Date: January 23rd, 2015 Guest Skeptic: Nadia Awad is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University, and the emergency medicine pharmacist at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset. She serves as associate editor and staff blogger of the blog, Emergency Medicine PharmD where she regularly contributes her thoughts, […]

Date: January 17th, 2015 I hope everyone has been having a great start to 2015. It’t been really, really busy for me as I get more involved with Emergency Medical Abstracts (EMA). Just did my first EMA recording with Dr. Rob Rogers and Dr. Anand Swaminathan. EMA is available for free for residents as part […]

Date: January 6th, 2015 Guest Skeptics: Dr. Chris Carpenter. Chris is an Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine. Director, Evidence Based Medicine, Washington University. Chris also wrote the book on EMB Co-Author of Evidence Based Emergency Care- Diagnostic, Testing and Clinical Decision Rules. This is the third episode of the Skeptics’ Guide to Emergency Medicine Hot Off the Press […]

Date: January 7th, 2015 This is a SGEM Xtra. Rather than being my usual skeptical self I am going to be Happy. Why am I so happy? Is it to wish all the SGEM listeners Happy New Years? Well sure, Happy New Years, but what I really want to do is make a Happy announcement I […]

Date: January 4th, 2015 Guest Skeptic: Eve Purdy is a fourth year medical student from Queen’s University. Eve is interested in all things medicine but especially emergency medicine, rural medicine, medical education and social media. She is the creative force behind the excellent medical student blog Manu et Corde (Hand and Heart). She is also […]

Date: December 21st, 2014 Guest Skeptics: Dr. Chris Bond. Chris is a clinical lecturer and emergency physician at the University of Calgary, creator of the SOCMOB blog, dogma basher, and wine/food super geek. Chris appeared on SGEM#86 (Achy Breaky Heart) discussing colchicine as a very effective treatment for acute pericarditis. Dr. Teresa Chan. Teresa is an Assistant Professor […]

Date: December 15th, 2014 Guest Skeptics: Dr. Stella Yiu. Stella is an Associated Professor at the Department of Emergency Medicine and a Distinguished Teacher at the University of Ottawa.  Her interests include resuscitation and curriculum delivery in medical education.  She is particularly keen to use social media and technology as tools to teach. Stella runs an amazing […]

Date: December 13th, 2014 Guest Skeptic: Marcus Prescott is a nurse from Norway. He works at the Trondheim University Hospital. His college thesis was called “Barriers and Facilitators to the implementation of evidence based practice among RNs in specialist health care”. Marcus is also a proud member of the Norwegian Skeptics’ Society and runs their Skeptics […]

Date: November 24th, 2014 Guest Skeptics: Dr. Tony Seupaul and Dr. Spencer Wright. Tony is the Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Arkansas. Spencer is a PGY-3 Resident in the Emergency Medicine program at the University of Arkansas.   Five Points about American Thanksgiving: Lots of Travel Lots of Football Lots of Food […]

Date: November 19th, 2014 Guest Skeptics: Dr. Amy Panzenbeck and Dr. Kara Otterness. Emergency Medicine residents from the NYU-Bellevue program. Kara is a senior EM. Her academic interests include ultrasound, simulation, and resident education. When she is not working, her other interests include exploring new places, fine dining, live music, and outdoor adventures. Amy is […]