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Re-Engineering Flow in an Academic Emergency Department

ACEP Now

The emergency department (ED) at UVA was rebuilt in 2019 and the department had not fully optimized its operations when COVID-19 hit. The hospital leadership, medical-school leadership, and ED faculty and staff partnered to engage in a radical re-engineering project they aptly named Excellence Driven.

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Journal Club - Emergency Department Initiated Buprenorphine for Opioid Use Disorder

Downeast Emergency Medicine

While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to overdose deaths and taxed constrained Emergency Department (ED) resources, it has also clarified the important role that emergency physicians have in expanding access to life-saving medications to treat opioid use disorder. Annals of Emergency Medicine. Hawk, et al.

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178 Exploring barriers and enablers to simulation based training in emergency departments: an international qualitative study (BEST-ED study)

Emergency Medicine Journal

However, identifying barriers and enablers when establishing successful SBT programmes in busy Emergency Departments (ED’s), and ensuring longevity of such programs, can be difficult.[MJ1] The central themes in terms of barriers and enablers were local culture, leadership, individual needs, resources and optimisation.

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2024 ACEP Elections Preview: Meet the Board of Directors Candidates

ACEP Now

In addition to outreach, we must further develop chapter-level engagement opportunities for residents and newly graduated attendings, providing a sense of belonging to our new members, and a leadership pipeline for the chapters’ future. As a community “pit doctor,” I believe I have a good understanding of the needs of emergency physicians.

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Interhospital Transfer Capabilities Still Pose Major Issues

ACEP Now

1 As fresh challenges of the pandemic and hospital operations changed emergency medicine practice, one of the more challenging areas was the movement of admitted patients out of the first emergency department (ED). emergency departments. Another COVID casualty: The emergency department transfer process.

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SGEM#352: Amendment – Addressing Gender Inequities in Academic Emergency Medicine

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Justin Morgenstern is an emergency physician and the creator of the #FOAMed project called First10EM.com Case: At the completion of her 1-month elective in your rural emergency department […] The post SGEM#352: Amendment – Addressing Gender Inequities in Academic Emergency Medicine first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine.

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Meet the Emergency Physicians Running for Congress

ACEP Now

ACEP Now: Dr. Aisha Terry, has focused on the pipeline of leadership for the College this year. There’s no hard line for how many hours you should be measured on in terms of boarding or in terms of how long you’re in the emergency department. OTHER EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN CANDIDATES Click to enlarge.