by emottawa | Jun 9, 2017 | Commentary
What is Quality Improvement (QI)? You have all heard the latest buzzword in healthcare: “quality improvement”, or QI. Yet many healthcare professionals still only have a vague idea of what that truly means, and likely an even poorer understanding of how it might apply...
by emottawa | Feb 13, 2017 | Commentary
This is a summary of a talk given by Drs. Krishan Yadav and Maggie Kisilewicz at the National Capital Conference in Emergency Medicine. Below are brief summaries and a bottom line, but of course you’ll have to read the literature yourself to make your own...
by emottawa | Nov 10, 2016 | Commentary
Did we get your attention? Good! This is one of the areas in Acute and Critical Care Medicine which is highly controversial. This post is a desire to explore the topic after this very interesting article below came out. I hope to get some feedback but please keep it...
by emottawa | Sep 6, 2016 | Commentary
Courtesy of klik internet This is a post summarizing our best-rated JC articles and the ones I find are the most useful from the past academic year. Each of the articles is broken down into one to two lines as to how I have incorporated them in my practice. For a...
by Hans Rosenberg | Sep 5, 2016 | Commentary, Infographics
Our wonderful medical students are preparing to start their first clinical rotations. With this in mind here are some of the top tips for success in your EM rotation 1) Be On Time – show up to your shifts on time, better yet 5 minutes early. That first impression...
by EMOttawa | Jul 6, 2016 | Commentary, Infographics
Syncope is an commonly encountered problem in Emergency Medicine, with the potential for significant morbidity and mortality to patients. Unfortunately, to date, there have not been any reliable decision tools or instruments to help us in our assessment of the syncope...
by EMOttawa | Jun 27, 2016 | Commentary
After more than a decade of undergraduate and postgraduate education, your time as residents is over! Your “watch has ended” and you are about to become THE most responsible physician for all your patients. Before absolute panic sets in here are some tips...
by EMOttawa | Jun 23, 2016 | Commentary, Grand Round Summaries
Free open access medical education or “FOAMed”, is a term often confused as a catchall phrase for blogs, podcasts and social media on medical topics. While these are all platforms through which FOAMed can be disseminated, it actually encompasses the spirit and...
by EMOttawa | Jul 14, 2015 | Commentary
As part of our Journal Club summaries our JC Chairs (Drs. Lisa Calder and Ian Stiell @EMO_Daddy) have been tasked with explaining Epidemiological concepts so that everyone in our department can analyze the literature and appraise articles on their own. For this Blog...
by EMOttawa | Jul 7, 2015 | Commentary
As part of our Journal Club summaries our JC Chairs (Drs. Lisa Calder and Ian Stiell @EMO_Daddy) have been tasked with explaining Epidemiological concepts so that everyone in our department can analyze the literature and appraise articles on their own. For this Blog...
