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"To be or not to be?" What could be more strange on a medical school curriculum than a theater training course? The authors of this study in Medical Humanities innovatively designed a 1-week elective course to help medical students at Mayo Medical School to improve their case presentation skills in partnership with the Guthrie Theater. [+] The post Article review: Improving case presentations with theater training appeared first on ALiEM.

The classic teaching for the treatment of diverticulitis includes: Hospital admission Bowel rest (NPO) IV fluids Broad spectrum IV antibiotics Do ALL patients need to be admitted? There is some early literature suggesting that there is a small sub-population who fare well with outpatient treatment.

   A patient presents with a swollen finger after falling and fracturing it. The patient is more distraught by the fact that she can’t get the ring off her finger. She implores you not to cut the ring off. There are textbook chapters written about tightly wrapping the digit with string from distal-to-proximal and sliding the string under the ring. Theoretically, the provider can pull and unwind the proximal end of the string to gradually coax the ring over the coils of string. I have personally found little luck with this maneuver.  

What do these three people have in common?  Lucille Ball (comedienne) Jonathan Larson (wrote the musical “Rent”) John Ritter (comedian)

   I am in the midst of generating posters for the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) conference. My residents and I came across this resourceful site about making them. Better Posters http://betterposters.blogspot.com/