Doing well on your Emergency Medicine rotation, whether you are a medical student or resident, will depend in large part on your ability to deliver a coherently concise presentation to the senior resident or attending physician. It’s about telling a story that fits into the construct of how the expert physician thinks.

If you ask 20 attendings physicians what the perfect presentation is like, you’ll get 40 different answers. I know, frustrating. Dr. Rahul Patwari’s video below describes a reasonable approach and thought process.

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Michelle Lin, MD

ALiEM Founder and CEO
Professor and Digital Innovation Lab Director
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

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