescent male who developed bilateral spontaneous pneumothorax after sneezing.

Emergency medicine rural rotations: a program director's guide.

The Institute of Medicine's 2006 report titled "Hospital-Based Emergency Care: At the Breaking Point" called national attention to the lack of specialty-trained emergency care practitioners, particularly in rural America. One suggested strategy for narrowing the gap between the prevalence of residency-trained, board-certified emergency physicians practicing in rural and urban emergency departments is the development of rural clinical experiences for emergency medicine residents during the course of their training. This article addresses promotion of a rural emergency medicine rotation to hospital leadership and resident recruits, examines funding sources, discusses medical liability and disability insurance options, provides suggestions for meeting faculty and planned educational activity residency review committee requirements, and offers guidance about site selection to direct emergency medicine academic leaders considering or planning a new rural emergency medicine rotation.