Importance Diagnostic imaging overuse in children evaluated in emergency departments
(EDs) is a potential target for reducing low-value care. Variation in practice patterns across …

Background At the 2011 Annual Business Meeting of the Canadian Geriatrics Society
(CGS), an ad hoc Work Group was struck to submit a report providing an estimate of the …

Background Recent surveys suggest few emergency medicine (EM) training programs have
formal evidence-based medicine (EBM) or journal club curricula. Our primary objective was …

Objectives: Our primary objective was to survey the graduates of one residency program
with respect to anticipated versus actual medical practice. Methods: Using a modified …

Emergency medicine (EM) has been undergoing a period of rapid international
development over the past two decades (Fig. 1). This expansion has been fostered by a …

In 1987, I found myself in the painful situation of strug-gling to answer a key question during
a residency application interview. The question: what did I feel were the differences between …

Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess medical students' knowledge of and
attitudes toward the two Canadian emergency medicine (EM) residency programs (Fellow of …

Emergency medicine has been recognized as a spe-cialty in Canada for a quarter of a
century. But how distinct is our discipline, and how well prepared are we to meet the …

Health care in Canada is universal, accessible, transferable and publicly funded. Each of
Canada's provinces has the responsibility for health care funding and delivery through its …

Background The aim of this study was to determine whether the current South African
Emergency Medicine Curriculum is appropriate for the burden of disease seen by registrars …