Traditional teaching approaches are giving way to new ones in medical education. Residents' interest in readily available educational resources is causing instructors to rethink their teaching strategies. This study aims to find which of these ways of learning is preferred by residents. A descriptive survey study was distributed among emergency residents who doing their program in Riyadh during the period from April 2021 to September 2021. All Saudi board emergency medicine residents R1, R2, R3, R4, and post-training residents within the last two years in Riyadh were included. Data were collected using an electronic survey (SurveyMonkey) using a validated questionnaire. This study analyzed 202 residents and post-graduated and ER residents regarding their learning sources and preferences. Participants were at different levels of training as 23.8% were in their first year of residency, 22.8% were in their second year, 19.3% were in their third year, 22.3% were in their fourth year and 11.9% finished their training during the last two years. The majority of the participants 57.4% claimed that they spend 1-2 hours of their extracurricular time on educational material.
BACKGROUND: Recently with the evolution of interest and electronic devices, education was changed greatly to be easier, effective, and reasonable. Emergency medicine is a sensitive part of medicine which need rapid stabilization, examination, diagnosis, and even management of the participant. AIM: In this study, we focused on emergency medicine registrars at King Saud medical city to know their preferred learning methods during extracurricular time. Furthermore, we investigated the relationship between certain demographic characteristics and preferred learning modality. METHODS: We used validation questionnaire design and tested by UTAH University in the United States of America, it was a simple survey designed to cover all important points in short time. We distributed the survey using online tool (survey monkey). RESULTS: Our study results found that podcasts was the most modality chosen by participants as beneficial and they expend their time more on podcasts. Age of participants was shown to be associated with use of internet and Google as leaning tool. We hope that researcher investigates this area of gab and future learning methods during emergency medicine doctors as well as other specialties of medicine. CONCLUSION: We found that participants chose podcasts as a learning channel more than other modalities in our study of emergency medicine registrars at all levels and their extracurricular educational programs. Age was substantially correlated with less use of Google and online searches for educational purposes.
This is a case report of a 13-year-old male, presented to the Emergency Department complaining of a sudden onset left-sided pleuritic chest pain for 1 day. He was found to have a mass in the left Epipericardial fat with fat stranding and pleural effusion supporting the diagnosis of Epipericardial Fat Necrosis. The findings were established by Computed tomography and Ultrasound, and the final diagnosis was confirmed by Magnetic resonance imaging. Subsequently, the patient was discharged on analgesia; reassessment one-month later showed clinical improvement with no symptom recurrence. Repeated Ultrasound demonstrated a marked decrease in size and echogenicity of the mass. In this paper we review the clinical and radiological manifestations of Epipericardial fat necrosis and the different management approaches taken over the years. CASE REPORTA 13-year-old male, presented to the Emergency Department complaining of a sudden onset left-sided chest pain for 1 day. The pain was pleuritic in nature and worsened upon lying down. The boy gave history of a mild trauma while playing hockey 2 days prior to his presentation, but no history of fever. Upon examination, he looked uncomfortable and had shallow respirations with normal vital signs. Auscultation of the chest revealed decreased air entry over the left side. Laboratory investigations showed slightly elevated White Blood Cell count (15.00 g/L), (normal range is between 5.0 to 10.0 g/L), minimal increase in Fibrinogen levels (4.88 g/L), (normal range is between 2.0 to 4.0 g/L), and significant increase in C-Reactive Protein (71.20 mg/L), (normal level is less than 10 mg/L). The patient was given Ibuprofen to relieve his pain and a chest x-ray (CXR) was ordered to rule out Pneumonia. Imaging findings:A posterior-anterior (PA) and lateral CXR was performed, PA view showed peripheral opacity involving the lower mid and inferior aspect of the left hemithorax (Figure 1a). The lateral costophrenic angle was clear. No airspace consolidation or pneumothorax. There were no rib changes. On the lateral view, there was a minimal undulation/thickening seen in the lower anterior chest (Figure 1b).
An 11-year-old boy known to have sickle cell disease presented to his routine follow up with a history of new frontal headache and difficulties with his school performance. Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain depicted a hair-on-end sign, a hallmark of excessive erythropoiesis caused by severe anemia.
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