Emergency Medicine Perspectives of Students – Europe

November 22, 2021November 20, 2021 ~ Arif Alper Cevik ~ Leave a comment

Dear EM family,

The International Emergency Medicine Education Project (iem-student.org) has completed three years. As you may know, the iEM Education project aims to promote Emergency Medicine and provides copyright-free resources to students and educators around the world. Now we have reached more than 200 countries. We would like to thank again our contributors. Without them, such a project would not be possible. This experience has shown us once again how passionate our international EM community is to help and teach each other.

In May 2021, we started the fourth year of this journey. To celebrate, we are pleased to announce alive activity series, Emergency Medicine Perspectives of Students Around the World. Our guests for the third session are Nadine Schottler from UK, Helena Halasaz from Hungary, and Gregor Prosen from Slovenia.

Together, we can understand the experiences and needs of medical students from different backgrounds and discuss potential solutions.

Here are the video and audio records of this session.

iem-student.org · Emergency Medicine Perspectives of European Students

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Emergency Medicine Perspectives of Students – World

November 10, 2021October 14, 2021 ~ Arif Alper Cevik ~ Leave a comment

Dear EM family,

In May 2021, we started the fourth year of this journey. To celebrate, we are pleased to announce alive activity series, Emergency Medicine Perspectives of Students Around the World. Our guests for the second session are Maryam Zadeh from Canada, Nawaf Alamri from Saudi Arabia, and Rebeca Barbara from Brazil, who are the leaders of the International Student Association of Emergency Medicine..

Together, we can understand the experiences and needs of medical students from different backgrounds and discuss potential solutions.

Here are the video and audio records of this session.

iem-student.org · ISAEM – EM Perspectives Of Students Around The World

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A Simplified Guide into Emergency Medicine – UK

November 8, 2021October 30, 2021 ~ Nadine Schottler, Great Britain ~ Leave a comment

The great thing about going into emergency medicine (EM) is that it allows entry into the program at various points of your career. So whether you know right off the bat following your two foundations years or whether it takes you a couple of years to make a choice, there is a straight pathway into the speciality (give or take a bit more competition!).

Acute care common stem (ACCS)

The most common entry route into emergency medicine from your foundation years is through the Acute care common stem (ACCS). This will be a 3-year training program and so becomes your CT1-3 years. This will comprise four six-month rotations in Intensive care medicine (ICM), emergency medicine (EM), anesthesia, and acute medicine (AM). Following this, there will be a one-year focus on EM and pediatric emergency medicine (PEM). In terms of examinations, the major ones that need to be completed are the MCEM Part A before the CT3 year and the MCEM Parts B and C before progressing to higher specialty training (ST4).

Defined route of entry into EM training (DRE-EM)

If one doesn’t do the ACCS and decides they want to enter EM in their ST3 year, this can be done view the DRE-EM. For the two years before entry into the DRE-EM at ST3, you need to have a minimum of 2 years of experience in substantive EM posts (which exclude any done during your foundation years). In addition, one of these posts needs to have been in the UK in the previous four years. Examples of such posts could be a core trainee level in an ACCS specialty (anesthesia, EM, ICM, AM), which at the end of the pathway would give you a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or in core surgical training, which would give you a Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration by the combined program route (CESR CP). Your ST3 year following acceptance into the DRE-EM can take 18 to 24 months, depending on how quickly competencies are met to enter ST4.

Before entry into their ST4 years, trainees will be required to have completed the EM specialty-specific examinations before progressing into ST4:

• MCEM Part A or MRCS (Latter for DRE-EM trainees only)

• MCEM Parts B and C

At the end of this training, all trainees will be required to complete the FCEM exit example before their awarded their CCT.

Higher Specialty training (HST) in EM

This is one of the pathways into EM that can be taken following CT3/ST3. Entry at this point is by a selection through a national recruitment process. From this point, HST trainees can also apply for subspecialty training posts, such as PEM or prehospital emergency medicine. This training post doesn’t have to be full-time (i.e., done over two years instead of one year).

This simplified pathway can be seen in the figure below.

However, your route into EM isn’t always straightforward; you might be considering taking a detour, so it’s important to remember that there are backways into EM as well, and not everything will have been covered here! So make sure to check out the ACCS 2021 curriculum guide or the RCEM website for more details.

Emergency Medicine Perspectives of Students – Africa

October 27, 2021October 14, 2021 ~ Arif Alper Cevik ~ Leave a comment

Dear EM family,

In May 2021, we started the fourth year of this journey. To celebrate, we are pleased to announce live activity series, Emergency Medicine Perspectives of Students Around the World. Our guests for the first session are Adebisi Adeyeye from Nigeria, Jonathan Kajjimu from Uganda, and Mohamed Hussein from Egypt, who are Student Council Leaders of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine.

Together, we can understand the experiences and needs of medical students from different backgrounds and discuss potential solutions.

Here are the video and audio records of this session.

iem-student.org · IEM Live – EM Perspectives Of Students Around The World – Africa

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What you should know before your first ED shift

October 13, 2021September 25, 2021 ~ iEM Education Project Team ~ Leave a comment

In this episode of Coffee Chat With Emergency Medicine Experts, we discussed thing you should know before your first emergency department shift. Dr. Ana Paula Freitas, Dr. Gregor Prosen, Dr. Joe Bonney and Dr. Rasha Buhumaid were the guest speakers of this episode. Dr. Dr. Arif Alper Cevik was the hosts of this session.

Dr. Ana Paula Freitas, Dr. Gregor Prosen, Dr. Joe Bonney and Dr. Rasha Buhumaid shared their experiences and lessons learned during their career. We believe medical students and junior EM trainees can learn many from this episode.

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Things you should know about wellness and emergency medicine

September 29, 2021September 25, 2021 ~ iEM Education Project Team ~ Leave a comment

In this episode of Coffee Chat With Emergency Medicine Experts, we discussed wellness and emergency medicine for medical students. Dr. Tracy Sanson, Dr. Al’ai Alvarez were the guest speakers of this episode. Dr. Janis Tupesis and Dr. Arif Alper Cevik were the co-hosts of this unique session.

Dr. Sanson and Dr. Alvarez shared their experiences and lessons learned during their career. We believe medical students and junior EM trainees can learn many from this episode.

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Author: Brenda Varriano Guest Author: Jason M White What is Burnout? Most of us have experienced some component of Burnout in one shape or another.

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