News from Internal and Emergency Medicine

Delivering bad news in emergency care medicine

Forecasting is a strategy for delivering bad news and is compared to two other strategies, stalling and being blunt. Forecasting provides some warning that bad news is forthcoming without keeping the recipient in a state of indefinite suspense (stalling) or conveying the news abruptly (being blunt). Forecasting appears to be more effective than stalling or being blunt in helping a recipient to ...

Careers of graduates of combined emergency medicine/internal medicine programs.

UNLABELLED In 1991, the American Boards of Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine changed their credentialing requirements to recognize training common to both disciplines. This allowed the formation of a five-year track for dual board eligibility. From 1995 to 1998, 28 physicians graduated from eight emergency medicine/internal medicine (EM/IM) programs. This study was an analysis of career ...

Accident and emergency medicine or emergency medicine?

Fronts of internal Emergency Medicine research for years to come.

To the Editor: As we have known, Emergency Medicine is an interdisciplinary subject and has many hot spots for research. However, many researchers often worry that their research is too narrowed or not so cutting edge as to be accepted by journals with high impact factor (IFs). Why? One reason perhaps lies in the fact that many of them have difficulty in following the fronts and hot spots in in...

Breathing easier – good news from air medicine

Safety in transport is a major concern. Air medical crashes are in the public eye, but a greater risk of transport may be in the clinical care provided along the way. While the media focuses on the drama of helicopters landing on scene, the greatest and most common risk actually occurs during inter-hospital transport. For too long, transport has been a black hole in clinical medicine and the re...