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 Some announcements:

– Jennifer has posted a nice summary of Braden’s recent journal club on MRSA abscess management. Check it out! And leave some comments.

– The NYC Marathon is 11/2 and Dr. Montagna is organizing our participation. Our location is still TBA, and location dictates your time commitment… but you can be sure that a free T-Shirt is involved. Also a poncho. There’s semi-mandatory prep meetings on 10/27 or 10/28 but if you’re at ACEP you might be ok. More info in her email.

– Don’t forget our high school football sideline doc opportunities. This program pays well and gets you some good experience. The schedule’s online — but email me and I’ll put you in touch with the Ortho residents organizing it.

– If you haven’t been back to Elmhurst in a while, please review the new policies.

– Seniors: another leadership seminar is planned, this time with Dr. Gail D’Onofrio, on Tuesday evening, 10/7. Location TBA but likely a restaurant.

If you’ve got more announcements to share, let me know.

Please join us for Emergency Medicine Department Conference on Wednesday, September 24th at 9AM in Mount Sinai’s Hatch Auditorium.

Our featured speaker is Sinai EM grad and noted HIV researcher, Dr. Roland Clay Merchant. We’ll also have a joint conference with ID and the chair of Medicine, Dr. Paul Klotman, will speak on challenges facing his department.

9am Grand Rounds - Dr. Roland Clay Merchant
10am Visiting Chair Lecture Series — Dr. Paul Klotman
10:30am ED Stroke Education: Dr. Yvonne Chan
11am ID in the ED: Infection Control at Sinai
12pm Peds Core: Shock — Dr. Chris Strother
1pm Peds M&M — Dr. Schoenstein

Lunch will be served and breakfast amenities will be provided.

Please join us this week for Emergency Medicine Departmental Conference, in the 8th floor conference room at Elmhurst Hospital.

The day’s activities are planned as follows:

9am Toxicology Lecture Series: Crystal Meth — Dr. Amish Shah
10am Journal Club — Dr. Hexom
11am Thermal Emergencies: Dr. Scot Hill
12pm Disaster Lecture Series: Perspectives from War — Dr. Maria O’Rourke

Lunch will be served.

Residents: Journal club articles are available.

On Wednesday 9/17 we’ll have our second Journal Club of the year, presented by Braden Hexom.

We are asking residents to access the following journal club articles by entering the login and password from my email:

Primary discussion: Rajendran et al. Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Cephalexin for Treatment of Uncomplicated Skin Abscesses in a Population at Risk for Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Nov. 2007, p. 4044–4048. PMID: 17846141

Clinical background:  Frazee et al. High Prevalence of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Emergency Department Skin and Soft Tissue Infections. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2005. Volume 45, no. 3. PMID: 15726056

Clinical background: Rajendran et al. Antibiotic Use in the Treatment of Soft Tissue Abscesses: A Survey of Current Practice. Surgical Infections 2007 Volume 8, p 237-238. PMID: 17437370

Please join us for Emergency Medicine Department Conference on Wednesday, September 10th at 8AM at Mount Sinai. Conference will begin in conference room GP-2B, next to Hatch, before moving to Hatch Auditorium at 9 AM.

Our featured speaker is Dr. Lewis Goldfrank, Chair of EM at NYU/Bellevue and Director of NYC Poison Control. There will also be a joint EM / IM lecture featuring Vascular Surgery chief Dr. Peter Faries.

8am Grand Rounds — Dr. Lewis Goldfrank: Alcohol Withdrawal (room GP-2B).
9am Senior Lecture — Dr. Nick Genes: Procedural Sedation
10am Residency Update — Dr. Peter Shearer
11am Simulation Session — Drs. Haru Okuda, Chris Strother, and Bing Shen
12pm EM/IM Joint Conference: Vascular Emergencies — Dr. Peter Faries

Please note the early start time and initial location of conference.

Breakfast will be provided at 7:30. Lunch will be served at noon.

Please join Drs. Peter Shearer, Stuart Kessler, Chris Langan, and more invited faculty and clinical directors from emergency departments across the city, as we learn about the job search process.

Location: Conference Room GP-2C (near Hatch)
Time: Tuesday, 9/9 from 7-10 PM

Bring copies of your CV. Food will be provided.

A special thank you to Evelyn Chow for arranging this evening.

Please join us this week for Emergency Medicine Departmental Conference, in the 8th floor conference room at Elmhurst Hospital.

The day’s activities are planned as follows:

9am Core Lecture: Thermal Emergencies - Dr. Scot Hill
10am Research Lecture Series
11am Core Lecture: Derm Emergencies — Dr. Thomas Nguyen
12pm M&M — Dr. Koita
1pm Ultrasound Case of the Month — Dr. Maria O’Rourke
1:30pm EZ-IO inservice

Lunch will be served.

The residency is sponsoring a happy hour this coming Tuesday at the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden in Astoria . For those of you who aren’t familiar, this place is a NYC landmark because it has the last original beer garden in all of NYC and was voted best outdoor bar by New York Citysearch (in 2005 — but it’s still highly ranked). It’s just a couple minutes walk from the N train. All residents, faculty and med students rotating in the ED this month are invited.

Date: Tuesday, August 26
Time: 7:00PM
Location: 29-19 24th Ave, Astoria
Directions by subway: Take the N to Astoria Blvd. (one stop before the last - Ditmars Blvd.). Walk 1 block to the intersection of 24th Avenue and 31st Street. The beer garden is located between 29th Street and 31st Street.

Dr. Wang adds: During the summers they have an outdoor grill - grilling up all sorts of sausages and stuff that would be expected at a German joint. Only a handful of beers on tap, but very much in the traditional German Pilsner style.

Please join us for Emergency Medicine Department Conference on Wednesday, August 27th at 9AM in Mount Sinai’s Hatch Auditorium.

The day’s planned events are as follows:

9 am Administrative Series: Performance Benchmarking - Dr. Scot Hill
10 am M&M — Dr. Lisa Jacobson
11 am Peds M&M — Dr. Yoon
12 pm Peds Core: Trauma — Dr. Lori Montagna
1 pm Core Lecture: Wound Management — Dr. John Bruns

Lunch will be served.

Residents: Dr. Bruns has suggested this March 2005 article from the EM Practice journal as a good background for his talk.  It’s accessible by entering the login and password from my email.