Articles: emergency-medicine.
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To assess current emergency medicine faculty scheduling practices, preferences, and recent changes. ⋯ Residency faculty prefer and have moved toward working shorter shifts. They are also working fewer night shifts per month and fewer night shifts in a row.
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To characterize the attendance at and presenters of conferences given to emergency medicine residents and to determine the ability of emergency medicine residents to attend conferences while working in the emergency department and on off-service rotations. ⋯ We found that a sizable proportion of programs may not have met the new Residency Review Committee requirements for lecture attendance at the time the guidelines were issued. The vast majority of programs met guidelines for relief of clinical duties, and a large proportion of programs exceeded the requirements for percentage of lectures given by emergency medicine faculty.
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To determine the concordance of emergency physicians and radiologists in interpreting cranial computed tomography (CT) scans. The study also sought to determine the clinical significance of misinterpretations of cranial CT scans by emergency physicians. ⋯ The misinterpretation rate of cranial CT scans by emergency physicians is of potential clinical concern. However, clinical mismanagement is rare. We recommend that more formal education in CT interpretation be included in residency training and continuing medical education programs for emergency physicians.