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AHA and Red Cross Life Support Certifications Should Both Be Accepted

ACEP Now

Initial Rollout America’s Military Health System (MHS) was the first major organization to adopt Red Cross ALS and PALS training. Initially, following an initial “beta test” with military medical students and faculty at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Md., This makes the material more relevant to health professionals.

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Can We Select “Better” Residents?

Sensible Medicine

First, their qualifications are spectacular: academic accolades, research, publications, clinical medicine experiences prior to residency, even real-life professional experiences. Two things are clear about the internal medicine residents I get to work with.

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Journal update

Emergency Medicine Journal

This month’s update is by the Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine and University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. We used a multimodal search strategy, drawing on free open-access medical education resources and literature searches.

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Three Ways for Emergency Medicine Docs to Practice Mindfulness

ACEP Now

He is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at MedStar Health and Georgetown University Hospital and assistant professor of military and emergency medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. A task analysis of emergency physician activities in academic and community settings. 2013;60(1):A4558.

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Stop the bloodshed!

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Having studied the avoidable causes of death, and finding the erstwhile fears of a prolonged tourniquet time in place to be no longer valid, the military has striven that each man has a tested and chosen tourniquet. Academic Emergency Medicine, 22(9), 1093-1095. Military medicine, 176(10), 1144-1152. Kragh Jr, J. O'Neill, M.

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Is it Time to Take Another Look at the State of Emergency Care in the U.S.? 

ACEP Now

Dr. Prescott, currently retired, was Chief Academic Officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges from 2008-2021 where he says he worked with “every single school of medicine in the U.S.,” Prior to WVU, Dr. Prescott served as a military emergency physician at Brooke Army Medical Center, TX and Fort Bragg/Fort Liberty, NC.

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Healthcare Leaders Should Focus on Making Medicine Better Rather than Issuing Press Releases on Geopolitical Issues

Sensible Medicine

The resulting Kalven Report affirmed that the role of the University was to assure the academic freedom of “faculty and students in the face of suppression from internal and/or external entities while also insisting on institutional neutrality on political and social issues.”