Are you considering Emergency Medicine as a career choice?

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Welcome to the Medical Student section of the Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine (CDEM) website.  The contents in this section are divided into two categories.  The first contains topics, relevant to all medical students interested in EM - preclinical and clinical students alike.  The second category contains topics relevant to the senior medical student who is applying to EM residency programs.

FOR ALL MEDICAL STUDENTS
An overview of Emergency Medicine

Clerkship Catalog
Residency Catalog
Fellowship Catalog
Timeline for application process
USMLE Boards
Fourth-year medical student curriculum
Away rotation elective
Preapplication checklist
3 vs 4 year residency program format
Apply to how many programs?
ERAS application
Letters of recommendation
Interviews
Other general advice to applicants
Journal of EM publication on application advice (Lotfipour et al. 2008)
ACEP website's list of useful resources for medical students

* Includes introductory Powerpoint slides on Emergency Medicine for interested 1st/2nd yr medical students and for 3rd/4th yr medical students

SAEM MEDICAL STUDENT  EXCELLENCE AWARD                                                                                                

This award is made available to each medical school to select a senior medical student who has demonstrated excellence in the specialty of emergency medicine. Each medical school is limited to one recipient each year. The student selected from each school for the award will receive:

1. One year subscription to the SAEM monthly journal, Academic Emergency Medicine.
2. One year subscription to SAEM Newsletter.
3. One academic year Resident/Medical Student membership in SAEM (July 1, 2008-June 30, 2009).
4. A certificate of "Excellence in Emergency Medicine."
   

 

"Diversity in Emergency Medicine" Video:  Created by the SAEM Undergraduate Education Committee and SAEM Diversity Interest Group, the video highlights nationally-prominent EM faculty.

Audio Highlights from 2007 SAEM Medical Student Symposium:  Each year, SAEM hosts an all-day Medical Student Symposium at the national meeting.  A panel of EM faculty provide practical words of wisdom to medical students, interested in pursuing EM as a career choice.  The talks focus primarily on the residency application process.  Casual, small group sessions are also held to provide a unique opportunity for medical students to get their questions and concerns addressed by residency program leaders.  Audio highlights of the 2007 Symposium were created by the SAEM Undergraduate Committee.

Ultrasound Modules:  The SAEM Ultrasound Interest Group created narrated ultrasound modules covering common bedside ultrasound topics such as the FAST, right upper quadrant scan, and pelvic ultrasound.

USEFUL CLINICAL WEBSITES                                                                                                                                 
   
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Emedicine:  Encompasses almost every topic known to medicine. Holds the view point of EM physicians as well as those in various specialties. A top resource to utilize for overview of disease, evaluation and treatment
Emedhome:  Contains featured articles and clinical case and pearls. Multiple resources such as articles and scoring tools (requires subscription)

TOXICOLOGY
ToxNet:  ToxNet is a cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas.
RxList:  A database of pills, based on the imprint code

MEDICINE
Harrisons Online:  Updated daily, the site delivers the complete text, illustrations, and expanded features from the 15th edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, including additional references, links to MEDLINE abstracts, and important information from emerging fields (requires subscription)
Merck Manual:  Dedicated to providing reliable, easy-to-use medical information.

DERMATOLOGY
Derm Net:  An “award-winning” site that contains information and images of several dermatological conditions. Produced by the New Zealand Dermatological Society.

EKG
ECG Tutorial from the University of Utah:  www-medlib.med.utah.edu/kw/ecg/index.html

NEUROLOGY
The Whole Brain Atlas:  From Harvard, the Atlas is an information resource for brain imaging which integrates clinical information with multimodality imaging data. Cases consist of full volume datasets in one or several tomographic imaging modalities, including magnetic resonance (MR), roentgen-ray (CT), and nuclear medicine.

RADIOLOGY
EMPACS:  An Emergency Medicine Picture Archiving and Communication System which houses a database of plain film and CT images obtained from the Emergency Department
Brigham and Womens Hospital Radiology Cases

JOURNAL SITES
PubMed: A service of the National Library of Medicine, providing access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals.
Medline Plus:  Health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine.
NLM Gateway:   Allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems in the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, MEDLINEplus, DIRLINE, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, Space Life Sciences Meetings, and HSRProj.