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Teaching Topics for Structured Learning Opportunities

This listing is designed to facilitate brief learning encounters in our Emergency Department in addition to those opportunities generated by patients. The faculty and residents of HCMC encourage you to ask questions throughout your clinical shifts. We have listed a few topics in which we have special interest or expertise. When you come across a patient with a related illness, or have a few minutes of down time, grab us and ask to hear about one of these topics.

 

Cher Adkinson

Carbon monoxide poisoning sources & symptoms

Pathophysiology

Evaluation & treatment

Iatrogenic cerebral gas embolism

Pathophysiology of decompression sickness

Strangulation

Michelle Biros

Minor head trauma

Neurologic emergencies

Psychiatric illness

Scientific writing

Biomedical ethics

Doug Brunette

Ophthalmology

Hypothermia

Iatrogenic complications

Medical photography

Joe Clinton

Aortic Catastrophies

Compartment Syndrome

Dislocations

Bob Collier

Hyperbaric medicine

Electrical injuries

Radiation injuries

Soft tissue infections

Wrist fractures

Richard Gray Hyperglycemia, DKA & HHNS
Eric Gross

Community acquired MRSA

Antibiotic use in the ED

Sepsis

Head CT interpretation

Bill Heegaard  
John Hick

Stridor

Drowning

Electrical/lightning injury

Bomb/blast injury

Disaster medicine

Jeff Ho

Altered mental status

Cervical spine film interpretation

Dental Abscesses

Scott Joing

Urinalysis interpretation

Spinal Cord Syndromes

Christine Kletti

Croup

Peditric asthma

Child abuse

Louis Ling

Acute Management of the Poisoned Patient

Emergency Toxicology

Brian Mahoney

Cervical spine injuries

Cervical spine film interpretation

Spinal cord syndromes

Marc Martel

Acute undifferentiated agitation

Chemical restraints

Medical clearance of the psychiatric patient

Chest tube placement

Emergency medicine residency topics

John McGill

Airway

Wound Care

Developing World Medicine

Jim Miner

Pain management

Chronic pain

Headache

Ventilatory monitoring

Procedural sedation

Dave Plummer

Asthma

Ectopic Pregnancy

Emergency Ultrasound

Rob Reardon  
Robert Rusnak  
Steve Smith

Chest pain

Chest pain short

Chest pain for Reading Group

NSTEMI for Reading Group

Pulmonary embolism

Acid-Base disorders

Drugs of Abuse

Dysrhythmias

The ECG in Acute MI

Steve Sterner  
Al Tsai Neonatal resuscitation
Pediatric fever evaluation