🚨 New Paper on if AI *can and should* write your LORs for promotion. Led by @CMPreik and an amazing @ALiEMteam team. #MedTwitter
Key finding: Participants were unable to reliably differentiate between human- and AI-authored LORs for promotion. 😱
https://t.co/jUObnSku5C
Check out another new episode of the "Only in Staten" Podcast featuring @EMSwami and @EMDrLangan
Great discussion on Awareness During Paralysis in the ED!
#EmergencyMedicine#FOAMed
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As we start interview season #Match20234#embound
“These findings illustrate how important live, face-to-face interactions are to our natural social behaviors”
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Harlem Hospital for #ALLNYCEM!
SO MANY RESIDENCY PROGRAMS
Can’t find huge auditorium? Follow the North Face, Patagonia and Arcteryx jackets like I did…
@RJHamiltonMD Also this.... Data was collected from obituaries published in BMJ. A total of 8,156 obituaries, covering the years 1997 to 2019, were analyzed, with each individual categorized into one medical specialty.
The mean age at death for EM = 58.7 years
https://t.co/RekNUN0itk
This is your brain on sleep deprivation.
Scientists in Canada launched the largest study on how lack of sleep affects the brain.
They created games that tested skills like reasoning, language comprehension & decision making.
They had one participant repeat these tests in an MRI machine.
Here's what they found:
On the left is a normal night of sleep.
On the right is when it's deprived of 4 hours of sleep.
The colored areas are the activity happening in your brain. Notice the lack of activity on the right side.
Researchers found there was less activity in the frontal & parietal lobes, which are crucial for decision making, problem solving & mood control.
You are simply not at your best when you don't get enough sleep.
Another study done at the University of Oslo found that lack of sleep leads to reduced clearance of substances from the brain.
These substances are many of the same waste products that are seen to accumulate in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
Some recent studies suggest that poor sleep contributes to higher levels of beta-amyloid protein in the brain, which lead to the amyloid plaques found in the Alzheimer's brain.
If you want a healthy brain avoid long term sleep deprivation.
What should you do?
• When deprived of sleep avoid making big decisions & pause before reacting to an emotion.
• Fix your sleeping habits. If you can't get enough hours, focus on increasing your sleep quality to make up for it.
Sleep is the best legal performance enhancing drug on the planet.
Make it a priority now so you can protect your brain for later.
#Match2024 applicants! Have you seen the 2024 Main Residency Match applicant checklist?
Download the checklist to stay on track with deadlines and important Match dates! https://t.co/SkviblzM4W
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Dynamic Digital Radiography (DDR) allows you to observe movement like never before. This novel low-dose X-ray imaging technique enables visualization of anatomy in motion
[source, read more: https://t.co/4lk8BvLL8j]
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"I hope active shooter drills help, because they absolutely hurt."
Powerful and tragic piece by 3rd grade teacher Mira Taichman in this week's @NEJM. We need stronger gun safety laws so teachers & kids don't have to live like this. https://t.co/dzsUf0QcaR
.@MassDPH tracked an outbreak of diarrhea caused by Cryptosporidium, which spread from one college swim team to another. The outbreak is an important reminder to stay out of the water if you are sick with diarrhea. https://t.co/D7piYCjFAW