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March 13, 2019
The United States Emergency Medicine workforce has gone through serious changes since EM became recognized as a specialty in 1979. Initially EDs were staffed by physicians with no training in EM, as t...
February 13, 2019
Are you wanting to travel to Mexico but still in your reproductive years, planning to conceive? Well, many of us in the Young Physicians Section are in the same boat.
By Jessica Best, MD, YPS Chair The Texas Department of State Health Services issued a warning about an increase in Mumps cases in immigration centers in Texas. Most cases occurred in the immigrant p...
Sobering fact: One physician commits suicide every day in the U.S., making it the highest suicide rate of any profession in the U.S, according to a recent study presented at the 2018 American Psychiat...
December 3, 2018
The Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act was signed into law on October 24, 2018. There are a few key pieces of this bill that...
April 12, 2018
Everyone feels anxious about their first shift on their own or at a new location. This is natural but can be greatly lessened by how one organizes and utilizes their orientation shifts
April 12, 2018 • ECPS Practice Environments
After residency, I jumped into an academic fellowship that had me working at a large county hospital as well as a community setting without residents.