Yes you heard right. This course will prepare you for the Fellowship Written Examination. It is 6 months of virtual teaching which includes video lectures, podcasts, webinars, written notes, assignments and exams and is tailored to you. You get group and individual feedback. In the middle of those 6 months there is a 2 day [...] Read More »
Prasad. V., Rho J., Cifu A., A Metaphor for Medicine in the Evidence Based Medicine Era Achives Internal Med Vol 172 (no 12) June 25, 2012TG 9† In this article the Authors from Chicago discuss how the concept of PE has changed over the last 100 years. Originally PE was diagnosed clinically with minimal or [...] Read More »
How can you have an afebrile febrile convulsion? Well, it turns out you can. It occurs as convulsions in children with an acute infective illness and no fever. Usually the illness is a gastroenteritis. It denotes a more benign form of convulsion, similar to a classic febrile convulsion. A febrile convulsion is defined as a [...] Read More »
Can Bedside Ultrasound be a Tool in the Assessment and Management of Renal Colic? Bedside ultrasonography (BUS) has become a significant tool in the diagnostic repertoire of the emergency physician in recent years. Over the same period the use of, and potential risks of, CT imaging have come to the fore. Since the mid-1990s CT [...] Read More »
Have you ever wanted to order a test, especially a radiological one and after hours at that and were made to feel inept, for asking? It’s after 11pm, here’s the how the conversation goes: PK: “Hello Dr (fill in space) PK here, one of the ED consultants. Sorry to bother you, but I wanted to [...] Read More »
Have you ever had one of those cases where you thought, “I am so good, picking that”, even if you didn’t say it out loud. Or have you ever had one of those diagnoses where you thought ” I am so lucky”, it didn’t go, all ordinary on me. Well here is a recent case [...] Read More »
Here is a quick and cool way to make your own airway camera.Use it to demonstrate and teach the technique of intubation. It costs about $100 to put together, but can be as cheap as $50 to make. It’s amazingly effective! Part of its charm, I think, is that it looks like it’s been put [...] Read More »
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