Impact of COVID-19 on Emergency Medicine Residency Programs: A Cross-Sectional Study in New York State.

Introduction: The 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic has caused significant disruptions in the clinical operations of hospitals as well as clinical education, training, and research at academic centers. New York State was among the first and largest epicenters of the pandemic, resulting in significant disruptions across its 29 emergency medicine (EM) residency programs. We conducted a cross-sectional observational study of EM residency programs in New York State to assess the impact of the pandemic on resident education and training programs.

The Ability of Patients to Correctly Identify Their Hospitalist on a Patient Satisfaction Survey and the Impact of This Factor on Hospitalist Scores.

Patient evaluations of their physician have been utilized to evaluate physician performance and calculate hospital reimbursement. Despite the routine use of these evaluations, little research has been done to evaluate the accuracy of these evaluations. We assessed patient's ability to correctly identify the hospitalist providing their care and whether identification of the hospitalist affected the cumulative satisfaction scores.

The relationship between faculty performance assessment and results on the in-training examination for residents in an emergency medicine training program.

Background: Medical knowledge (MK) in residents is commonly assessed by the in-training examination (ITE) and faculty evaluations of resident performance.

Objective: We assessed the reliability of clinical evaluations of residents by faculty and the relationship between faculty assessments of resident performance and ITE scores.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional, observational study at an academic emergency department with a postgraduate year (PGY)-1 to PGY-3 emergency medicine residency program, comparing summative, quarterly, faculty evaluation data for MK and overall clinical competency (OC) with annual ITE scores, accounting for PGY level.

Comparison of Metallic Foreign-Body Removal between Dynamic Ultrasound and Static Radiography in a Pigs' Feet Model.

Introduction: We compared the immediate cosmetic outcome of metallic foreign-body removal by emergency medicine (EM) residents with ultrasound guidance and conventional radiography.

Methods: This single-blinded, randomized, crossover study evaluated the ability of EM residents to remove metallic pins embedded in pigs' feet. Before the experiment, we embedded 1.

Direct observation evaluations by emergency medicine faculty do not provide data that enhance resident assessment when compared to summative quarterly evaluations.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to compare quarterly global evaluations with direct observation evaluations to determine if direct observation evaluations provide unique data compared to those obtained from quarterly global evaluations.

Methods: This observational, cohort study was performed at a 3-year emergency medicine (EM) residency program with 10 residents per year. Faculty used an online Web-based evaluation system to complete quarterly global evaluations and patient-specific direct observation evaluations.

A survey of the emergency department population and their interest in preventive health education.

Objective: To determine which preventive health information the emergency department (ED) population (patients and visitors) would be most interested in having available to them while they spend time in the waiting area.

Methods: This was a prospective survey of consecutive adults seated in the ED waiting area during a representative week on predetermined shifts. The survey asked them to indicate whether they would be interested in obtaining information about the following preventive health issues: breast cancer, prostate cancer, smoking, obesity, stress reduction, exercise programs, alcohol/drugs, HIV, blood pressure screening, immunizations, referrals to primary care physicians, Pap smears, car safety, smoke detectors, domestic and youth violence, depression, gun safety, and safe sex.

Microphone array measurement system for analysis of directional and spatial variations of sound fields.

A measurement system has been developed that is capable of analyzing the directional and spatial variations in a reverberant sound field. A spherical, 32-element array of microphones is used to generate a narrow beam that is steered in 60 directions. Using an omnidirectional loudspeaker as excitation, the sound pressure arriving from each steering direction is measured as a function of time, in the form of pressure impulse responses.