Internal Medicine interns and residents were either exposed to standard duty-hour policies of the 2011 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) or flexible policies that did not specify limits on shift length or mandatory time off between shifts. Read more to see what they found.

Simply presenting patients to another physician reduced serious adverse events (NNT = 24) and near-misses.  Now we just need to overcome our hubris and ask our colleagues for advice and input.

We have much room for improvement in educating patients with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) who are discharged from the ED on the importance of outpatient follow up.

This week on one of my favorite podcasts, Hidden Brain, the host, Shankar Vedantam presented something I had never considered in education.  I highly recommend you listen to this podcast for yourself, but I will briefly summarize, because this could have a profound impact on those we teach in Emergency Medicine.

Simon Carley, with the St. Emlyns blog wrote a very helpful post, fully referenced, that you will want to read in detail.  Good stuff.

How do we know when our ego as academics and clinicians has become a problem?  In other words, how can we get off Mt. Stupid of the Dunning-Kruger Curve and onto the Slope of Enlightenment?

This is an interesting glimpse at how technology is and will be changing emergency medicine.

A five minute break before the debrief for a simulation session helped residents with long-term memory of the teaching points vs a group in which there was no break before the debrief.

Emergency clinicians who underestimated their own opiate prescribing were impacted more profoundly to reduce prescriptions by being shown their opiate prescribing data compared to their peers.

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