6 results match your criteria: "Department of Emergency Medicine Duke University Durham North Carolina USA.[Affiliation]"

Didactics are the primary modality in which educators disseminate knowledge. The accompanying slides are a critical element, which can enhance or distract from the corresponding presentation. This Educator's Blueprint provides 10 strategies for creating high-quality presentation slides.

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Background: Assessment of medical students in the clinical learning environment is fraught with challenges. Seemingly small variations in clinical clerkship evaluation can significantly impact a student's future. As such, the integrity of the grade selection process must be heavily scrutinized.

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Utility of COVID-19 antigen testing in the emergency department.

J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open

February 2022

TriCore Reference Laboratories Albuquerque New Mexico USA.

Background: The BinaxNOW coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Ag Card test (Abbott Diagnostics Scarborough, Inc.) is a lateral flow immunochromatographic point-of-care test for the qualitative detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) nucleocapsid protein antigen. It provides results from nasal swabs in 15 minutes.

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  • Burnout is when people feel really tired and stressed from their jobs, and doctors, especially in emergency medicine, experience it more than others.
  • It affects doctors' lives and can lead to mistakes that might harm patients, but working in academic medicine seems to help reduce burnout.
  • This paper looks into what helps doctors feel better at work and suggests that hospitals should create programs to support doctors and keep them happy and healthy.
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