Emergency medicine resident productivity across consecutive shifts.

Objectives: Clinical productivity is an important operational and educational metric for emergency medicine (EM) residents. It is unclear whether working consecutive days and circadian disruption impact resident productivity. The objective of this study was to determine whether there is a correlation between consecutive shifts and productivity.

"Two Years Later I'm Still Just as Angry": A Focus Group Study of Emergency and Internal Medicine Physicians on Disrespectful Communication.

: Disrespectful behavior between physicians across departments can contribute to burnout, poor learning environments, and adverse patient outcomes. : In this focus group study, we aimed to describe the nature and context of perceived disrespectful communication between emergency and internal medicine physicians (residents and faculty) at patient handoff. We used a constructivist approach and framework method of content analysis to conduct and analyze focus group data from 24 residents and 11 faculty members from May to December 2019 at a large academic medical center.

Trauma-Informed Care for Acute Care Settings: A Novel Simulation Training for Medical Students.

Introduction: Physicians often care for patients who have experienced traumatic events including abuse, discrimination, and violence. Trauma-informed care (TIC) is a framework that recognizes the prevalence of trauma, promotes patient empowerment, and minimizes retraumatization. There are limited education curricula on how to apply TIC to acute care settings, with simulation-based training presenting a novel educational tool for this aim.

Correlation of attending and patient assessment of resident communication skills in the emergency department.

Background: Communication and interpersonal skills are one of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education's six core competencies. Validated methods for assessing these among trainees are lacking. Educators have developed various communication assessment tools from both the supervising attending and the patient perspectives.

Impact of an end-of-fourth-year emergency medicine bootcamp.

Background: The final months of the fourth-year of medical school are variable in educational and clinical experience, and the effect on clinical knowledge and preparedness for residency is unclear. Specialty-specific "bootcamps" are a growing trend in medical education aimed at increasing clinical knowledge, procedural skills, and confidence prior to the start of residency.

Methods: We developed a 4-week Emergency Medicine (EM) bootcamp offered during the final month of medical school.

A Simulation-Based Prospective Cohort Study on Teaching Best Practices in Firearms Safety.

Background: Gun violence in the United States is a significant public health concern. The high rate of weapons carriage by Americans places medical providers at risk for exposure to firearms in the workplace and provides an opportunity for patient safety counseling. Few curricular interventions have been published on teaching firearms safety principles to medical providers.

Standardized Video Interview Scores Correlate Poorly with Faculty and Patient Ratings.

The Standardized Video Interview (SVI) was developed by the Association of American Medical Colleges to assess professionalism, communication, and interpersonal skills of residency applicants. How SVI scores compare with other measures of these competencies is unknown. The goal of this study was to determine whether there is a correlation between the SVI score and both faculty and patient ratings of these competencies in emergency medicine (EM) applicants.

Year-to-year trends in emergency medicine morbidity and mortality cases.

Background: Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) rounds are peer review conferences during which cases with adverse outcomes and difficult management decisions are presented. Their primary objective is to learn from complications and errors, modify behavior and judgment based on previous experiences, and prevent repetition of errors leading to complications. The objective of this study was to determine if M&M conferences can reduce repetitive error making demonstrated by a shift of the incidence of cases presented at M&M by chief complaint (CC) and experience of attendings.

Assessing utility and completeness of information transmission during emergency department transfers.

Background: The transfer of patients from community emergency departments to tertiary care centers is a daily occurrence in the practice of emergency medicine, but the completeness of medical data in the transfer documentation is a relatively unstudied area. The goal of this study was to evaluate the completeness of information transmitted in the transfer documentation between transferring and accepting institutions and its perceived value at the receiving tertiary center on medical management.

Methods: Prospective, observational, and convenience sample survey study at a tertiary referral center in Boston, MA.

Diagnostic error, quality assurance, and medical malpractice/risk management education in emergency medicine residency training programs.

Background Diagnostic errors in emergency medicine (EM) can lead to patient harm as well as potential malpractice claims and quality assurance (QA) reviews. It is therefore essential that these topics are part of the core education of trainees. The methods training programs use to educate residents on these topics are unknown.

Fourth-year medical students do not perform a focused physical examination during a case-based simulation scenario.

Background: The art of physical examination is one of the most valuable diagnostic tools bestowed upon new generations of medical students. Despite traditional educational techniques and significant attention on a national level, both trainees and educators have noticed a decrease in physical examination proficiency. Simulation has been identified as a potential way to improve physical examination techniques within undergraduate medical education.

Steroid-Induced Psychosis after EUS-Guided Celiac Plexus Blockade.

A 46-year-old female with no previous personal or family psychiatric history underwent endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided celiac plexus blockade (CPB) to treat pain related to cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator-associated chronic pancreatitis. She had excellent response to her first three CPBs using bupivacaine and triamcinolone. The patient's subsequent CPBs were complicated by symptoms of racing thoughts, delusional thinking, and insomnia.

Successful endoscopic resection of adenocarcinoma arising in an esophageal inlet patch.

An esophageal inlet patch is an area of heterotopic gastric mucosa in the upper esophagus. Most are asymptomatic and found incidentally. There are only 43 case reports of adenocarcinoma arising in an inlet patch, and the majority of these underwent surgical resection.

Endoscopic ultrasound and fine needle aspiration in pancreatic cancer.

Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer mortality for both men and women in the United States. Overall 5-year survival from time of diagnosis is less than 5%. The only meaningful chance for cure results from early detection while the tumor remains resectable without locoregional extension or metastasis.

Factors associated with esophageal stricture formation after endoscopic mucosal resection for neoplastic Barrett's esophagus.

Background: EMR for early neoplastic Barrett's esophagus is gaining favor over esophagectomy. Esophageal stricture development has been reported as a common complication of EMR, photodynamic therapy, and combination endoscopic therapy.

Objective: To determine clinical and procedural predictors of symptomatic stricture formation after EMR.

Endoscopic findings and clinical outcomes in ventricular assist device recipients with gastrointestinal bleeding.

Background: Gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) is an important clinical problem in recipients of ventricular assist devices (VAD), although data pertaining to the endoscopic evaluation and management of this complication are limited in the medical literature.

Aims: We sought to identify the most common endoscopic findings in VAD recipients with GIB, and to better define the diagnostic and therapeutic utility of endosopy for this patient population.

Methods: Twenty-six subjects with VAD and overt GIB were retrospectively identified.