Advice From Last Year's EMRA Resident of the Year!

Emergency Medicine Residency Recommendations
Recommendations Reading and Resources
Tintinelli and Rosen, CME Download (700.00$/yr), EMRAP/Video, Annals EM, Emedhome.com gives one q per day with site and reference and Clinical Pearl of the week, Auntminnie.com Radiology website with archives and case per day. Online: MD Consult and Pepid V5 (like 5 min clinical consult for ED)
Recommended: Handbook of Fractures/Orthopedics, Critical Care Pocket Guide
Things to ALWAYS have with you in the ED:
Pharmocopeia, EMRA Abx Manual, Standfords Abx Guide, Penlight, Trauma Shears, EMRA Airway Guide, Palm

Recommendations for logs:
There is a program called: Handbase.com, a web based for PC Palm that allows creation of databases, which can be converted to Excel, which can be uploaded to New innovations. Allows you to do your logs as you go along. Do them daily or at least every shift.

General recommendations:
US everybody in the department! Place your own Foley’s and get your own urine samples, make your own calls. KNOW your consultants. Do your research early. Read when you are on call. Get into your off service rotations-place as many lines as possible while on ICU. Read for 20 min on 2 cases after each shift no matter what you want to do, set a timer and be done with it. Life is better with time mgt, you must become really good at this. Always work out, even if just for small periods.
Recommended Rate of seeing people:
½ 1st yr: 1 pt/hr ; ½ 1st yr 1.5/hr ; 2yr 2/hr ; 3rd yr 2.3-2.5/hr

Recommendations on Conferences:
1. ACEP: Scientific Seminar of Academic Medicine
2. National EM Board Review Course: 2 in Vegas and 1 in DC, Excellent BR
course, in Fall (Aug-Oct), during 3rd year, there will be big job
recruitment.
3. Difficult Airway Course by Ron Walls and/or SLAM Airway Course

DO’s:
Senior Year:
Boards: 1000 Written q. taken in Chicago, 900 Oral q in Chicago or Arizona, 25 charts reviewed, ususlly has to be repeated once, so make 50 charts, and save your good cases over time that way they can be all together when you graduate. Cases you handled extremely well!

ACOEP:
Be a member now, it’s 5 years before you can become ACOEP “Fellow”, FACOEP, and get this fancy designation. Also need to do something educational-teach classes, etc. and become board certified. It’s HQ is located in Chicago, number is: 312.587.3709.