Resources

Caveat Emptor should guide our reading of ALL medical resources be it part of the Literature or on the Web. Please remember to be critical of all information before you let it guide your practice or influence education.

Searching and Evaluating the Medical Literature

• PubMed A simplified interface to searching the MEDLINE database
• Cochrane Collaboration Independent, volunteer reviews of clinical evidence
• Trip Database A simple search site for EBM resources that restricts results to ~75 recognized EBM resources
• SumSearch A metasearching service which searches MEDLINE (for review articles, guidelines, etc), Merck Manual and other textbooks, DARE database (Database of Abstract of Reviews of Effectiveness), and National Guideline Clearinghouse from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR).
• CPSBC Databases Search through various medical databases (Requires Login)
• CPSBC Electronic Journals   2500 e-journals in full text including BMJ, Lancet, and 18 Clinics of North America titles (Requires Login)
• CPSBC Cites and Bytes - Monthly newsletter from CPSBC to help keep up to date with new developments in medicine. (Requires Login)
• The NNT - Quick Summaries of Evidence-Based Medicine
• EM Literature of Note - A Blog by EM Academic Ryan Radecki that looks critically at the current EM related Literature

Searching the Internet

• Wikipedia and WikiProject Medicine - We all use it. DEM member Dr James Heilman is the President of the WikiProject Med Board, whose Mission is To make clear, reliable, comprehensive, up-to-date educational resources and information in the biomedical and related social sciences freely available to all people in the language of their choice. Get Involved!
• EMGoogle - A Google Custom Search Engine (created by DEM member Dr Todd Raine). Searches ONLY EM Blogs, Podcasts, Journals, and Tools.
• UpToDate - A good tool.  Not EM focussed, but free from Vancouver Coastal Health facilities.

Caveat Emptor should guide our reading of ALL medical resources be it part of the Literature or on the Web. Please remember to be critical of all information before you let it guide your practice or influence education.

• CPSBC eBooks - The College maintains subscriptions to three major eBooks providers (Access Medicine from McGraw-Hill, MD Consult, and EBSCO) and you can access the following EM texts plus a variety of others: (Requires Login)
  • Atlas of emergency medicine - 3rd ed. (2010) (Access Medicine)
  • Clinical procedures in emergency medicine - 5th ed. (2009) (MD Consult)
  • Current diagnosis & treatment emergency medicine - 7th ed. (2011) (Access Medicine)
  • Evidence-based emergency medicine (2009) (EBSCOhost)
  • Haddad and Winchester's clinical management of poisoning and drug overdose - 4th ed. (2007) (MD Consult)
  • Rosen's emergency medicine -7th ed. (2009) (MD Consult)
  • Tintinalli's Emergency medicine: a comprehensive study guide (Access Medicine) 
  • Wilderness medicine - 6th ed. (2011) (MD Consult)
• Duke University Division of Orthopedic Surgery has open-sourced the Wheeless Orthopedic Textbook here.

What on Earth is FOAM you may ask? Free Open Access Meducation - "FOAM is the movement that has spontaneously emerged from the exploding collection of constantly evolving, collaborative and interactive open access medical education resources being distributed on the web with one objective — to make the world a better place. FOAM is independent of platform or media — it includes blogs, podcasts, tweets, Google hangouts, online videos, text documents, photographs, facebook groups, and a whole lot more." Life in the Fastlane

What is FOAMed? (from the Creator, Mike Cadogan)

Caveat Emptor should guide our reading of ALL medical resources be it part of the Literature or on the Web. Please remember to be critical of all information before you let it guide your practice or influence education.

FOAM Resources

• EMGoogle – search engine designed to interrogate emergency medicine and critical care (EMCC)  blogs (via @RaineDoc)
• FOAMEM RSS – Syndicated feed aggregator across all EMCC blogs (via @EMChatter)

Best of FOAM

• Academic Life in Emergency Medicine
• Dr Smith’s ECG Blog
• EMCrit
• EM Literature of Note
• ER CAST
• EMRAP
• Life in the FastLane
• MD+ CALC
• The NNT
• The Poison Review
• Resus.ME
• The Trauma Professional’s Blog
• Ultrasound Podcast
• UMEM Educational Pearls

Caveat Emptor should guide our reading of ALL medical resources be it part of the Literature or on the Web. Please remember to be critical of all information before you let it guide your practice or influence education.

• Rural Physicians - The Rural Coordination Center Center of BC has many resources for physicians practicing in community emergency departments.
• Society of Rural Physicians of Canada - A variety of resources including the Rural Critical Care Course.
• Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine - A great resource (especially their "Occasional..." series - a great primer on procedures for learners as well as staff).
• Australia has a huge amount of online resources for the Rural doc, in fact Rural Medicine is its own specialty (Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine)!
• Broome Docs and KI (Kangaroo Island) Docs are both excellent blogs from rural Australian GPs - Highly recommended.

• The Heart.org - Nice summaries and discussion of recent cardiovascular trials/late breaking news
• InfoPOEMS via CMA - Free for CMA members (free, requires registration). Subscribe to the daily InfoPOEMs articles: quick reads with commentary on recent clinical trials. The CMA.ca newsletters section has a large number of other newsletters (eg. Conference notifications, practice tips, etc).

• MedSchoolforParents.com- Website with accurate information for parents with medical inquires