At the 2009 ACEM conference, Judith Tintinalli (Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide) declared the textbook, like newspapers before them, dead. There is a plethora of podcasts and other resources available on the internet, not all of them pertinent to emergency medicine, not all of them good, not all of them free. Rather than providing an exhaustive list, this what we believe is the best out there.
EMRAP: Monthly audio series by ex-Melbourne boy Mel Herbert. They record the best EM presentations from around the US and through tight editing add emphasis bring the discussion to a 'consultant level'. EMRAP has series of sites, not all of them pertinent to trainees but do check out ALL L.A. CONFERENCE. Over the years, Mel has co-opted a few guys who have their own worthwhile websites like Scot Weingart (EMCrit- definitely listen to this if you have a anaesthetics or ICU term coming up) and Rob Ormond (EMCAST)-both on itunes for FREE!
EMERGENCY MEDICINE ABSTRACTS: This is the one that started it all. For over 30 years, Ric Bukata and Jerry Hoffman (of NEXUS fame) have been reviewing 40 journal articles a month. The reason why this is better than the multitude of similar products out there is two-fold: firstly, they don't just read out the abstract and assume that everything it says is true, Jerry will dissect the methods and you will learn more about how to read an article in one podcast than you did in medical school. Secondly, they never look at one paper in isolation, they compare it their database which stretches back 30 years. Next time you have a literature review to do, try it's magnificent search function.
As a minimum, we recommend that you listen to EMRAP and EMA every month in your attempts to keep up to date. Please contact your DEMTs for access.
FREE EMERGENCY MEDICINE TALKS: Joe Lex helped start EM in the US over 40 years ago and has been an inspirational educational speaker ever since. When you hear him talk, you'll realise how crap most medical education is. Over the years he's taped 100's of lectures from around the US and world and is giving them away for FREE. You'll see plenty of familiar big name presenters there, all of them saying Joe's the reason they got into EM.
SMART EM: Monthly FREE podcast from New York. Ridiculously comprehensive literature reviews looking at the evidence and only the evidence. It takes the original literature that's responsible for so much medical dogma and looks at it with a modern evidenced based eye, ignoring the non evidenced recommendations of esteemed institutions. These guys also do theNNT. Evidence based overachievers.
EMEREGENCY ULTRASOUND PODCAST: FREE videopodcast showing you the finer points of US
BESTBETS: From the UK this time. It's a free, open-access database of literature reviews designed to answer specific clinical questions emergency doctors ask themselves every day. It's concise, methodical and has a clinical bottom line.
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