Emergency
Medicine (EM)
L-I-N-K-S
The big
3 EM organizations
ACEP (American College of Emergency Physicians)
EMRA (Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association) – This organization is under ACEP and focused on helping residents and medical students.
Medical student pearls
- A great rresource on the EMRA site for
med students
interested in a career in EM. (Lots of great
stuff.)
EMRA student section – more great stuff…
Annals
of Emergency Medicine (“Annals”) - This
is
one of the major EM journals. It is associated with ACEP and has
lots of
practical articles and studies.
ACEP
info on
various topics: Bioterrorism,
Contracts,
Domestic
Violence, EMTALA,
Overcrowding,
Pediatrics,
Professional
Liability, Reimbursement,
SARS, Ultrasound,
Wellness
SAEM
(Society of Academic Emergency Medicine) - This
organization is more involved with the educational and academic side of
EM and
has many useful pages for those wanting information on residency and
fellowship
programs.
PGY
1-3, 1-4, 2-4 – Do you want to know which programs are three years in length (R3)? Which R4 programs have
an integrated intern year as opposed
to requiring a separate
transitional/preliminary training year? These pages have
detailed
information on contact info, number of residents, program director,
hospital rotation sites, ED volume, links to each
of the
various EM program websites, and more.
Articles of Interest
– Faculty from all over the country
tell you how to
succeed in rotations, applications, interviews, and along with other
hot topics
in EM.
Virtual
Advisor – A
very helpful way to be linked
to a mentor from an EM residency.
This is a very important resource if you do not have significant
contact with an EM advisor of your own. You
can
indicate preferences for an advisor from certain regions if you would
like to
have connections to EM
faculty in other areas of the country.
Academic Emergency Medicine – This major EM journal has more lab and basic
science articles,
but also has plenty of material related to clinical practice.
It also includes many issues involving issues
pertaining to residents, attendings, and
residency
program improvement.
AAEM (American Academy of Emergency Medicine) - This is an organization that works to protect the EM field and is more political that the others.
"Rules of the Road" - A very comprehensive collection of advice for
students
going into EM from various faculty around
the country.
www.emstudent.org -
This is the student page for AAEM.
It has lots of great links. You may need
to sign up for a free username/password by using the
free AAEM
medical student membership for one year.
Subsequent years will be offered at the discounted dues rate of $20 per
year.
More EM organizations
Residency Program Directors
CORD (Council of
Emergency Medicine
Residency Directors) - A scientific
and
educational organization involving EM training programs and
faculty. Get
your Standard Letter of Recommendation (SLOR) form here.
Standard Letter of
Recommendation (SLOR)
- The SLOR can only be completed by EM
faculty at EM programs
and is part of the application into EM
residency
programs.
This page has the SLOR in template (Internet Explorer only), pdf, and word format. (You can print it
out or save
it on a diskette and give it to
your
letter writer. Your letter writer can also use his computer to
fill out
the SLOR on the website or on word and then print it out.)
Toxicology
ACMT
(American College of Medical Toxicology) – Many toxicology programs are 2
years of fellowship.
In addition to helping with a poison control center, toxicologist may
be
consulted for various issues including overdoses, exposures, and snake
bites.
Pediatric
Emergency Medicine
CPEM
(Center for Pediatric Emergency Medicine)
Pediatric
Emergency
Medicine Database – Many PEM
fellowships are 2 years for EM
trained physicians and 3 years for pediatrics trained physicians.
Other are 3 years for everyone. They
usually tailor the
program to the individual to include more rotations that the physician
has not
as much experience in.
Sports
Medicine
NAEMSP (National
Association of EMS Physicians)
– Many programs have a 1 or 2
year fellowship in
Ultrasound
AEUS
(American Emergency
Ultrasonographic Society) – Several ultrasound fellowships are emerging
as 1 year
fellowships across the country allowing the subspecialist
to teach residents and fellows, certify emergency physicians, and
advance the
use of ultrasound at the bedside in the emergency department.
Windy
City
Ultrasound, Inc. – Educational
programs for
health care professionals.
Useful
for away rotations
and the applications process
ACGMC (Accreditation Council
for
Graduate Medical Education) - This
link
takes you to the search page. SAEM gives you the same info in a
more
user-friendly format, but this site tells you what their accreditation
status
is, when they were last reviewed, and when the next site visit for
re-accreditation is.
SAEM Residency Catalog
– This page links you to information
and websites for
PGY 1-3, 1-4, and
2-4 EM
programs (as listed above
under SAEM).
SAEM Medical Student
Rotations
– This page gives you great info on
available
away rotations and what they require/provide.
FREIDA (Fellowship and
Residency
Electronic Interactive Database) Online – This
AMA webpage gives you the ability to search for all recognized
residency and
fellowship programs in the country, including EM and EM related
fields.
This site may have some details that may not be in the SAEM residency
catalog
(but I would still recommend the SAEM catalog overall).
www.scutwork.com -
This
website is good for reviewing places you are interested in doing away
rotations
and/or residency. People post their thoughts about the cities,
hospitals,
residents, and residency programs so take it with a grain of salt, but
lots of
information that can be quite helpful.
www.studentdoctor.net -
A great way to keep in touch
with fellow med students going through the
applications process or to find out what residents and faculty think
about EM
issues is by asking them! Get the scoop on away rotations and EM
programs. On the main page, look to the left and go to "student
forums"
and then scroll down to click on “Emergency Medicine." Also like
with www.scutwork.com, evaluate what people post carefully, but this is
another
great resource to see what is going on with other students, residents,
and
faculty at EM programs and hospitals around the country. (Look
for me on
those threads and forums!) One
especially useful tool is to hit the “Search”
button. You can search for “
ERAS (Electronic
Residency
Application Service) – This is the
application used by several specialties, including Emergency
Medicine.
You will use this to send programs you application, letters of
recommendation
(LOR), etc.
Cover
sheet
for LOR – Fill out this form and
give it
with your SLOR to your letter writer. It will help get your
letter to the
Dean’s office and uploaded onto
ERAS correctly.
(ADTS) Applicant Document Tracking System – Here you can check to see if programs have uploaded your application materials.
(NRMP)
National Residency Matching Program – You
rank your programs on this website. Remember to hit “certify”
each time
you make a change in your rank order list (ROL) or you will have
just
wasted lots of $ and have to scramble!
References and
resources on clinical
information
emedicine.com
- EM –
ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) – Good to know when your patient is not doing so great, and your upper level just stepped out for the moment…
EMedHome.com – A great place to read up on weekly clinical cases/pearls, monthly articles, current EM news, medical pics, and videos. Sign up to have them email you a daily question.
NYU
Emergency
Medicine Club – An older site but,
great for
learning about common ED drugs and codes (pdf
files),
radiographs, ECGs, etc.
UTMB Library online
textbooks and journals - If you are
a UTMB student, you can use your
email username/password to log on and use the UTMB Library resources
(since
your tuition is paying for it).
Under the 1st column titled "Quick Links," click on "EJournals List" and then choose one of the
following journals:
American Journal of Emergency Medicine, Annals of Emergency Medicine,
Emergency
Medicine, Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America,
European Journal of Emergency Medicine, Journal of
Emergency
Medicine, etc.
Under the 3rd column titled "Products," click on "Electronic
Books" and then choose one of the following:
1. You can choose "MD
Consult," click on "open a generic account," type in what you want
to search for in the search field at the top of the page, and choose
"reference books," "journals/MEDLINE,"
"patient handouts," etc. at the left hand side. Some of the
available resources through this route include:
Roberts: Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine,
3rd ed.,
Marx: Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, 5th
ed., Ann Emerg Med,
Crit Care Med, Pediatr Crit Care Med, and
Emerg Med Clin North Am.
2. You can
also click "STAT!Ref" and then choose from: ROSEN AND BARKIN'S
5-MINUTE EMERGENCY MEDICINE CONSULT, CURRENT
CRITICAL CARE DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT, THE ICU
BOOK, etc.
Practices
questions, ECGs,
various images (radiology, dermatology)
http://www.ncemi.org/ -
A
nice quiz bank of short questions/answers (reference to
Rosen’s, Tintinalli, emedicine.com, etc.)
by clicking on the
button. ECGs come with some
patient info
and answers to the interpretation and subsequent management. Images
that you won’t forget! (They also come with treatment
advice.) Radiographs with info on
what not to miss and what to do
next. Very nice calculators
to quickly
figure out the A-a gradient, Factor IX dosing, or NIH stroke scale
classification. Just scroll down to see countless
tools
like acronym finders (DOE=dyspnea on
exertion)
and other valuable gadgets.
http://www.ultrasound.saem.org/category.htm - Can you find fluid in Morison’s pouch? Is that an ectopic pregnancy or an IUP? Lots of good ED ultrasounds to practice reading.
http://www.embbs.com/ - Nice radiographs, CTs, photos, megacode simulators, peds EM material, and ECGs including Jefferson fraction, acute appendicitis, and Bell’s palsy among others.
http://www.mdchoice.com/em/index.asp
- Hot topicccs, interactive cases,
current
arrticles, etc.
http://www.med.uc.edu/neurorad/webpage/index.html -
Fun
stuff
ER (on NBC) - I wish I were as cool as John Carter.
(And yes,
all of those things really do happen in the ED... but over several
years, not
just one shift)
Scrubs (on
NBC) - Some shifts are actually that
funny.
Trauma:
Life in the ER (on Discovery Health Channel) –
Trauma
(on The Learning Channel) –
Other assorted links
pages
http://www.emedhome.com/resources_reference.cfm
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Last updated on
4/17/04
Questions,
comments, suggestions? Feel free to contact me at [email protected] (I will reply
as soon
as possible.)
(EM=Emergency
Medicine,
ED=Emergency Department, EP=Emergency Physician)
