Twitter conference notes: High Risk EM and Gaming Symposium

Yesterday, I attended two fantastic conferences and so wasn't able to make a new Paucis Verbis card:

• UCSF High Risk Emergency Medicine
• UCSF Gaming and Learning Symposium

Here are my Twitter notes for the day for those of you who don't use Twitter (and why don't you?!):

Area of Distinction resident project: Health disparities and ED closures in California

Here is another slide set from our residency program's Area of Distinction presentation day.


Dr. Hemal Kanzaria presented his project on Health Disparities in California, specifically focusing on ED closures. The data was pulled from various state and national datasets. Of the 7.2% (29 of 401) of ED closures in California during 1998-2008, it seems that for-profit hospitals with a high proportion of non-White and MediCal patients are more at risk. Fascinating data.

Areas of Distinction resident project: Injuries in Golden Gate parks

Last week, I had the pleasure of listening to our graduating EM residents' Area of Distinction (AOD) project presentations. I was actually quite blown away be the caliber, sophistication, and variety of projects. I thought I'd share a few on the blog.

Here is the first one by Dr. Jake Miss on "Injury patterns and incidence in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) during 2005-2009" his Wilderness Medicine AOD.

I am still wondering what a "foreign body" injury is from Table 2. Apparently there were two instances of this during the study period.

UCSF-SFGH Emergency Medicine residency program