The UCSF-SFGH
Emergency Medicine Residency Program officially started
on June 21, 2008 and welcomes its first stellar class of EM
residents.
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| RECENT NEWS July 2008: |
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| Stop the press! Our Department of EM, Department Chair Dr. Calllaham, and new intern class are highlighted in a major article in UCSF news. | Dr. Beth Kaplan publishes an article in the open-access journal PLoS ONE on showing that simplifying consent process for HIV testing increases screening and detection. Reference | Our first day of conference on July 3, 2008 was a huge hit. Great didactics, great company, great fun. Photos | Dr. Susan Brim (PGY-1 resident) publishes in Pediatrics about the prevalence of asthma in unrepresented minority children. Pubmed |
| Dr. Robert Rodriguez publishes in Annals of EM about the Emergency Dept serving as a "welfare" safety net in that basic needs of the homeless impact ED visits. | Dr. Robert Rodriguez joins the journal editorial board for Open Access Emergency Medicine. | Dr. Sanjay Arora publishes in Western J of Emerg Med on Pacemaker Extrusion Causing Chest Pain. Reference | Dr. Robert Rodriguez, President of Cal AAEM, publishes his President's Message in Western J of Emerg Med. Reference |
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| We had a great showing at the 2008 SAEM meeting. Dr. Susan Promes (didactic on Feedback), Dr. Michelle Lin (didactic on Crowding & Education), Dr. Renee Hsia (oral presentation on Elderly Patients and Trauma Centers), Dr. Robert Rodriguez (oral presentation on Predictive Factors in Endocarditis). | Named to 2008-09 SAEM committees: Dr. Chris Fee (Crowding Task Force, Guidelines Committee), Dr. Michelle Lin (Nomination Committee, National Affairs Committee, Clerkship Directors of EM academy) | Dr. Keith Loring is a cyclist for and one of the top fundraisiers for this year's AIDS LifeCycle (cycling event spanning 545 miles in California). | Dr. Renee Hsia publishes an economic analysis of health measurements on child mental health in Internal Review of Psychiatry. |
| The Moodle educational management software site is finally built for the EM Residency. It houses the 2008-09 conference schedule, all the handouts and relevant pdf articles, discussion forum, and a wiki site for our residents/faculty. | The inaugural Intern Welcome Party at Dr. Karl Sporer's Sonoma home was a huge hit! Photos of event and Orientation week | Dr. Martha Neighbor is one of the finalists for the John Murray SFGH Excellence Award. | Dr. Eric Silman (PGY-1 resident) gets highlighted on the UC Irvine website. |
| Dr. Rachel Chin officially launches her new textbook "Emergency Medicine of Infectious Diseases". | Dr. Nima Afshar, Dr. Eric Isaacs, Dr. Ingrid Lim, Dr. Michelle Lin, Dr. Susan Promes, Dr. Jeff Tabas publish chapters in the new textbook-- Adams' Emergency Medicine. | Dr. Jeff Tabas publishes a Femoral Line video in New England Journal of Med. | Dr. Brian McBeth is named a Top Reviewer again this year for Annals of EM. |
| Dr. Renee Hsia receives a Strategic Opportunities Support grant from the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) to study socioeconomic disparities in access to emergency and trauma care. | Dr. Christopher Fee publishes in Annals of Internal Med on the lessons learned from the flawed performance measure of 4 hours for time-to-antibiotics for pneumonia. Pubmed | Dr. Eric Silman (PGY-resident) publishes in Western J of Emerg Med on imaging of a pediatric SCIWORA injury. Reference | Dr. Prasha Ramanujam publishes in Prehosp Emerg Care about accuracy of stroke recognition by EM dispatchers vs paramedics. Pubmed |
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