The Best Emergency Medicine Resources
on the Web
★ = must see
Emergency Medicine Podcasts / Vodcasts: EM:RAP audio ★ – Highly-recommended monthly podcast hosted by Mel Herbert and Stuart Swadron. Free to EMRA members via their website. Over 8000 subscribers.
EM:RAP TV ★ – free resource for all. Excellent videos. EMRAP: Educators Edition – free resource on how to become better teachers EMRAP: Critical Care – podcast on Critical Care in the Emergency Department, hosted by Mike Winters, Robert Rodriguez and Peter DeBlieux. ($60/year) EMCast – monthly 90-minute podcast on Emedhome ($99/year), hosted by Amal Mattu. USC Grand Rounds Live – available on livestream, Thursday mornings (Pacific time).
Emergency Medicine Clinical ResourcesMDCalc ★– website with medical equations, scores, calculators, made by an EM physician. MicroMedex – good pharmacopeia, with excellent toxicology information VisualDx – great way to diagnose dermatologic emergencies
Emergency Medicine Lectures, Videos, Talks:
acep-emedhome.com ★ – great EM educational resource with hundreds of hours of video for $79/year. Includes previous ACEP scientific assembly videos. Free for residents with membership to AAEM. FreeEmergencyTalks ★ – great repository of emergency medicine talks (mp3 format), many by nationally-renowned speakers, put together by Dr. Joe Lex at Temple University. USC Essentials Online ★ –videos of lectures from one of the largest EM conferences organized by Mel Herbert ($49/year) EM:CORE Content ★ – compilation of the best videos from EMRAP and USC, again from the Mel Herbert empire ($99/year for residents) ALL LA Conference – another excellent collection of videos, these are free. University of Wisconsin--Madison Video Library – selection of Emergency Medicine, EMS, and Critical Care videos. Also see their EM Grand Rounds on itunes. Emergency Department Lecture Series from Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York. University at Buffalo (SUNY) Emergency Medicine Videos – includes videos of recent Grand Rounds as well as Inservice Reviews, Ultrasound, and other topics.
UCSF Virtual Emergency Medicine Lecture Series Emergency Medicine Cardiac Research and Education Group (EMCREG) videos (free) – great talks on cardiovascular and neurovascular emergencies, but may be biased due to industry sponsorship. Open Access Emergency Medicine Talks – contains most of the talks from FreeEmergencyTalks as well as some older talks (note: no password required--just click 'cancel' when you get to the password prompt) FERNE lectures – collection of neurological talks from FERNE (Foundation for Education and Research in Neurological Emergencies Emergency Medicine Abstract Services Emergency Medical Abstracts ★ – summary on new research and EBM, hosted by Rick Bukata and Jerry Hoffman. Great way to keep up with the literature. Free for residents. KeepingUpinEM ★ – produced by Vanderbilt faculty twice a month, this podcast reviews the current emergency medicine literature (free for now). EMReports.com – biweekly publication on the latest advances and research in emergency medicine. Year Book of Emergency Medicine – complication of abstracts from most significant papers relevant to emergency medicine, sourced from over 500 publications. Emergency Medicine Pearls
Emergency Medicine Subscription Sites Emergency Ultrasound EM Sono - costs $80/6-weeks or $249/year for residents Emergency Medicine Bedside Ultrasound (EMBU) Education SiteSonoguide - great ultrasound guide for emergency physicians Emergency Ultrasound Course - Online and Onsite learning
Emergency Medicine Inservice Exam/Board ReviewThe inservice exam consists of 225 questions (of which 25 questions are experimental) and is administered over 4.5 hours on the last Wednesday in February. Intrainingprep ★– for only around $50, this website offers a basic preparation video lasting 12 hours PEER VII ★– gold-standard in-service preparation questions. PEER VI is also a great resource, but no longer published. PEER VII is more representative of the actual exam. 1000 Questions – online question bank. Requires password which comes with the book. Dr. Carol Rivers' Board Review – was once the gold-standard review for the written boards. It is over 1300 pages long, in outline format. Now back in publication and available through OHACEP. CORD tests – made by the Council of Residency Directors. There are close to 2000 questions available. Some of the questions aren't great, but it's a free resource.
Emergency Medicine Procedure Videos (# needed per RRC)
Adult medical resuscitation (45)
Adult trauma resuscitation (35)
ED Bedside ultrasound Cardiac pacing (6)
Central venous access (20) Chest tubes (10) Procedural sedation (15)Cricothyrotomy (3) Dislocation reduction (10) Intubations (35)
Intubation videos from theairwaysite.com Lumbar Puncture (15) UCSF video
Pediatric medical resuscitation (15)
Pediatric trauma resuscitation (10)
Pericardiocentesis (3)
Vaginal delivery (10) others: Arthrocentesis of knee Basic splinting techniques Ottawa Emergency Medicine videoBasic laceration repair Vertical mattress Horizontal mattress
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Emergency Medicine Blogs
These are some of the influential blogs in emergency medicine
Life in the Fast Lane ★– “Emergency Medicine Blog, vernacular insights and health 2.0 reasoning” The Central Line ★– “Sharing the ideas, opinions and experiences of emergency physicians” hosted by ACEP EMCrit Blog –by emergency medicine intensivist Scott Weingart. Also see his blog. Movin’ Meat – "The accidental blog of a semi-accidental ER doc living in the Pacific Northwest."
Blogborygmi – "A digest of developments in the life of an emergency medicine physician"
GruntDoc – "Ramblings of an emergency physician in Texas"
Emergency Medicine OrganizationsACEP ★ (American College of Emergency Physicians) – emergency medicine's premier specialty society formed in 1969 with more than 21,000 members EMRA ★ (Emergency Medicine Residents' Association) – an independent organization that serves the interests of residents and medical students, with more than 8000 members TNCEP (Tennessee College of Emergency Physicians) – Tennessee's chapter of ACEP SAEM (Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) – an organization dedicated to emergency medicine's academic environment in research, education, and health policy AAEM (American Academy of Emergency Medicine) – a democratic specialty society of Emergency Medicine. ABEM (American Board of Emergency Medicine) – one of twenty-four specialty boards recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties
Emergency Medicine Journals (Impact Factor)
Annals of Emergency Medicine ★ (3.755) - Official Journal of ACEP Emergency Medicine Magazines (Usually free to EM Physicians)
Emergency Medicine Magazine – "The Practice Journal for Emergency Physicians" Emergency Physicians Monthly – "The Independent Voice for Emergency Physicians" Emergency Medicine News – "Emergency Medicine's Only Independent News Magazine"TraumaEmergency Medicine Research Links
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