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Expert en Médecine, Optimisation des Parcours de Soins et Révision Médicale
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17 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Médecine d'urgence" :
6 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Emergency Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California.
5 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Emergency Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
Publications dans "Médecine d'urgence" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Publications dans "Médecine d'urgence" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Publications dans "Médecine d'urgence" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Service des urgences, Département de médecine aiguë, Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève, 1211 Genève 14.
Publications dans "Médecine d'urgence" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Service des urgences, Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois, 1011 Lausanne.
Publications dans "Médecine d'urgence" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Service des urgences, Département de médecine aiguë, Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève, 1211 Genève 14.
Publications dans "Médecine d'urgence" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
From the Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, Bronx, New York.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
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Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
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Service des urgences, Département de médecine communautaire, de premier recours et des urgences, HUG, 1211 Genève 14.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
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SAUSHEC, Emergency Medicine, Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, TX, USA. Electronic address: Brit.long@yahoo.com.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Emergency Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, United States of America.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Service des urgences, Département des centres interdisciplinaires et logistique médicale, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Service des urgences, Département de médecine communautaire, de premier recours et des urgences, HUG, 1211 Genève 14.
Publications dans "Médecine d'urgence" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
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Service des urgences, Département de médecine communautaire, de premier recours et des urgences, HUG, 1211 Genève 14.
Publications dans "Médecine d'urgence" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
University of California, Irvine, California.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
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York Hospital, York, Pennsylvania.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
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Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Portsmouth, Virginia.
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2 publications dans cette catégorie
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Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Emergency physicians are in a unique position to impact both individual and population health needs. Despite this, emergency medicine (EM) residency training lacks formalized education n the social de...
A taskforce of EM clinician-educators with expertise in SEM developed a 4.5-hour educational curriculum for use during a single, half-day didactic session for EM residents. The curriculum consisted of...
A total of 35 residents and faculty attended the conference day, with 18 participants completing the immediate post-conference survey and 10 participants completing the two-month delayed, post-confere...
This pilot curricular integration study demonstrates feasibility and the perceived participant value of incorporating a social EM curriculum into EM residency training....
Schizophrenia is a chronic condition characterized by positive symptoms (auditory hallucinations, delusion), negative symptoms (avolition, social withdrawal), and disorganized thoughts/behaviors. Alth...
Disaster Medicine (DM) is defined by Koenig and Shultz as the "disciplines and organizations involved with governmental public health, public and private medical delivery including Emergency Medical S...
The objective of this study is to analyze the DM components covered in EM residency and EMS fellowship in the United States and compare those to SAEM DM fellowship curriculum guidelines....
The DM curriculum components of EM residencies and EMS fellowships were evaluated, using the SAEM DM curriculum as a control. Overlapping topics, as well as gaps between the programs, were analyzed us...
Of the DM curriculum components developed by SAEM, EMS fellowship covered 15 of 19 (79%) major curriculum components and 38 of 99 (38%) subtopics, while EM residency covered seven of 19 major curricul...
While EMS fellowship covers a large portion of the DM major curriculum components recommended by SAEM, there are several important DM subtopics that are not covered either in EM residency or EMS fello...
The priorities for UK emergency medicine research were defined in 2017 by a priority setting partnership coordinated by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in collaboration with the James Lind All...
A steering group including patients, carers and healthcare professionals was established to agree to the methodology of the refresh. An independent adviser from the JLA chaired the steering group. The...
77 new questions were submitted, of which 58 underwent mini-systematic review. After this process, 49 questions (of which 32 were new, 11 were related to original priorities and 6 unanswered original ...
We have redefined the priorities for emergency medicine research in the UK using robust and established methodology, which will inform the agenda for the coming years....
As a relatively new field, there has been a recent explosion in evidence around the management of children in the emergency department (ED). This review highlights 10 articles published in the last ye...
In the European Union alone, more than 100 million people present to the emergency department (ED) each year, and this has increased steadily year-on-year by 2-3%. Better patient management decisions ...
We have established the Skåne Emergency Medicine (SEM) cohort for developing clinical decision support systems (CDSS) based on artificial intelligence or machine learning as well as traditional statis...
The SEM cohort provides a platform for CDSS research, and we welcome collaboration. In addition, SEM's large amount of real-world patient data with almost complete short-term follow-up will allow rese...
Cardiogenic pulmonary edema (CPE) is characterized by the development of acute respiratory failure associated with the accumulation of fluid in the lung's alveolar spaces due to an elevated cardiac fi...
Together with the "law of entropy", two of the main reasons for the risk of burnout among physicians who work in emergency departments around the world are the variety of clinical issues presented by ...
To gain a deep understanding of factors driving retention in emergency medicine. To understand in detail the day-to-day lived experience of emergency medicine doctors, to identify and explore factors ...
Ethnography and semistructured interviews....
Two purposively sampled emergency departments in England, with additional interview participants recruited via social media and relevant stakeholder organisations....
41 interview participants comprising 21 emergency physicians across 2 sites, 10 former emergency physicians and 10 stakeholders, with 132 hours of observation over 11 weeks in one emergency department...
Three key themes were developed as relevant to the day-to-day lived experience of work in the emergency department, presenting challenges to retention and opportunities for change. First, emergency ph...
The emergency department represents a difficult environment with many challenges, yet by focusing on how doctors navigate these difficulties, we can see the way in which retention occurs in everyday p...
Disaster medicine teaching is an important, and understudied, component of EM residency training programs. Little is known about disaster medicine training in Canadian EM programs, particularly within...
We distributed an eight-question survey to all 31 EM enhanced skills site directors across Canada by email. Questions on the survey asked which of 39 disaster medicine subtopics were (1) currently tau...
Of 31 invited participants, 16 completed the study (52% response rate). The most taught topic was introduction to disaster medicine/nomenclature (13/16 programs), while 11/16 programs currently teach ...
This study identified disaster medicine topics currently taught at Canadian EM enhanced skills programs, along with recommending a list of priority teaching topics. These findings can inform future di...