TOTAL EM - Tools Of the Trade and Academic Learning in Emergency Medicine

We need to talk about something: misinformation.  Unfortunately, the world is full of it and we cannot seem to stop ourselves. The Internet was one of the greatest inventions brought forth to the mod...

14 Nov 20178min

When we started last month's celebration of PAs for October, we discussed breaking bad news.  We were then going to expand on that discussion with reference to end of life discussions.  However, throu...

7 Nov 201723min

Technically, this is the last post for PA Month here on the podcast.  Fear not!  There will be more PAs on podcasts coming up.  However, we wanted to finish our discussion with Fred Wu since people ma...

31 Okt 201728min

Emergency Medicine PA Fred Wu is joining us to talk about starting and advancing a career in emergency medicine.  In this two-part series, Fred is reviewing the many aspects of emergency medicine care...

24 Okt 201725min

​We continue our month of celebrating PAs with a new podcast on a topic not well covered: triaging and assessment of the total joint arthroplasty (replacement) patient.  To help us, we have a special ...

17 Okt 201730min

Our guest today (the first for PA month here on TOTAL EM) is Adrian Banning.  She is an Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) guru and is also on the JAAPA Podcast with a previous guest, Kris Maday.  Today th...

10 Okt 201751min

PA Week is October 6-12 this year.  As PAs, we have a lot to be proud of in the 50 years of our existence but with our many advances, there still more we can do.  This month, we are hosting PAs for ou...

3 Okt 201711min

Some of us do it well, some of us do not do it at all, but we all could use improvement.  The medical decision making (MDM) portion of the chart is one area we all can work on.  It is quite possibly t...

26 Sep 201737min