Christmas Cancellation Canned
The Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine has made an urgent press release: Christmas will NOT be canceled!
Category UCEM
Utopian Medicine is a medical discipline devoted to the pre-emptive, pre-emotive and peri-departmental management of patients coordinated by the Utopian College of Emergency for Medicine (UCEM).
Christmas Canceled?
Egerton Y. Davis the Fourth, spokesperson for the Council Executive of the Utopian College for Emergency in Medicine, has announced that UCEM intends to cancel Christmas. He stated reluctantly: ''Tis not the season to be jolly, 'tis the season to be horrifically injured".
Chicken or the Egg?
Which came first - the chicken or the egg? Despite millennia of extensive research, evidential debate and philosophical procrastination the answer to this riddle still remains a mystery...or does it?
World Cup Fever WCF
World Cup Fever: pathological condition where healthy individuals manifest augmented physical responses in the presence of minor noxious stimuli.
The Curriculum Rehash Proposal
The UCEM presents it's Curriculum Rehash Proposal just in time to save the world from inadequately trained and poorly rounded emergency physicians
UCEM OSCE SCENARIO 004
UCEM OSCE SCENARIO 004. You are the ED Consultant in charge of a tertiary hospital ED. You are approached by the red team night registrar to review a patient with a lower limb ulcer.
Calligraphitis
UCEM call upon the wider academic cardiological community to fund research into the under-diagnosed conditions of 'calligraphitis' or literary heart syndrome and the positive electropenogram
Australia lead the way in improbable research
Founded 20 years ago by Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research, the Ig Nobel awards recognise genuine academic research and "honour achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think".
The Staghorn Challenge
Staghorn's election to the UCEM Council Executive came with a challenge - to find the hidden references to kidney stones. Here are the winners and the answers.
Sultana-related Sentinel Event
The LITFL team have heard through the grape vine that Professor Inglebert Struvite Staghorn, at the bequest of the Society for the Prevention of Surgery, has been investigating an unfortunate episode currantly referred to as the ‘Sultana-related Sentinel Event’. A…
UCEM Selectively Research Rival Research Institute
The UCEM has today received leaked information that Wakefield is set to open his own research institute to collect evidence that supports his assumptions.
How to fail Orthopedics
Student life can be tricky and orthopedic surgeons are intimidating. If you were asked to tell a funny joke, and your grade depended on it, what would you say?