Emergency Medicine (EM) resident trainees utilize EM podcasts as part of their EM education. Some podcasts are designed to cover EM core content, and others tackle more nuanced topics such as multi-specialty debates, equity in medicine, and procedural skills. There is some debate regarding EM educational podcasts…
Read MoreGoldflam et al. found that a majority of emergency medicine residencies teach wilderness medicine content. Of those programs, greater than 80% create their own curriculum. The American Board of Emergency Medicine has a framework of wilderness medicine topics that are covered on emergency medicine board examinations. How these topics are taught, and…
Read MoreFormal Emergency Medicine training in the majority of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is still in early stages of development. At the same time Emergency Centre (EC) mortality in LMICs is high, with a meta-analysis demonstrating a median mortality prevalence of 1.8%. Although there are multi-factorial reasons for this high mortality rate, the authors state a lack of a robust formally trained Emergency Medicine workforce is one of the proposed problems…
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