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| Achievements |
As part of the hospital wide housestaff incentive program, the ED residents have chosen a department specific goal of reducing our mean room to exam time by 20% from last year to increase patient satisfaction. For the first two quarters, the residents have done a great job, reducing last years 30 minute room to exam time to 22.28 min for Q1 and 16.93 min for Q2, well under our 25 minute target. Great job!
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| Faculty Announcements |
The annual Spring Faculty Retreat is scheduled for Wednesday, May 2, at the Faculty-Alumni House. Please mark your calendars. Dr. Maria Raven and Dr. Renee Hsia were both appointed by ACEP to be on a task force to lead ACEP's effort to address a multi-state initiative (led by Washington state) to inappropriately limit ED visits.
The 11th Annual UCSF Education Day will be held at Milberry Union on Friday, April 27, 2012. Abstracts of ongoing education innovations and research at UCSF are due Wednesday, February 15, 2012. For more information click here. Dr. Steve Polevoi was interviewed by UCSF News Service, the SF Chronicle, KCBS radio, and by Dr. Kim Mulvihill on KCBS TV about holiday emergencies.
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Resident Announcements
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Dr. Dina Wallin's photo entitled "Abdominal Pain After Motor vehicle collision" was selected for the 2012 AAEM Scientific Assembly photo competition. Congratulations!
Dr. Jake Miss' manuscript entitled "Improvised traction splints; a wilderness medicine tool or hindrance?" was accepted for publication in Wilderness & Environmental Medicine. Congratulations!
Three residents have been selected for oral presentation of their abstracts in the 15th Annual SAEM Western Regional Research Forum being held March 16-17, 2012 in Las Vegas: Dr. Swati Singh's abstract, No. 2149, entitled "Improving Paramedic Education in Management of Psychiatric Emergencies" (Dr. Sean Kivlehan will be presenting for her as she will be in Tanzania); Dr. Hangyul Chung-Esaki's abstract, No. 2072, entitled "Prospective Validation of a Prediction Instrument for Endocarditis in Febrile Injection Drug Users"; and Dr. Daniel Kievlan's abstract, No. 2143, entitled "Impact of an English-Based Pediatric Software on Physician Decision Making: A Multicenter Study in Vietnam."
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Publications
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Fee C, Burstin H, Maselli JH, Hsia RY. Association of emergency department length of stay with safety-net status. JAMA 2012;307(5): 476-82. doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.41.
Daulaire S, Fine L, Salmon M, Shah S, Teismann N. Ultrasound assessment of optic disc edema in patients with headache. Am J Emerg Med 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2011.06.030. Sporer KA, Hodell EM, Brown JF. Which Emergency Medical Dispatch Codes Predict High Prehospital Nontransport Rate in an Urban Community? Prehospital Emergency Care 2012:16:175. Presented at NAEMSP 2012. Govindarajan P, Cook L, Ghildarducci D, Johnston SC. Probabilistic Matching of Computerized Emergency Medical Services Records and Emergency Department and Discharge Data. A Novel approach to Evaluation of Prehospital Stroke Care. Prehospital Emergency Care 2012:16:172. Presented at NAEMSP 2011.
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Presentations
| Drs. John Brown, Prasanthi Govindarajan, Karl Sporer, and Clement Yeh attended the National Association of EMS Physicians 2012 annual meeting in Tucson, Arizona.
Drs. John Brown, Karl Sporer, and Clement Yeh where they presented a poster on "Which Emergency Medical Dispatch Codes Predict High EMS Non-Transport Rates in an Urban Community" which was co-authored with UCSF MS II Evan Hodell.
Dr. Prasanthi Govindarajan also presented her work and chaired the session at the NAEMSP conference entitled "Comparative Effectiveness Research: Opportunities for the EMS Community."
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Save the Dates
| February 2 at 11:30 am Grand Rounds Speaker Joshua Broder, MD, from Duke University will speak on Risk and Radiation
February 15 Abstracts of ongoing education innovations and research at UCSF are due for Education Day on April 27
March 8-9 3rd Annual Northern California Emergency Ultrasound Course in Monterey March 15 at 11:30 am Grand Rounds Speaker Stuart Swadron, MD, from USC April 27 UCSF Education Day at Milberry Union May 2 Faculty Spring Retreat at Faculty-Alumni House
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