ACEM has just posted a video which discusses the Curriculum Revision Project. With commentary from College heavyweights Sally McCarthy and Andrew Singer, as well as CRP project leads and some registrars, it is a brief over view of the CRP covering aspects including: Learning objectives Workplace based assessments Overall goals The goal of the CRP [...]
Working while you’re drunk, wanker bosses, and painful insight. The (real) life of an ED Registrar.
One unanticipated effect of running this blog is that I’m occasionally contacted by ED Registrars who are doing it tough, who are asking for advice or just want a sounding board but for all sorts of good reasons don’t want to talk to their boss or anyone who works in their ED. I have to [...]
New Project: Locum Central
I’ve been locuming for over a decade, and rely on it as my main source of income now, and I’ve accumulated a wealth of knowledge about the locum industry that I want to share. Locum Central is a new site that I’ve designed and built with the aim of helping doctors who do locum work, [...]
Congratulations!
Well done to all those who passed the Fellowship Exam in Sydney last weekend. Congratulations on a job well done, and I hope you have a well deserved break. Andy
New website is under construction
Please bear with us as we get the site converted. The old site was a bit of a rabbit warren so I’m working on streamlining it a bit and improving the usability. You’ll notice changes over the next week, and we’ll back to full steam soon!
Can’t sign up as an EDExam Member? Don’t Panic!
EDExam has exploded over the last 2 years, well beyond my wildest imagination, and has outgrown the fairly simple platform I built it on. The site wasn’t built to handle over 1200 members, and a couple of thousand hits a month, so I’m therefore performing a serious overhaul of the site this week. While this [...]
Chest X-Ray Interpretation
Chest X-Rays invariably show up in the exam, either in the VAQ or SCE sections. At work in the ED, and in exams, I frequently hear descriptions of lung opacities on chest X-rays that invariably include the words “fluffy”, “hazy”, “patchy” and other hopelessly non-radiological, non-medical words. Have you ever read a radiology report that [...]
Emergency Trauma Management Blog & Podcast now live!
Over at Emergency Trauma Management Amit & I have been busy putting together a new blog and podcast that covers the Emergency Department management of trauma, as a free open access educational component of the ETM Course. April seems to be “trauma airway month”, with a couple of great surgical airway videos to check out [...]
Emergency Medicine Revision Notes
Emergency Medicine Revision Notes, put online by Dr Adrian Bonsall, is a great free resource for those sitting the ACEM Fellowship Exam. These notes have been around for a while, and are tailored to the main topics in the exam. They’ve been extensively revieed and updated in 2012 so they should contain some more up [...]
EDExam Podcast Episode 5 – Al Markwell
The next episode in the podcast is my second interview from ACEM2012 in Hobart, with Dr Alex Markwell (@almarkwell). Al is a FACEM from Brisbane who was quite strategic in her planning and execution for the exam, and provides some very practical pearls in this interview. Her great statement that “it’s a marathon, not a [...]
Southern Health Practice ACEM Fellowship Written Exam, June 19th 2013
A quick note for people sitting the 2013.2 (August 2013) ACEM Fellowship Exam. There is a practice written exam, organised by Southern Health in Melbourne, on June 19th (at ACEM Headquarters in Melbourne), with a feedback session on July 3rd at Monash Medical Centre in Clayton. I must stress that this practice exam should ONLY [...]
FOAMed at SMACC, vital for ACEM Fellowship Exam Candidates
I just returned from the SMACC Confernence in Sydney, and will post some updates in the coming weeks about content I think is relevant to EDExam readers. One of the over-arching themes of the conference is the concept of Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed), as pioneered by LifeInTheFastLane founder Mike Cadogan. Doug Lynch from [...]
SMACC 2013: Social Media & Critical Care Conference – this week in Sydney!
This week the most ground breaking, game-changing, modern, international medical conference ever is happening. The SMACC (Social Media and Critical Care) Conference will be held in Sydney from March 11th-13th. With such ED and Critical Care Luminaries as: Scott Weingart (EMCrit) Minh Le Cong (PHARM) Cliff Reid (Resus.me) The Life In The Fast Lane Crew [...]
Coming Soon: Emergency Trauma Management Course
Well the cat is pretty much out of the bag, (thanks to Minh over at the PHARM Podcast) the reason my posts on EDExam have slowed down a bit is because I’ve been spending nearly all of my spare time in the last 9 months working on a new project. Utilising the results from our [...]
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