Sarah Balgord, MD
Research Project: Barriers to Women in Emergency Medicine
Goals:
- Identify selection factors that female medical students prioritize when considering Emergency Medicine
- Identify the selection factors that are negatively associated with female medical students selecting Emergency Medicine residency
Faculty Mentor: Laura Hopson, MD
Christina Cutter, MD, MSc
Research Project: Decision Fatigue in the Emergency Department
Goals:
- Determine the influence of decision fatigue on appropriateness and diagnostic yield of imaging studies in the emergency department
- Examine whether there are structural factors that are protective against decision fatigue surrounding appropriateness and diagnostic yield of imaging studies in the emergency department
Faculty Mentor: Rodney A. Hayward, MD
Rachel Solnick, MD
Research Project: Improving Understanding of the Barriers to ED-based Expedited Partner Therapy
Goals:
- Quantify the current use of EPT at Michigan Medicine using clinical data approach
- Quantify current knowledge and interest level of EPT across national residency-affiliated EM Departments
- Characterize the barriers and facilitators to EPT initiation in the ED and develop an implementation toolkit
Faculty Mentor: Keith Kocher, MD