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Francis Deng, MD
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Francis Deng, MD
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Asst Prof @HopkinsNeurorad @HeadNeckRads | educator, editor, podcaster interested in diagnostic excellence
- New interns are starting soon. Here are my #TipsForNewDocs from a radiologist. ๐งต When your senior resident or attending tells you to order an imaging test, make sure you understand the purpose. If you don't, ask them! What are you hoping to answer with the study?
GIF - USMLE Step 1 will soon change to pass/fail Predictions: -residencies will start requiring Step 2CK prior to application -more medical schools will shorten the preclinical curriculum and start clinical clerkships early in second year -test prep industry will focus on Step 2
- Residency application statistics 2022 Biggest increasesfrom last year: Vascular Surgery15% Orthopaedic Surgery14% Urology13% Diagnostic Radiology12% Dermatology11% Biggest decreases Emergency medicine-17% IMGs down across the board.
- Trends in residency applicant numbers by specialty, updated with final ERAS data through pre-SOAP Happy #Match2023 week!
- Failure to effectively communicate A teen presented to the ED with chest pain and dyspnea. A CXR was reported below. The patient/family were led to believe it was normal and were discharged home. He died 3 days later. Parents sued. Hospital just settled for $16 million. ๐งต
- Hey @nytimes, calling you out for introducing all the male physicians in this article as 'Dr.' but leaving off the title for Dr. Alison Whelan. nytimes.com/2020/03/26/heaโฆ #heforshe
- One of the largest malpractice awards ever just dropped: "Hospital on the hook for $120M jury verdict after residents miss signs of stroke on CT" radiologybusiness.com/topics/healthcโฆ Always interested in learning from diagnostic error, I looked up the court documents.๐งตpt1 (names redacted)
- New guidelines for dizziness/vertigo in the ED: 1) Don't do noncontrast CT routinely!!!๐ 2) If continuous + HINTS is central or equivocal, do MRI/MRA 3) If episodic spontaneous + concerned for TIA, do CTA or MRA head and neck (conditional recommendation) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11โฆ
- A dramatic complication of invasive imaging: aneurysm re-rupture. Some angiographers wouldn't even save these images, much less blast them on the pages of @NEJM. doi.org/10.1056/NEJMicโฆ
GIF - Grateful to receive this honor from our #RadRes @Hopkins_Rad. ๐Seeing their growth is the real reward. Congrats to our graduating residents; the learning doesn't stop now!
- Lumbar spinal canal stenosis Grading criteria by Lee et al. @SSRbone Diagrams by Ko et al. @PLOSONE (CC BY) now on @Radiopaedia radiopaedia.org/cases/92650
GIF - Trends in number of applicants to residency #ERAS2023: Rising:โ๏ธโ๏ธ Diagnostic Radiology Anesthesiology Child Neurology Rebounding:โ๏ธโ๏ธ Radiation Oncology Interventional Radiology Pulling back:โ๏ธโ๏ธ Otolaryngology Urology Falling:โ๏ธโ๏ธ Emergency Medicine Family Medicine
