Editor’s note: This is a series based on work done by three physicians (Patrick Archambault, Tim Chaplin, and our BoringEM Managing editor Teresa Chan) for the Canadian National Review Course (NRC). You can read a description of this course here. The NRC brings EM residents from across the Canada together in their final year for a crash course on everything emergency medicine. Since we are a specialty with heavy allegiance to the tenets of Evidence-Based Medicine, we thought we would serially release the biggest, …
Behind the Scenes: doing research at a distance
Editor’s note: In this article Eve Purdy discusses lessons learned while performing, writing and publishing research with a team spread across the country. The final product “The use of free educational resources by Canadian emergency medicine residents and program directors” was published in CJEM in March 2015. Of note, she (and some of here colleagues) will be available to answer questions via the new CJEM Facebook page in the coming weeks! – TC …
KT Evidence Bite: Fibrinolysis in Intermediate PE
Editor’s note: This is a series based on work done by three physicians (Patrick Archambault, Tim Chaplin, and our BoringEM Managing editor Teresa Chan) for the Canadian National Review Course (NRC). You can read a description of this course here. The NRC brings EM residents from across the Canada together in their final year for a crash course on everything emergency medicine. Since we are a specialty with heavy allegiance to the tenets of Evidence-Based Medicine, we thought we would serially release the biggest, …
KT Evidence Bite: Rapid blood pressure lowering in intracerebral hemorrhage
Editor’s note: This is a series based on work done by three physicians (Patrick Archambault, Tim Chaplin, and our BoringEM Managing editor Teresa Chan) for the Canadian National Review Course (NRC). You can read a description of this course here. The NRC brings EM residents from across the Canada together in their final year for a crash course on everything emergency medicine. Since we are a specialty with heavy allegiance to the tenets of Evidence-Based Medicine, we thought we would serially release the biggest, …
BoringEM Research Week | Skimming the top off Research/ClinEpi FOAM
Editor’s note: This is the final post of BoringEM’s research week. We hope that you have enjoyed all of the research-related material. To end the series on a high note, this post will direct you towards a couple of phenomenal research resources that are, of course, FREE! More than anything we hope that you will comment below with your best resources so that we might start to compile what is available! Thanks to Swapnil (@hswapnil) …
Medical Student Research: Tips from Rising Stars
Editor’s note: This is the second post in the BoringEM Research Week series. We had the fortune of hearing from three star medical students who are actively involved in research while also fulfilling the requirements medical school. Needless to say they have some great tips for how to succeed in medical student research. – EP Daneilla Dmitri and Alvin Chin’s Tips for Finding and Finishing the Right Project From experience Daneilla (@D_Dimitri88) knows all about …