Take Home Points
- Emergency medicine revolves around the differential diagnosis
- History and physical exam should significantly narrow your differential diagnosis
- Have an idea of what specific diagnoses are being ruled out when ordering diagnostic tests
- Always consider the most life-threatening and most common disease processes first – we are a rule out specialty
- “Red flags” are key historical or physical exam findings that put one at a higher risk for certain conditions
- You have a finite number of shifts as a learner. Challenge yourself to learn something new every day!
REBEL Core Cast – Basics of EM – Mega Summary Part 2
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Co-Host:
Eric Steinberg, DO
Program Director – St. Joseph’s Emergency Medicine Residency
Director, Imaging Curriculum – Foundations of Emergency Medicine
Editorial Board – MDCalc
ALL NYC EM Faculty
Joseph Habboushe, MD, MBA
Cofounder & CEO, MDCalc
Creator & Editor in Chief, EMRA’s Basics of Emergency Medicine
Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, NY
Post Peer Reviewed By: Anand Swaminathan, MD (Twitter: @EMSwami)
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