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| From left, Christopher Musselwhite, M.D., emergency medicine chief resident; Kyle Johnson, M.D., emergency medicine resident; medical students Nicholas Viyouh and Payal Patel; and Michael Sternberg, M.D., professor of emergency medicine, display the awards they won at the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Emerald Coast Conference. |
The USA Health Department of Emergency Medicine, with the support of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine, sponsored four medical students and two emergency medicine residents in a 10-state regional poster competition at the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Emerald Coast Conference. The meeting was held in Destin, Florida, last week; and awards were presented on
June 8.
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| Medical students Payal Patel and Nicholas Viyouh |
“We competed against multiple medical schools and established emergency medicine residency programs throughout the Southeast and ended up winning two of the three awards given,” said Michael Sternberg, M.D., professor of emergency medicine and medical student clerkship director, who has taken many students to the competition during the past 10 years. “We have established a reputation for academic excellence at this conference that greatly influences our ability to place our medical students into their top choices for residency.”
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| Emergency medicine resident Kyle Johnson, M.D. |
Mentored by Sternberg, third-year medical students Payal Patel and Nicholas Viyouh won first place in the clinical case series with a presentation on a patient with acute myelogenous leukemia and thrombocytopenia, which is a deficiency of platelets in the blood.
Kyle Johnson M.D., a second-year emergency medicine resident, also won in the category for his presentation of a case of Wernicke’s encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disorder, that presented as blindness in a pregnant patient. He was assisted by Christopher Musselwhite, M.D., a third-year chief resident.
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