Clerkships in Emergency Medicine.

Planning for clerkships in emergency medicine (EM) can be stressful, prolonged, and challenging. Therefore, medical students should start planning for them early. In this article, we offer guidance regarding several issues pertinent to the EM clerkship, such as the best time to schedule one (or more) during medical school, the most appropriate institution or program to schedule it, the process of selecting and applying for the clerkship, and the number of EM clerkships to consider.

Letters of Recommendation.

Letters of recommendation (LORs) are a central element of an applicant's portfolio for the National Resident Matching Program (known as the "Match"). This is especially true when applying to competitive specialties like emergency medicine (EM). LORs convey an applicant's potential for success, and also highlight an applicant's qualities that cannot always be recognized from a curriculum vitae, test scores, or grades.

How do emergency physicians interpret prescription narcotic history when assessing patients presenting to the emergency department with pain?

Context: Narcotics are frequently prescribed in the Emergency Department (ED) and are increasingly abused. Prescription monitoring programs affect prescribing by Emergency Physicians (EPs), yet little is known on how EPs interpret prescription records.

Objective: To assess how EPs interpret prescription narcotic history for patients in the ED with painful conditions.

Reviewing manuscripts for biomedical journals.

Writing for publication is a complex task. For many professionals, producing a well-executed manuscript conveying one's research, ideas, or educational wisdom is challenging. Authors have varying emotions related to the process of writing for scientific publication.

Radial artery pseudoaneurysm formation after cat bite to the wrist.

Pseudoaneurysms may occur in the groin after catheterization of the femoral artery but may also occur in arteriovenous shunting for dialysis after placement of indwelling catheters or after direct trauma to an artery. We report a unique cause of radial artery pseudoaneurysm at the wrist related to a cat bite sustained by an elderly woman. The patient underwent successful operative repair of the aneurysm, with ligation of the radial artery.