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WikEM initially started as a database created from notes and checklists passed from resident class to subsequent resident class at the Harbor-UCLA emergency medicine residency program. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 2009, WikEM was launched as a free wiki-based website and phone application that was universally available to all residency programs and global ...
Its members include medical students, interns, residents, fellows, and alumni who are training in emergency medicine residencies in the United States and abroad. In 2023, approximately 20,400 physicians and medical students were members, including about 11,000 resident physician members. [ 2 ]
This list of emergency medicine courses contains programs often required to be taken by emergency medical providers, including emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and emergency physicians. Prehospital
Scimago Journal and Country Rank Index (SJR 2021): 10/94 emergency medicine journals (cites/doc; 3 years) and 5th among general emergency medicine journals Scopus CiteScore (2021): 3.7, which places 18/90 emergency medicine journals, and 9th among general emergency medicine journals worldwide
Emergency medicine articles describe the scope of conditions and injuries that are diagnosed, treated, and dealt with in the course of paramedic duty, and span over several medical areas, from neuroscience to physiology. The majority of emergency medicine deals with diagnosis of injury on-site.
In 2014, the ACGME, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) announced an agreement to pursue a single, unified accreditation system for graduate medical education programs in the United States beginning in 2015. Plans called for the ACGME to accredit all osteopathic ...
The Canon of Medicine (c. 1000) - Described by Sir William Osler as a "medical bible" and "the most famous medical textbook ever written". [19] The Canon of Medicine introduced the concept of a syndrome as an aid to diagnosis , and it laid out an essential framework for a clinical trial . [ 20 ]
Emergency medicine is a medical specialty—a field of practice based on the knowledge and skills required to prevent, diagnose, and manage acute and urgent aspects of illness and injury affecting patients of all age groups with a full spectrum of undifferentiated physical and behavioural disorders.