Resources
Emergency Medicine is a very competitive residency. A range of six to ten applicants per residency slot have competed since 1983 (Emergency Medicine As A Career Choice,Ray, Lotsch, found below). The following is a collection of resources to help you in your pursuit of an EM residency position. If you have any questions or suggestions for additions to this page, please let us know.
The EMIG is interested providing you resources to help you in your pursuit of an Emergency Medicine residency postion. From time to time we will add online resources which will be availabe from this page. If you are intersted in something not represented here let us know and we'll try to find it.
The EMIG Resources
- Heart sounds in Macintosh Format: heartsounds.sea
- Heart sounds in Windows Format: heart.zip
- Emergency Medicine Discussion Board
- Free ER Book...newly updated.
- How to Get Into an Emergency Medicine Residency
- On-line ER Forums
- Emergency Medicine Societies
- Emergency Medicine Student Interest Groups
- Other Emergency Medicine Sites
- Student Resouces
New! Join the Emergency Medicine Listserver. Simply send an email message to listserv@itssrv1.ucsf.edu with nothing in the subject and "Subscribe Emed-l" (without the quotes) in the body of the message. You will be sent a confirmation message with directions on how to reply. From then on expect 5-10 messages a day. Its an interactive group that answers questions and discusses issues of interest to Emergency Medicine Physicians.
How to Get Into an Emergency Medicine Residency
- Choosing Emergency Medicine as a career
- "Top Ten Questions Regarding the Organization of your Senior Year"
- "Ten Things To Do Before Applying To An Emergency Medicine Residency"
- The Interview Process - by Carey Chisholm, MD
- "Emergency Medicine rotation list"
- "1997 NRMP Match Results for Emergency Medicine"
- "1997 NRMP Match Results per specialty"
- Carreer Insights MD reference for medical students preparing for the Match or researching residency programs.
We have provided the following two applications in .pdf form. See below for instructions on viewing and printing these documents.
SAEM Membership Application
ACEP Membership Application
On-line ER Forums
- Emergency Medicine chat room
...scheduled meeting time is every Sunday evening at 20:00hrs (EST)Emergency Medicine Societies
- The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM)
- Amercian College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP)
- Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA)
- American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM)
- Association of Emergency Physicians (AEP)
- National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP)
- National Emergency Medicine Association (NEMA)
- American Board of Emergency Medicine, test dates listed (ABEM)
- National Center for Emergency Medicine Informatics (NCEMI)
- Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center
- American Trauma Society (ATS)
Emergency Medicine Interest Groups
- Louisiana State University
- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Tulane University
- University of Arizona
- University of Massachusetts
- University of Minnesota
- University of Nevada, Reno
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- University of Southern California
- University of Texas at San Antonio
- University of Utah
- University of Vermont
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- Wake Forest
Other Sites of Interest
- Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital EM links
- emedicine online text.
- Airway Problems...everything to know about Intubations
- Internet Medical Resources...A Comprehensive List!
- Emergency Medical Abstracts
- Center for Medical Education
- Cyberounds Emergnecy Medicine Conference
- The E.R. Watch - Searchable database of ER cases from 100 U.S. hospitals.
- Interesting ER Cases from the University of Texas
- AAMC Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS)
- The Virtual ER - A great site with links to tutorials
- The Medspeak ER dictionary
- The Interactive Student Lounge
- Carreer Insights MD reference for medical students preparing for the Match or researching residency programs.
- Emergency Medical Pages
- Emergency Medical Abstracts Online
- Emergency Medical Service Magazine
- Emergency Medicine and Primary Care Home Page
Student Resources
- The Biomedical Library
- The University of South Alabama College of Medicine
- The American Medical Association - Medical Student Section at USA
- The USA OVID Database
- The Informedia Project - Digital Library
- The Promedtheus online histology library
- Histoweb online histology library
- NUS Histonet online histology library
- The Medmatrix online histology library
- The Multilingual Medical Dictionary
- The Medical Education Page
Instructions for Viewing .pdf files
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