Emergency Ultrasound Usage Among Recent Emergency Medicine Residency Graduates of a Convenience Sample of 14 Residencies

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 214-221

  Dean, Anthony J ^a   Breyer, Michael J ^b   Ku, Bon S ^a   Mills, Angela M ^a   Pines, Jesse M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

bedside ultrasound; emergency; emergency medicine; training; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY MEDICINE; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; INJURY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICIAN; POINT OF CARE TESTING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENCY EDUCATION;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAMPLING STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 76449104470     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2007.12.028     Document Type: Article

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