Scenario
You are the Director of Emergency Medicine in a 150 bed district hospital. Your Chief Executive Officer is concerned about your ‘did not wait’ (DNW) rate of 15%.
Question
Describe your approach to this situation. (100%)
Answer
FACEM SAQ Exam 2008.1 – Question 7
- The overall pass rate for this question was 52/62 (83.9%).
- Pass Criteria
- The examiners felt that most candidates who had a good structure addressing the major causes of this problem would pass.
- Candidates who thought beyond the issue of access block scored well.
- Features of unsuccessful answers
- Poor answers lacked structure or seemed to run out of time as witnessed by paucity of content.
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