The Final 2015 EMBER
Download, bookmark, aggregate, follow & create for a happy new year! The holidays are over and with it 2015 is coming to a close. One of the missions of the […]
The Autopsy Blog
Maintaining your learning stream (your customized flow of educational content) is a key part of being an effective lifelong learner. Even in the age of FOAM the center of your […]
Opiates for Low Back Pain
Are They a Good Choice? By – Lucy Willis MD Low back pain is an extremely common ED complaint, for which opiates are frequently prescribed. The last 20 years has […]
Basecamp
#Postards from the ED There are educational courses and there are inspirational courses. I had the opportunity this weekend to participate at BASE Camp. The brainchild of Kevin Ching, it’s […]
Airway News
Hey, can I get a jazz riff — New York style please? View this post on Instagram Music everywhere 🗽🎁🎉😎🎺🎷🎺🎶 #music #busking #NYC #rtrain A post shared by Jonathan St. George […]
Design Challenge Innovators
Design Challenge Innovators Yesterday was our EM Innovation in Education Design challenge. We had participants from our faculty and residents, and also some really talented medical students on their sub-internship […]
Design Challenge-Bridging the Education Gap
The EMBER Project’s Design Challenge is on! We want to bridge the education gap, move beyond just a few adopters of FOAM, and encourage physician educators of all levels to […]
Sick Or Not Sick? An Essential EP Skill
A new series is here on the EMBER Project and a new educational tool. Check out the post below for both! And don’t forget to take the quiz when you’re […]
The Changing Paradigm of VTE Care
The EMBER Project is having a good day. Despite the cold and snow on our first day of spring, it’s also the first of what I hope will be many […]
Surgical Airway Summary
Our online walkabout on the emergency surgical airway is coming to an end. I hope you’ve found this helpful, I know I enjoyed doing it. The emergent cricothyroidotomy presents many educational […]
Who are the stewards of healthcare?
I met a father yesterday in our ED who didn’t want antibiotics for his child’s otitis media. He had read that a wait and see approach with appropriate analgesia might […]
Case Reports from the
Here is a slightly different twist on Virchow’s triad, and one that I had not seen before until yesterday: a spontaneous upper extremity DVT (Paget Schroetter Disease) in an otherwise […]
Great Potential
I was going to use this post to talk about potential spaces in the body until I made the mistake of mentioning it to a surgical friend of mine (yes, […]
The Heel Bone’s Connected To
The EMBER: Here is a nice blogpost from someone who went through the experience. Sometimes a well told patient story is better than any textbook.
Notecards in Verse – IST3
There’s a reason that the greatest speakers of truth in our society are still the comics and the poets. As a member of the medical profession I would like to […]
Tools to Live by – Infectious Disease App
My recent post about subjectivity in clinical practice, and its central, […]
The MedEDge Design Lab 