An insider ’s guide to a hospital stay
Hopefully, you’ll never experience what it’s like to be an inpatient in the hospital. But even if it’s not you, it’s likely that someone — family member, good friend, colleague — will experience a hospital stay at some point. We want you to help you be as informed (and comfortable) as possible.
The emergency room
Although people sometimes use the emergency room for a routine doctor visit, it’s really a place for… emergencies. If you need to go to an emergency room, you’ll first be “triaged.” That means that based on your symptoms or type of injury, you will be assigned to a status that will determ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 18, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christopher Bullock, MD Tags: Health Managing your health care Source Type: blogs
Job: Assistant Professor of Mycology, Oregon State University
The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology invites applications for a full-time (1.0 FTE) 9-month, tenure-track position as Assistant Professor.
The successful candidate will be expected to establish an innovative and competitive research program that pursues scholarly work in the area of fungal biology / mycology. The area of research specialization is open and includes ecology, evolution, genetics and genomics of fungi.. The successful candidate will serve as Curator of the OSU Mycological Herbarium, and will teach Mycology in the Botany and Plant Pathology program and one course in Biological Data Sciences, an unde...
Source: Fungal Genomes and Comparative Genomics - July 16, 2018 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Jason Stajich Tags: jobs faculty mycology oregon state Source Type: blogs
“Ask Me About My Awesome Job at NIH”
What happens to former students involved in the Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth? Sometimes, they work at the National Institutes of Health and NLM. That’s what happened to Adam Korengold and several NLM interns. On June 25, they joined about a dozen other NIH employees wearing “Ask Me About My Awesome Job at… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - July 11, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Events Source Type: blogs
3 steps for doctors to move into the next level of career growth
In medicine, this is the time when one season ends, and another begins. New doctors graduate medical school. They are excited and, at the same time scared, as they enter into residency training. Interns become residents. Senior residents celebrate moving into attending positions or look forward to subspecialty training in fellowship programs. It’s the excitement of completion combined with the uncertainty of charting a new course in medicine. Each new level in your medical career presents the opportunity for personal growth.
There is the opportunity to learn more about how to balance life with the demands of patient care...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 10, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/stephanie-wellington" rel="tag" > Stephanie Wellington, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Practice Management Source Type: blogs
What I wish my family had known about medical residency
I sometimes get messages from people who have lost physician colleagues and loved ones to suicide. It’s the specifics of these stories that wound me: a note left for an unexpected person; an insignificant fight at sign-out that in retrospect is full of meaning; the white coat that a woman wore when she jumped to her death. Each of these lives is complex, and each of these deaths defies easy answers. But universally, those left behind ask me: why weren’t they warned that this could happen?
I gave a speech recently at the Committee of Interns and Residents’ national convention. They have done great work fighting for tr...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 9, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/elisabeth-poorman" rel="tag" > Elisabeth Poorman, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Psychiatry Residency Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 243
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 243
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Question 1
[real case] – A 12 year old boy is brought in by his mother with concerns about fatigue, increasing shortness of breath on exertion, easily bruising, swollen gums and ?...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 5, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mark Corden Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Chang Bunker Darier sign Elizabeth Blackwell Eng Bunker leonardo da vinci macrocytosis Neymar Of the heart scurvy Siamese twins vitamin C Source Type: blogs
Teaching new interns and students – stress the basics
I have had the “pleasure” of an interesting attending stretch – June 10 – July 9. The new interns started Sunday June 24th. New 3rd year students started the next day.
The attending job changed dramatically in one day. The June interns were ready for residency. All the conversations occurred at a very high level. We worked on some fine points of internal medicine to help them grow.
With new interns and students, it is back to basics. We must assume very little, but we do have their attention.
So for the past 2 weeks we have stressed the basics.
How do we manage pancreatitis?
What is th...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - July 5, 2018 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
How can attending physicians promote wellness?
As a ward attending physician, I have some influence over learners’ lives. During my time with them, I can impact their daily activities, but I can also serve as a role model of wellness.
Step #1 – run efficient rounds. The time we spend on rounds can have a negative impact on a resident’s ability to leave on time. Develop time constraints for rounds. Recognize when a consult, or order has a high priority – and give the intern or resident time during rounds to get that work done.
Step #2 – maximize their control. Total lack of control negatively impacts wellness. Do not micromanage...
Source: DB's Medical Rants - July 3, 2018 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: rcentor Tags: Medical Rants Source Type: blogs
Stay Out of my Wellness
By VA WEST HAVEN COE CLINIC
On a sunny New England morning at a secluded guest house with a perfectly manicured lawn, medical residents, each with their own brightly colored yoga mat, were getting ready to assume the downward dog position. They were on an annual retreat organized by their residency program to promote wellness. One embraced the opportunity with delight, smiling through every pose. Another grimaced as his back spasmed. And yet another wandered off towards a lake to find his own kind of respite.
Physician wellness has become something of a buzzword in recent years, and rightfully so considering that the r...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 2, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Physicians physician suicide physician wellness Residency Source Type: blogs
LITFL Review 338
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Welcome to the 338th LITFL Review! Your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peeks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the blogosphere’s best and brightest and deliver a bite-sized chunk of FOAM.
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The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beauts of the Week
Josh Farkas rev...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - July 1, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Marjorie Lazoff, MD Tags: Education LITFL review Source Type: blogs
How the Work Environment Plays a Role in My Mental Health
Over the course of my 20’s (and I’m still in them), I’ve experimented with various work environments. First there were the post-graduate internships in the city — the standard office scene (though one office exuded a slight ‘hipster’ vibe, where employees trailed in from Brooklyn on their bikes). And then I focused on freelance writing, which I did relish in for a while there; I liked the freedom to be able to take my laptop wherever I wished, or the flexible schedule where I could take short walking breaks outside if need be.
However, since steady income from writing was hard to come by, I searched for ot...
Source: World of Psychology - June 27, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lauren Suval Tags: Industrial and Workplace Motivation and Inspiration Personal attention Boredom down time Mental health and workplace Source Type: blogs
Welcome to your intern year breakdown
Summer is upon us, and with it comes the end of the academic year, graduations and the arrival of the newest crop of interns. Soon these fresh-faced physicians will enter into one of the most remarkable educational experiences of their medical careers: residency. Many of these soon-to-be-interns are looking to attendings now for advice on how to excel during (or survive through) the arduous first year of training. Suggestions like “always make time to read,” “ask for help when you need it,” and “don’t piss off the nurses” are evergreen. An untold number of similar pearls were passe...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 21, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/diana-cejas" rel="tag" > Diana Cejas, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Hospital-Based Medicine Psychiatry Residency Source Type: blogs
You Diagnose Pericarditis at your Peril (at the Patient's Peril!)
The source of this case is anonymous.A 40 something woman with a history of hyperlipidemia and additional risk factors including a smoking history presented with substernal chest pain radiating to " both axilla " as well as the upper back. She was reportedly " pacing in her room while holding her chest " .The initial tracing (EKG 1) was obtained.Clinician and EKG machine read of acute pericarditis.What do you think?There is sinus rhythm. There is diffuse ST elevation in II, III, aVF and V3-V6. One might agree with the computer and the clinician because there is inferolateral ST elevation without any recip...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - June 20, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
How to be The Shop Floor Clinician
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Once in a while we don’t have to be Epic. We can be a plain worker bee, low ranking, mission brown, a serf. We are permitted to hitch up our strides like peasants, and get on with the business of hoeing through the garden of the unwell.
Such freedom, you say. None of the high-level responsibility of being in charge of the department. No duty phone. No behaving like an epileptic desperado when asked to go to a flow meeting. Just good, honest toil.
I’ve been doing this jo...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 16, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michelle Johnston Tags: Literary Medicine How to be Shop Floor Shop Floor Clinician Source Type: blogs
