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What is the smallest sized hospital that could support a full time EM doc before it is more feasible to have the local FM docs do coverage?
20-30 beds? 30-40beds?
20-30 beds? 30-40beds?
Good question. I don't know. I don't do trauma any more but I don't really feel like I can't deal with it when it does roll in.On a similar note...do you think one would loose skills working in a rural ED. I imagine you'd do a whole lot less intubatios and chest-tubes...Would this cause atrophy of skills? Or is it like riding a bike?
On a similar note...do you think one would loose skills working in a rural ED. I imagine you'd do a whole lot less intubatios and chest-tubes...Would this cause atrophy of skills? Or is it like riding a bike?
Similar mechanisms of injuryAround here it is mostly MVA, 4-wheeler and snowmobile related, but occasionally you will have the oddball
- fell out of deer-stand
- got hit by deer-stand falling of tree
- shot himself in leg while on deer-stand, falls off deer-stand
- chain-saw injuries
- crush injuries, logging accidents, heavy equipment
You can get jobs in rural ED's as an FP. However, I don't think your training is sufficient, and neither do many hospitals. As EM gains more recognition as a bonafide specialty, and as more EM trained physicians are available, FP's will soon find themselves out of work. Many hospitals -- even rural hospitals -- now require EM physicians to be board-certified in emergency medicine. FP's will never have that option, unless you become "board certified" in Florida by the other organization. It is unlikely that other states will recognize this "board certification."so then here's a question - if one was interested in practicing EM in a rural area, and participating in patient transports - could they just as easily land in that position as an FP? i know that in alaska its the FP's that arrange the medevacs around the state. but anyway, medevac aside, is FP just as direct a path to practicing in a rural area that offers EM-type work? from what i'm reading, its sounds a but like "yes" . . . i'd love to hear more from those who know more about it
thnx all
so then here's a question - if one was interested in practicing EM in a rural area, and participating in patient transports - could they just as easily land in that position as an FP? i know that in alaska its the FP's that arrange the medevacs around the state.
-Closed head injury as a result of being hit in the head by a stump that the patient was trying to remove using 2 fulls sticks of dynamite
-Car vs. cow (hint: the cow won, the car didn't)