Dr Jesse Pines is interviewed by Dr Rory Merritt on a recent AEM Education and Training article in which Dr Pines and his team explore attributes, traits, background, skills, and behavioral factors important to top clinical performance in emergency medicine (EM) residency.

Threat perceptions in the ED (patients’ subjective feelings of helplessness or lack of control) during evaluation for an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) are associated with the development of PTSD, and PTSD has been associated with medication nonadherence, cardiac event recurrence, and mortality. This study reports the development and validation of a 7-item measure of ED Threat Perceptions in English- and Spanish-speaking patients evaluated for ACS.

Dr Scott Crawford discusses his recent AEM E&T article and describes a novel interview technique at his program, where applicants are observed while working in teams in a virtual reality game called "Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes."