Articles: emergency-medicine.
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Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther · Jun 1995
[Education of the medical student in first aid, emergency and disaster medicine--the Graz model].
In Austria emergency and disaster medicine is a young interdisciplinary subject. It is only a borderline discipline encompassing different medical subjects and was subdivided into emergency medicine for medical doctors only and first-aid for lay people and emergency technicians. ⋯ According to the three steps of the study lectures and practices, all parts of first-aid, emergency and disaster medicine were offered. In spite of the short time since this has been running, we found a good acceptance and we hope to increase the interest evinced by medical students in our training programme.
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There have been a limited number of studies assessing the impact of attending physician supervision of residents in the emergency department (ED). The objective of this study is to describe the changes in patient care when attending emergency physicians (AEPs) supervise nonemergency medicine residents in a university hospital ED. This was a prospective study including 1,000 patients, 32 second- and third-year nonemergency medicine residents and eight AEPs. ⋯ The most common major changes were ordering laboratory or x-ray tests that showed a clinically significant abnormality, and eliciting important physical exam findings. Potentially limb- or life-threatening errors were averted by the AEP in 17 patients. Supervision of nonemergency medicine residents in the ED resulted in frequent and clinically important changes in patient care.