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Ryan Coughlin, MD

Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine
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Assistant Residency Program Director, Emergency Medicine

About

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Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine

Assistant Residency Program Director, Emergency Medicine

Biography

Dr. Coughlin is an Assistant Residency Program Director of Emergency Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Coughlin has networked with EM and EMS physicians nationally to create shared open-source fellowship education, EMS board review materials, and lecture libraries. His current research projects include challenging high-performing residents, resident-teacher feedback, mass casualty preparedness, active shooter and hostile event response, and prehospital ultrasound for dyspneic adult patients.

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Education & Training

Fellow
Yale University, Medical Education, Teaching and Learning Center (2020)
Fellow
Yale-New Haven Hospital Emergency Medical Services (2017)
Resident
Yale-New Haven Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program (2016)
Chief Resident
Yale-New Haven Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency Program (2016)
MD
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Medical Doctorate (2012)
BA
Tufts University, Mathematics (2008)

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Education; Emergencies; Emergency Medical Services; Emergency Medicine; Environmental Medicine; Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest; Tourniquets; Wilderness Medicine

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Ryan Coughlin's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

2022

Clinical Care

Overview

Ryan Coughlin, MD, is an emergency medicine physician who treats all emergencies in all specialties.

“Emergency room visits come with built-in stresses,” says Dr. Coughlin, who tries to ease patients’ worries by including them in decision-making using language they can understand. “I love meeting all kinds of patients with all kinds of complaints and being placed, by chance, into an intense relationship with them,” he says. “I love knowing how to diagnose and manage time-sensitive emergency conditions related to all subspecialties of medicine. Respecting the unknown, both about a patient and about their condition, makes every shift exciting.”

Dr. Coughlin embraces the opportunity he has to educate resident physicians, medical students, and advanced practice providers. “Medical education is a career-long endeavor, and we are growing together,” he says.

Dr. Coughlin is an assistant residency program director for Yale’s Emergency Medicine Program. He is also a member of the Sponsor Hospital Area Response Physician (SHARP) Team, the only state-certified EMS physician response team in Connecticut. He has specific interests in independently directed practice improvement, austere emergency medical support, such as wilderness, tactical, and disaster preparedness.

He is an instructor with the West Hartford Police Tactical & Protective Medical Branch Cadre, providing education for Connecticut State Police, SWAT, marshal, fire, and paramedic personnel. His current research projects include high-performing trainees in medical training, mass casualty preparedness, cardiac arrest, wilderness medicine, and prehospital ultrasound.

Clinical Specialties

Emergency Medicine

Board Certifications

  • Emergency Medical Services

    Certification Organization
    AB of Emergency Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    2019
  • Emergency Medicine

    Certification Organization
    AB of Emergency Medicine
    Original Certification Date
    2017

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