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Collectively, if the #EM community’s goal is to decrease residency positions, we must advocate for higher residency standards – did you know right now an EM resident only needs 35 intubations to graduate?! 🧵
Additionally, ideas around designating an acceptable trauma level distinction for a program’s primary ED, fellowship training requirements for program leaders, etc. have been proposed in the EM community. 🧵
The comment period for the initial stages of the @acgme EM residency program requirement changes (Summary of Themes and Insights for Emergency Medicine Scenario-Based Planning for Program Requirement Revisions) is open until April 5th (acgme.org/what-we-do/acc…). 🧵
Now that the #Match2023 dust has settled, we have celebrated our newly matched M4s, and as @CORD_EM's #CORDAA23 gets started, I wanted to put together some thoughts on the #EM #Match2023, highlight some facts, and answer some questions. Buckle in folks, and let’s get started! 🧵
We know the drop in applicants is multifactorial, EM is about problem-solving, we're working to make the ED a better place for ourselves/our patients, & at the end of the day the majority of EM docs will still tell you how much pride we take in our work & being badass #EMdocs. 🧵
First, those who were shocked by the # of unfilled positions in the EM #Match2023 were not following the preliminary applicant data we have had since @ERASinfo released data in Oct. showing 3,023 students had applied to EM at that time (down from 3,632 in the #Match2022). 🧵
In New Rochelle, the U.S. has a small glimpse into that life under lockdown — where the app economy has dried up, and the food is delivered in rationed bags by a desperate mobilized force. For America, it will be the National Guard — not the cadres. 
New Rochelle High School: "This was the scene today at the sprawling campus that was otherwise quiet as thousands of students are kept out of three of the city's schools in an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus." lohud.com/story/news/loc…
"A [coronavirus] testing site run by Northwell Health was being set up at Glen Island Park this morning. It's expected to begin taking patients on Friday"
"Curbs on transport in Wuhan remain in place, and schools in the province would remain closed until further notice... New infections in Hubei continued to stabilize, with new cases declining for the sixth day. All 13 new cases in Hubei were recorded in Wuhan."
"The [Chinese] economy is still operating at about 25% below its usual levels"
This recent photograph from Wuhan articulates how disconnected from normal life the conditions have become — despite progress in slowing the epidemic and restarting the economy. Food rations are delivered by garbage truck.
"Who wants to go to the dentist or the hospital during an outbreak if a visit isn’t necessary? Yet health spending is 17 percent of the U.S. economy — more than triple the proportion spent in China."
"Agriculture, a sector not noted for day-to-day social interaction and so potentially less harmed by social withdrawal, is a 10 times larger share of China’s economy than it is in the United States."
"For all the talk about the global 'supply shock' set off by the coronavirus outbreak and its impact on supply chains, we may have more to fear from an old-fashioned 'demand shock' that emerges when everyone simply stays home."
