Emergency Medicine Resources
Canadiem is an online community of practice fostering emergency medicine development and includes a bunch of open-access learning resources. Lots of useful series for clerkship teaching, including their latest podcast series ClerkCast. This group also has a long-running podcast called CRACKcast that tours through every topic in Rosen's Emergency Medicine textbook (more relevant for EM residents, but the first few chapters can be useful for clerks too).
emergencymedicinecases.com is a FOAMED (forever-open medical education) resource bank created by Canadian emergency medicine docs.
Academic Life in Emergency Medicine is an open-access series of resources to support learning in emergency medicine.
A four-week modular curriculum has been developed by a set of American educators. Might not fully translate, BUT has really cool components including a capstone "choose-your-own-adventure" style journey for each of the weeks! Check it out!
Download free here the second edition of the Ottawa Handbook of Emergency Medicine. Highlights in this second edition include a revision of trauma topics, TIA and stroke, ACLS, and vertigo. New sections include POCUS, pain management, and common orthopedic injuries.
FOAMcast was created to “encourage others to move beyond quoting podcasts and into the realm of tying ‘cutting edge’ FOAM to core content.” The team at FOAMcast does an excellent job of critically appraising emergency medicine literature and creating summaries of the potential clinical applications of the papers they review. Each topic is originally presented as a podcast, with an accompanying blog post and infographic available on the website.
Created by Dr. Sarah Foohey, this low-cost innovation allows educators to teach simulation resuscitation cases virtually by layering together both a collaborative document and your choice of video conferencing software (although Zoom is recommended). This site has templates for various cases (via Google Slides) and also case templates for simulation educators.
This study guide was created to provide family medicine residents with a concise and comprehensive resource for the management of concussion. It is a compilation of the most relevant sections and algorithms from current concussion guidelines and resources. The end of the guide also provides other resources for concussion training that can be used to suit different learning styles.
The competency-based learning objectives of this curriculum are as follows:
To recognize that concussion is a clinical diagnosis with specific diagnostic criteria & to rule
out other organic causes
To manage acute and chronic non-complex concussion symptoms and return to activities
To utilize resources and initiate referrals early for complex concussion cases