Welcome to the first edition of the HipPEMcrates Mailbag – where we answer common questions from the Pediatric ER. These are the questions you jot down during a shift to look up later, the clinical pearls you hear your colleagues share during signout, maybe even that one thing that your resident asked you that makes […]
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Starting a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship is exciting—and, let’s be honest, a little overwhelming. So we asked current and recent PEM fellows: What do you wish you had known when you started? From practical clinical tips to mindset shifts, their advice is a mix of honesty, humor, and hard-earned wisdom. As you kick off your
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Welcome to Resources We Love—a recurring series where we spotlight the tools, guides, blogs, and clinical gems that make life in the pediatric emergency department just a little easier (and a lot smarter). We’re all about sharing the evidence-based, high-yield, and actually useful resources that PEM clinicians swear by—whether it’s a go-to pocket guide, a
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What happens when your pediatric emergency department gets the call: a school bus rollover, 30 children involved, injuries unknown? That’s the question we posed to Dr. Matt Harris, PEM physician at Cohen Children’s Medical Center, EMS medical director, and seasoned emergency planner. In this episode of Doctors Are People Too, Dr. Harris walks us through
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1. Find a niche for yourself. You really have to think long and hard about it. What do you really want to do? What do you want to do beyond fellowship? I really think it’s important during fellowship to be choosy in what you do outside of the clinical world. You’re asked to do a
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I think it would be worthwhile for the fellows to read articles from the 1990s. There are a host of articles that will give fellows a sense of PEM history and how things have changed through the creation of solid evidence. It’s these types of articles that fellows can read and hopefully will say –
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1. Be a lifelong learner. My example for this is just a wonderful physician named Fred Bomback. He’s a generation ahead of me as a clinician and still has that excitement for clinical care. He’s not only among the best clinicians I’ve ever known, but he has a voracious appetite for reading and continuing to
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