Uniformed Medical Students and Residents in Emergency Medicine.

"Uniformed medical students and residents" refers to medical school enrollees and physicians in training who are obligated to serve in the military after graduation or training completion. This is in exchange for 2 forms of financial support that are provided by the military for individuals interested in pursuing a career in medicine. These programs are offered namely through the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS) and the Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP).

Physician Time Management.

Introduction: Time management is an essential skill set for physicians. The importance of time management is not routinely emphasized in undergraduate or graduate medical education curricula, often resulting in the development of poor time-management practices early in training. Improving time-management practices may lead to decreased stress, increased productivity, and improved well-being for physicians.

Multi-Institutional Survey of Fourth Year Students' Self Assessed Milestone Based Skill Proficiency and Faculty Expectation During an Emergency Medicine Clerk-ship: Implications For Curriculum Development.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Emergency medicine milestones suggest skill performance expectations for graduating medical students.

Negotiating Work-Life Integration.

Introduction: Integrating work and home domains is a constant challenge for medical professionals. Only half of physicians report positive work-life satisfaction, implying that negotiating the inherent conflicts between work and home may not be intuitive. Early teaching of skills focused on professional sustainability may best prepare physicians to navigate conflicts between work and home domains.

Diagnostic Reasoning Assessment Toolkit: Guided Reflection and Standardized Cases for At-Risk Final-Year Medical Students.

Introduction: A failing diagnostic reasoning performance may represent student deficiency in a number of potential areas. However, many standard clinical skills assessments do not offer detailed assessments of diagnostic reasoning ability. This toolkit was designed to identify specific learner deficiencies with respect to diagnostic reasoning by focusing on individual student remedial work and by standardizing faculty evaluation.

Pelvic tumor presenting as chronic back pain in a young adult.

A large proportion of Emergency Department visits are for chronic pain, specifically for chronic back pain. Often this entity requires minimal diagnostics. However, certain populations and presentations require a higher vigilance and a more detailed evaluation.

The unique educational value of emergency medicine student interest groups.

Student interest groups offer many additional educational opportunities for medical students. The discipline of Emergency Medicine is uniquely positioned to provide medical students with additional resources that may enhance student involvement in clinical and community projects. Because of Emergency Medicine's strong intrinsic ties with both clinical medicine and the surrounding community, students can use Emergency Medicine student interest groups to implement programs designed to help them gain clinical exposure, fuel research ideas, serve the local community, and most importantly, better themselves as medical students.