Administration Fellow @Yale_EM | MBA for Executives ‘25 @YaleSOM | Patient Quality & Safety, Physician Wellbeing, Health Innovation | Past @SAEM_RAMS President
From trends in observation, staffing, transfers, and discharge to geriatrics and substance use—Yale EM faculty, fellows, and medical students delivered 14 rapid-fire lightning oral presentations during the afternoon session! #SAEM#NERDS25
Thursday at #SAEM24 was PACKED with didactics, panels, awards, and discussion. So much fantastic work being done in #EmergencyMedicine, and there still is one more day to go!
Join APAMSA on Saturday, April 20 at 2-4 PM ET for our Emergency Medicine Bootcamp! Learn about resources for EM, how to approach high-yield cases like chest pain and headache, and talk with our speakers, from EM interns to a fellow! Register now at bit.ly/43ofIKD.
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There is considerable confusion in terms used to describe #troponin, including terms that are imprecise (e.g., “troponin leak”) or deprecated (e.g., “type 2 NSTEMI”) (Lang, 2022). What's the difference between 🫀myocardial injury, ischemia, & infarction❓ 🧐 #MedEd🧵
“I don't want to be the squeaky wheel”: Addressing bias as a leader in emergency medicine
Fellows @WSunMD & @davidhyang et al. use an arts-based workshop to foster an open dialogue around implicit bias in EM.
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📢An important piece addressing implicit bias in @AcademicEmerMed led by @BrownEMRes's @suri_ambuj - there exists pervasive susceptibility to bias, key barriers (e.g. institutional) encountered when addressing bias, and opportunities for interventions
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Out today in @Health_Affairs:
If you have a child that needs residential treatment for OUD, the average out-of-pocket cost for a month of treatment is $26,353.
Twenty-three states in the US have no residential treatment facility, or don't have one that accepts Medicaid.
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From #SAEMPulse: "There is a clear and unmet need for further investigation into the variables influencing the stability of the EM workforce, including the inflow and outflow of emergency clinicians" #EmergencyMedicine
Read more: ow.ly/oUGR50PKgbH
Congratulations to Yale Admin Fellow @WSunMD and PGY-2 @Voteforcece for winning the 2023 @ACEPNow HackED Hackathon! Solutions were judged by a panel of industry experts for feasibility/viability, impact, and progress. #ACEP23
Thank you @TheEMFoundation for supporting the “transcreation” of our decision tool for surrogate decision makers of comatose survivors of cardiac arrest into Spanish. Ensuring that decision aids are linguistically correct and culturally acceptable is a necessity! #ACEP23@Yale_EM
Kathryn Hawk, MD, presents “Nationwide Capabilities Assessment of Emergency Department Care of Patients With Opioid Use Disorder: 2022 to 2023” during the social determinants and diversity plenary session #ACEP23
Standing-room only at #ACEP23 on solutions to improve ED crowding and boarding with thought leaders and Chairs of @Yale_EM Dr. @arjunvenkatesh and UPenn Dr. Ben Sun.
“Unfilled in Emergency Medicine: An Analysis of Open 2022 and 2023 Match Positions by Program Accreditation, Ownership, and Geography” by Administration Fellow, Wendy Sun, MD #ACEP23