EM Clerkship
The purpose of this podcast is to help medical students crush their emergency medicine clerkship and get top 1/3 on their SLOE. The content is organized in an approach to format and covers different chief complaints, critical diagnoses, and skills important for your clerkship.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 262
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Round 8 (MW) Groin Pain
You are working at Clerkship General on an overnight shift when the next chart is handed to you. It’s a 35 year old male with a chief complaint of groin pain.
Initial Vitals:
BP: 150/90
HR…
Sat 01 Apr 2023
Deep Dive MW R7
Obtain IV Access – get two large bore IVs (18g or larger)
Resuscitate – un-crossmatched blood at first, don’t forget type and screen!
Medicate – Give Pantoprazole always, Octreotide and Ceft…
Thu 16 Mar 2023
Round 7 (MW) – Vomiting Blood
You are working at Clerkship General when the charge nurse grabs you – “hey we got a real sick one, a 57yo Male who I just put in the resuscitation bay, he is vomiting blood”.
Initial Vitals:BP: …
Wed 01 Mar 2023
Flash Pulmonary Edema (aka SCAPE)
* “Sympathetic Crashing Acute Pulmonary Edema”
* Pathophysiology – Rapid onset of pulmonary edema caused by sudden hypertension
* Triggers- Missed Medication, Cocaine, Stress/Anxiety
* Increas…
Sun 19 Feb 2023
Opioid Use Disorder – What You Do Matters!
In this long-form episode we will discuss opioid use disorder, the leading cause of death in young adults in the United States. What you do matters!
* Why you should care about OUD
* What is…
Wed 01 Feb 2023
The Rank List
This episode will answer 3 big pre-Match Day questions:
1. How do I go about making my rank list?
2. What about post-interview communication both from and to programs?
3. How does this whol…
Fri 20 Jan 2023
Deep Dive MW R6
Aortic Dissection – when there is a tear in the intima layer of the aorta and the blood dissects the intima away from the media creating a false lumen in the aorta
* Historical Features
* Be VE…
Mon 16 Jan 2023
Round 6 (MW) – Weakness
You are working at Clerkship General when the base command phone rings –
“Hey doc just wanted to give you a heads up on this stroke alert we’re bringing you – we have a 70yo M with sudden onset …
Mon 02 Jan 2023
Round 5 (MW) – Leg Pain
You are working at Clerkship General Hospital when EMS calls in a female with opioid overdose, but she won’t stop complaining of leg pain…
Initial Vitals:
Temp: 98
BP: 120/80
HR: 89
R…
Fri 02 Dec 2022
Deep Dive MW R4
Diabetic Ketoacidosis – hyperglycemia, ketosis, and anion gap metabolic acidosis
* Don’t forget about euglycemic DKA (especially in setting of SGLT2 inhibitor) or mimics such as alcoholic ketoaci…
Tue 15 Nov 2022
Round 4 (MW) – Shortness of Breath
You are working a shift at Clerkship General when the charge nurse comes and grabs you to see a 24yo male who appears to be in respiratory distress.
Critical Actions:
* Diagnose DKA* Reple…
Tue 01 Nov 2022
Interviews Part 2 – Acing your interview
Before interview day, do your research on programs and interviews and reflect on the way in which you want to portray yourself.
On interview day, have a cheat sheet with notes about your conversa…
Mon 24 Oct 2022
Interviews Part 1 – Crafting your schedule
* Understand the timeline – research programs to find out when they extend invites and when they host interviews* Prepare for invitations – set up email and text notifications, get a calendar* Accep…
Thu 29 Sep 2022
Deep Dive MW R2
Summary of Key Points
1. You should consider ectopic pregnancy in every patient who is capable of bearing children
2. If a patient of child bearing age presents with severe abdominal pain or v…
Sun 18 Sep 2022
Round 2 (MW) – Abdominal Pain
You are working at Clerkship General when the next chart gets handed to you – a 31 year old female presenting with abdominal pain.
Initial Vitals:
BP: 109/65
HR: 96
RR: 21
O2: 99%
…
Thu 01 Sep 2022
Selecting Programs
Things to consider when selecting residency programs to apply to: 1. What type of program (County, Community, Academic) 2. What length of program (3 year vs. 4 year) 3. Location 4. Culture and L…
Wed 17 Aug 2022
Competitiveness
3 Steps to assessing your competitiveness for matching in an EM residency: 1. Get a good advisor. 2. Look at the data. 3. Maximize your potential.
Further Reading:
EMRA – Apply smarter not…
Wed 17 Aug 2022
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