Overview The Emergency Department. It can be one of the most stressful rotations for an intern as well as one of the most beneficial for their education. Emergency Departments (EDs) often have structured education programmes tailored to learning objectives for emergency medicine.  This is in addition to hospital based provocation training programmes.  The additional educational … More What do interns want to learn in their emergency rotations?

Cognition in Emergency Medicine Why is this topic important? Medicine is delivered by ‘humans’ to ‘humans’ Inevitably this is an error prone interaction Tendency toward error is amplified by time pressures as well as high levels of emotional and physical stress We have a lack of education on how to ‘think about thinking‘ ACEM 2015 – Emergency Physicians need … More Fast Thinking in Emergency Medicine

PRINT Conference 2015 We are excited to be contributing the PRINT conference in Sydney this week.. My Presentation: SLIDES: Emergency Radiology with Quiz PREVIEW OF TALK: Other Resources: CXR Library – Click Here CXR (LITFL DRABCDE) – Click Here

A Case Study You are on a late shift in the Emergency Department (ED).  A 28 year old normally well female presents with shortness of breath and wheezing on the background of a recent viral upper respiratory tract infection.  She is a current smoker and has a history of childhood asthma. The patient has audible wheeze … More Spirometry Demystified

Network 5 – FEAST Day The next Emergency Medicine Network 5 event will be on the 28th of October at Westmead Hospital.  We look forward to seeing you there. The theme for the days education will be “trauma”.  Here are the flyers and official program: FEAST Day Program FEAST Poster 28th October 2015 FEAST Day … More Emergency Medicine Eduction Day – ‘FEAST’ – 28th October