FRCPC or CCFP-EM? (FRCPC = Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada; CCFP = Canadian College of Family Physicians – Emergency Medicine certificate.) This is a question that EM mentors spend a lot of time discussing with their mentees. Why are there two EM designations in Canada? What’s the difference? Which route is right for you? These are great questions. Unfortunately, as with many important decisions, you’ll probably get as …
CRACKCast E111 – Mood Disorders
View PostInfographic on the Proposed Canadian Tax Changes
Two weeks ago CanadiEM published a primer on the proposed tax changes and their potential impact on physicians who are incorporated. To make the content even more easy to digest and share, our infographic team has put together the above image to describe the changes in a more visual medium.
The Use of the Modified Valsalva Maneuver for Stable SVT
Please note that, while “supraventricular tachycardia (SVT)” is a term that can be used more broadly to refer to any tachyarrhythmia originating above the ventricles, I use its more conventional meaning here to describe AVnRT and AVRT. LITFL has a good summary of narrow-complex tachycardias. SVT is a narrow complex tachycardia commonly seen in the emergency department. In hemodynamically stable patients the first-line treatment is vagal stimulation, usually the Valsalva maneuver. However, success …
CRACKCast E110 – Thought Disorders
View PostCAEP FEI | Mini-curriculum in Management
Mitch is a fifth year resident who is excited by the prospect of entering practice. He has always wanted to play an important role in managing the emergency department and has aspirations of becoming a department head. Mitch recognizes that his career goals will require him to take up new responsibilities such as personnel management and policy development. He wonders if there is anything in the residency curriculum that will help him prepare for these …