9am - M&M - Dr. Jasmine Koita
10am - How the ED Physician Thinks - Dr. Reuben Strayer
11am - Research Lecture Series - Dr. Lynne Richardson
1130am - US Case of the Month - Dr. Dena Asaad
12pm - EM1s - HAZMAT and Disaster Training
12pm - EM3s/4s -Advanced Teaching Techniques

9am - Introductions, Responsibilities and more - Dr. Peter Shearer et al

11am - Trauma Conference - Dr. Scott Weingart

12pm - M&M - Dr. Edwin Wu

Second years don’t forget your introduction to the cardiac room starts at 1pm following M&M

 Lunch will be served. 

- From my recent airway elective, I’ve posted some videos of intubations using various devices — navigate over to this folder (all residents should remember the journal club password by now) and peruse the videos of direct visualization, the hilarious Pentax AWS demo, and more. There’s also a folder marked LMA, full of videos and tips for placing, well, LMA’s. These videos should all be playable on quicktime and can be downloaded to your iPods, though a few are pretty huge.

- Not only are MP3s available of Dr. Joe Lex’s recent lectures under the ‘conference’ tab — he has made the slides for his talks on asphyxiation and radiographic contrast available as well. And if that’s not enough for you, he wanted you to have free access to many more MP3’s — just peruse the list in this folder to see talks he and his fellow speakers gave at a recent European conference.

- The long writeup of my journal club, on other approaches to common ED pain complaints, is now available. Your comments, as always, are welcome.

 9am - Angioedema Controversies and Treatment: Dr. Paula Busse

10am - Critical Care Lecture Series: Dr. Amish Shah

11am - Navigating NYCLIX and Advanced IBEX: Dr. Jason Shapiro

12pm - Joint EM/IM Lecture on Hyponatremia: Dr. Seth Trueger

8am Dr. Lynda Schoenstein - Joint Cardiology Conference

9am Dr. Sigrid Hahn - Ethics and Entertainment

10am Dr. David Kessler - Pediatric EM Ultrasound

11am Dr. Daniel Lugassy - Salicylate Toxicity

12pm Dr. Maria O’Rourke - US Cases of the Year

Lunch will be served. 

9:00am Grand Rounds: Health Informatics - Dr. Jacob Reider 

10:00am  Senior Lecture: Dr. Michael Tafoya

11:00am Simulation Session: Dr. Christopher Strother

12:00pm  Pediatric Metabolic Emergencies: Dr. Jessica Cohen-Pfeffer

1:00pm  Pediatric Core Lecture: Dr. Erika Vazquez  

  Lunch will be served.   

9am Journal Club - Dr. James Hinchey     

10am Research Lecture Series — Dr. Corita Grudzen

10:30am Advanced ECG’s — Dr. Alex Kamenetsky

11:30am Trauma Conference — Dr. Xun Zhong

12pm M&M — Dr. Ashish Kumar

1pm Grand Rounds: ED Near Misses - Dr. Colin Greineder

Lunch will be served.

Residents: The following journal club articles are accessible by entering the usual login and password. Once again we are breaking up assigned papers by class — you should be familiar with all the papers, but be prepared to answer questions about your class’ paper:

EM-1: Irvin et al. Survey of Hospital Healthcare Personnel Response during a Potential Avian Influenza Pandemic: Will They Come to Work? Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 200 Aug 27; 23(4):328-335. PMID: 18935947. Abstract. Paper.     

EM-2: Mackler et al. Will First Responders Show Up for Work During a Pandemic? Lessons from a Smallpox Vaccination Survey of Paramedics. DMR. 2007 Apr-Jun:45-48. PMID: 17517362. Abstract. Paper.

EM-3: Boivin et al. Predicting Influenza Infections during Epidemics with Use of a Clinical Case Definition. CID. 2000;71:1166-69. PMID: 11073747. Abstract. Paper.     

EM-4: Ward et al. Oseltamivir and its potential for use in the event of an Influenza Pandemic. JAC. 2005 Feb; 55(Suppl) S5 i5-i21. PMID: 15709056. Abstract. Paper.

Our featured speaker is Dr. Baruch Krauss of Boston Children’s Hospital, who will be speaking for two hours as well as discussing the finer points of capnography with our group.

We will also be featuring lectures from Orthopedist Dr. Alexis Colvin, a Joint Neurology stroke conference with Dr. Lisa Patrick, and Dr. Dan Fawaz’s presentation of M+M.

9am Visiting Lecture: The ED Knee Exam — Dr. Alexis Colvin
10am Grand Rounds: Pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic management of pediatric pain and anxiety — Dr. Baruch Krauss
12pm Joint EM/Neurology Conference
1pm M&M

Lunch will be served and some breakfast amenities will be provided.

Please join us for food, drinks, and stimulating discussion. Dr. Richardson will kick off the event with some opening remarks. Then, each senior will talk about their projects for 10 minutes, followed by a period for audience questions.

We’ll break for dinner at around 7 PM and move through the second half of the class.

The order of speakers is below… (more…)

The day’s activities are planned as follows:

9am Global Health Series: The Liberia Experience — Drs. Braden Hexom and Daniel Fawaz
10am Toxicology Lecture Series: Pediatric Tox Emergengies — Dr. Ruben Olmedo
11am Critical Care Lecture Series — Dr. Scott Weingart
12pm Core Lecture: Metabolic Emergencies — Dr. Livia Santiago

Lunch will be served.

Our featured speaker is Dr. Joe Lex of Temple University, who will be speaking on strangulation injuries and use of contrast with imaging.  We will also be featuring Raghu Seethala’s senior lecture on ophthalmologic emergency management. The full schedule is below:

9am     Grand Rounds — Dr. Joe Lex
11am    Senior Lecture — Dr. Raghu Seethala
12pm   Peds Core: Constipation & Diarrhea — Dr. Matt Laurich
1pm     Peds M&M — Dr. Jasmine Koita

Lunch will be served.

8am Joint EM / Cardiology Conference — Dr. Shefali Trivedi
9am Journal Club — Dr. Ram Parekh (see article below)
10am Research Lecture Series — Dr. Alex Manini
10:30am Potpourri — Drs. Lakoff and Holland
11am Trauma Conference — Dr. Scott Weingart (see link below)
12pm M&M — Dr. Kanika Gupta

We’ll also be featuring Amanda Holland’s CPC presentation and Daniel Lakoff’s surprising, disturbing ultrasound images.

Lunch will be served. Please note the early start time.

Residents: The following journal club article is accessible by entering the login and password from my email.

Hollander, J.E., et al. Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography for Rapid Discharge of Low-Risk Patients With Potential Acute Coronary Syndromes. Annals of Emergency Medicine. March 2009 (Vol. 53, Issue 3, Pages 295-304). Abstract.

Ram has not asked for a background reading requirement. However, enterprising residents might consider reviewing Hollander’s previous research in this field, or the last time we discussed coronary CT scans in journal club.

Dr. Weingart’s background reading for trauma conference is also available online using the same login and password.

Registration starts at 8 AM. Sim Wars will begin at 1 PM! See you there.

Our featured speaker is Dr. Stephen Cantrill of Denver Health Medical Center. We will also be featuring Jessica Berrios’ Senior Lecture and a variety of favors of M+M.

9am M&M — Dr. Mieka Close
10am Peds M&M — Dr. Suzanne Bentley
11am Peds Core: Dysuria — Dr. Chris Strother
12pm Disaster Lecture Series: Altered Standards of Care in Times of Extreme Need — Dr. Stephen Cantrill
1pm Senior Lecture — Dr. Jessica Berrios

Lunch will be served.

I’ve emailed you the prelim schedule and some prep materials, but have also put a review up on this website, behind the familiar login and password.

There’s also a journal article (Platts-Mills et al, Annals of EM 47:3 2006) you may be interested in, on how the Oral Board exam has evolved, how its cost compares to other specialties, and how the test is administered and graded.

Watch for the final version of the schedule to be sent to your inboxes on Monday.