Do Emergency Medicine Residency Graduates Feel Prepared to Manage Closed Fractures After Training?

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• 作者：Mark A. Pittman ; Lalena M. Yarris ; Michelle D. Lall ; Jessica L. Smith ; Charlotte P. Wills ; Jacob W. Ufberg ; Cullen B. Hegarty and Jeffrey N. Love
• 刊名：Academic Emergency Medicine
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：24
• 期：1
• 页码：92-97
• 全文大小：77K
• ISSN：1553-2712

文摘

Fractures comprise 3% of all emergency department (ED) visits. Although emergency physicians are often responsible for managing most of the initial care of these patients, many report a lack of proficiency and comfort with these skills. The primary objective was to assess how prepared recent emergency medicine (EM) residency graduates felt managing closed fractures upon completion of residency. Secondary objectives included whether residency training or independent practice contributed most to the current level of comfort with these procedures and which fractures were most commonly reduced without orthopedic consultation.