EM CME
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Need CME Now? Phone It In
You are a couple of weeks away from renewing your state medical license and you realize that you are 10 hours short on your CME requirement for the year. How are you going to cram in 10 hours of CME between your hectic schedule at work and home...
Conferences
While conferences are a great way to get large amounts of CME content, they are time-consuming and expensive. They require you to take time off from work and away from your family, often flying half-way across the country. Luckily, many great conferences offer their content online just a few weeks after the live event. In many ways, the post-conference material online is superior to the live experience. They often offer…
Resources
Total EM
TOTAL EM is an educational website. It stands for "Tools Of the Trade and Academic Learning in Emergency Medicine." The main focus is to provide training to all of those in emergency medicine, especially those practicing in a rural or remote setting as PAs, NPs, physicians, nurses, and those in EMS.
CME: Who Will Pay the Tab?
The cost of running a high-quality CME event has gone up, but physicians aren’t willing to cover the tab. That tension has put the squeeze on medical education, bringing into focus the role of industry in the future of CME.
Emergency Medicine Docs Team Up with NFL for Concussion CME
Using a peer-review methodology, Dr. Waeckerle and members of ACEP developed an accredited continuing medical education course that covers a number of topics related to concussion
Recommended Web Educational Resources Related to Emergency Medicine
In today's hyper-connected world, content is almost a non-issue. When we click on the web, tons of educational resources can be found in websites, blogs, YouTube and in medical education, a recent crowd-sourcing, crowd-sharing concept has emerged - FOAM (Free Online Access Meducation). In recent years, I've got caught up with the FOAM virus too! In this set of slides, I recommend the resources that I've found useful. There are many many more out there, but I think these are the ones that should help a resident or a physician in emergency medicine get started on FOAM, embark on a life-long learning, and use them for blended learning or flipped learning as well.
Social Media Continues to Reshape Medical Meetings
Perhaps more than any other educational tool before it, social media has expanded upon the way learners share, and inspire, on a global level. At it’s most basic level, social media should be thought of as a method for democratization of learning.
Need CME Now? Phone It In
You are a couple of weeks away from renewing your state medical license and you realize that you are 10 hours short on your CME requirement for the year. How are you going to cram in 10 hours of CME between your hectic schedule at work and home? This month we’ll take a step away from gadget reviews and explore the many and varied ways you can use the internet to cram the requisite CME into your life.
EM:RAP
EM:RAP has changed the game for emergency medical education. Gone are the days when you had to buy multiple products from different vendors. With your EM:RAP subscription you gain access to everything you will ever need throughout your career, all for one low price.
EMCrit
Every two weeks we post a full ~20-minute podcast. In between, the site gets filled with blogposts, links, and EMCrit Wees (minature podcasts). CME is available for EMCrit Podcasts.
EMedHome.com
EMedHome.com's mission is to provide a user-friendly clinical resource that is designed to be the premier educational website for Emergency Physicians.
Advanced Wilderness Life Support
The mission of AWLS is to create competence in medical professionals, enabling them to prevent and effectively manage emergency medical situations outside traditional medical facilities.
CEME
CEME exists for the purpose of providing high quality emergency medical educational programs designed to enhance the knowledge of emergency physicians, improving their ability to practice emergency medicine safely and effectively.
DevelopingEM
DevelopingEM is a new direction in medical education, combining cutting edge training in critical care medicine, with a focus on providing a meaningful contribution to medical professionals in developing regions through an inclusive and philanthropic approach. DevelopingEM is a not for profit conference organising agency specialising in providing a practical clinical approach to the delivery of emergency medicine and critical care education to senior practitioners in the fields of emergency medicine, intensive and critical care medicine, anaesthetics, and prehospital and retrieval medicine.
Emergencies in Medicine
Emergencies in Medicine will provide comprehensive, relevant, cost-effective medical education to emergency medicine healthcare professionals. Conferences will be needs based and held at destinations which facilitate focused learning with opportunities for recreation and social interaction.
Essentials of Emergency mMedicine
Essentials of Emergency Medicine combines the latest practice-changing education delivered by incredible educators; an experience meticulously-designed to maximize enjoyment and retention; and a community of passionate colleagues to bring you an event that propels you to the top of your game and continually reminds you why you love what you do.
HippoEM
Hippo EM offers the best educators, best technology, and best content and follows the ABEM EM Model to help you ace the ABEM Qualifying & ConCert exams.
Northwest Seminars
Northwest Seminars is a division of Northwest Anesthesia Seminars that specializes in Emergency Medical Education. Northwest Anesthesia Seminars has been the leader in continuing medical education and travel...
The Center for Medical Education
Award-winning educators, evidence-based content and great locations. Entrusted by over 100,000 participants since 1984.
The Difficult Airway Course
You can piece together an airway education or you can attend The Difficult Airway Course. Our goal is to provide you with the full range of skills needed to confidently manage any difficult airway.
Wilderness Medical Society
Since 1983, when three young physicians conceived the idea for the Wilderness Medical Society, a great deal has been accomplished. Early leaders identified areas of interest that have since become pillars of the curriculum for wilderness medicine education, including CME programs, medical school rotations, outdoor programs and FAWM criteria (see below). In addition to the Society’s annual meeting, it also sponsors topic specific meetings (e.g. Winter Wilderness Medicine and Dive Medicine) and the quadrennial World Congress in Wilderness Medicine.
Wilderness Medicine
Wilderness and Travel Medicine specializes in the highest quality expedition, travel, and wilderness medicine CME conferences for medical professionals. Our courses prepare participants to become more adept at rendering emergency medical care in wilderness environments, which can be remote and austere. These courses are also excellent preparation for medical problems associated with foreign travel, medical missions, and disasters.
World Extreme Medicine
Provides worldwide medical training courses for medical professionals, wilderness medics and for individuals providing advanced medical coverage in remote areas. Our courses are approved by the Wilderness Medical Society for CME and can lead to a FAWM fellowship qualification.
Yosemite Medical Education Foundation
This unique course, co-sponsored by the California Chapter of ACEP, presents a first class CME program in one of the world's most beautiful and inspirational places, Yosemite Valley. The program is unique in that it has a parallel evening program for the entire family, with artists and photographers presenting their work along with speakers with expertise in all manner of subjects relating to the "human condition." The group activities, including guided afternoon hikes, facilitate keeping up with old friends and making new friends. Some of our attendees have been coming for 20-30 years.
ACEP
Links to several easily accessible online education resources, many of which offer CME hours free of charge.
Intensive.org
The International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is organized by the Departments of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine of Erasme University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, in association with the Belgian Society of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (SIZ). The meeting is held every year in March. Started in 1980, this meeting has become established as one of the largest in its field, now attracting more than 6200 participants from countries worldwide.
ClinicalWebcasts.com
Multiple webcasts covering primarily cardiovascuilar emergencies.
CME4Life
Emergency Medicine CME
CMEList
Emergency Medicine Board Reviews and Emergency Medicine CME.
EDICTforACS.com
Emergency Department and Interventional Cardiology Therapeutic Teams (EDICT) for Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS). A national alliance for optimizing ACS care in Cardiac Centers.
International Trauma Life Support
International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) is a global organization dedicated to preventing death and disability from trauma through education and emergency trauma care.
MedChallenger
Challenger Corporation is a medical education company that has spent the last 20+ years identifying and applying key learning methodologies to dramatically enhance learning.
Operational Medicine
Operational Medicine is the healthcare provided in unconventional settings where important resources may be significantly restricted. These resources could include limited supplies, expertise, time, location, or climate extremes.
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