Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Comparative Study
The psychological effects of a four-week emergency medicine rotation on residents in training.
To prospectively evaluate psychological stress reactions among residents in an emergency medicine (EM) rotation during a 4-week period. ⋯ A significant increase in psychologic distress was found among the non-EM residents during an EM rotation. The EM residents showed a trend for a decrease in psychological distress over the same 4-week period.
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Comparative Study
A model for an integrated emergency medicine/trauma service.
To describe a model for an integrated multidisciplinary trauma service and to compare survival outcomes for patients resuscitated by either emergency medicine (EM) or surgical housestaff assigned to the trauma service. ⋯ These results suggest that in this model of integrated EM/trauma service, equivalent survival outcomes occur whether EM or surgery housestaff act as team leaders.