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I'm an EM resident and I want to get better at rash recognition. Are there any great books with copious amounts of pictures of rashes that I can use to make flash cards?

These patients can easily become hypoglycemic, especially if they have long acting medications and/or AKI. How do you like to prevent hypoglycemia? (i.e. 1/2 NS D5W maintenance fluid? frequent POC glucose?)?

PGY-1 here with little experience with abscesses. On my second shift we had a patient come in with an "abscess." It looked like an abscess externally, even was expressing some pus. However, I&D expressed almost exclusively blood. There was little change in size of the mass. The attending said...

I understand your point and I agree with you in theory... However, whenever I argued that point to an OB-Gyn attending during a zoom lecture she said I was wrong and my peers agreed with her.

During trauma resuscitation is any attention paid to hemoglobin levels [i.e. "Hb is 10.0 so don't transfuse PRBC"], or is the decision exclusively about hemodynamics and circulation exam? I assume that a low Hb would indicate transfusion requirement, so my main question is would a normal Hb...

I am MS4 preparing to take Step 3 ASAP after graduation. CCScases.com is awesome. Tons of cases, specific scoring, concise explanations, and very affordable. I 100% recommend for anyone nervous about the CCS component.

I start residency on 6/23, and I have one mandatory day on 6/16. This gives me a 3 week scheduling window. However, I understand that I cannot schedule Step 3 until after I have graduated (5/30). I have no idea how long it takes to schedule the exam and whether or not all my school stuff will be...

I am trying to Decide between several programs on my rank list. One is well-established, whereas another one is a very new HCA program. The benefit of the new HCA program is that it gives my wife and I a much better chance of ending up in the same place during residency. My concern is Whether...

This thread was about the 2020 cycle, which was different because of COVID pandemic. Your understanding would be correct for years prior to 2020, and presumably will be correct once things get back to normal. IDK if they have said anything regarding 2021 expectations.

I.e. do the residents communicate their impressions of us during the social to the ranking committee? These zoom socials are so boring. They are just Q&A’s, and half the questions people ask are things that can be easily answered with a google search. I want to do flash cards or read or watch...

My school doesn't offer an EM AI, so I have to do either an IM or ICU AI in order to graduate. Would the experience ICU AI be of significant benefit to me as a resident? Or should I just do whatever AI is most convenient for me and enjoy 4th year as much as I can? I have no other good ICU...

I've gotten 2 invites on Thalamus but none on ERAS. I've submitted everything. Anyone else having this issue?

I plan on accepting 17 interviews this year (the maximum). I'm wondering when to expect to have the interviews, as I need to also decide when to take certain MS4 courses that have particular schedule requirements. i.e. are interviews usually held on saturdays/sundays or are they any day of the...

I have to cast a broad net b/c my wife is a year below me and I want to end up in a place where she has a high likelihood of matching into a nearby institution (therefore I'm looking at big cities, esp. Houston, Detroit, Chicago, New York.). Given that we can only attend 17 interviews this...

If you have a patient that has a high shock index I know you don't want to always through IVF at him, as this could worsen an obstructive or cardiogenic shock. On the other hand, if the patient is highly unstable you may not want to wait for that workup before resuscitating. In the latter case I...