Examination Emergency Medicine
A Guide to the ACEM Fellowship Examination
By- Garry Wilkes, MBBS, FACEM, Director of Emergency Medicine, South West Area Health Service, Western Australia
- Bronwyn Peirce, MBBS, FACEM, Staff Specialist Emergency Medicine, South West Area Health Service, Western Australia
- Carole Foot, MBBS(hons), FACEM, FCICM, MSc , International Health Management Staff Specialist Intensive Care Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW Australia Clinical Associate Professor, University of Sydney
- Joseph Ting, MBBS BMedSci DipLSHTM PGDipEpi FACEM, Senior Staff Specialist; Mater Public Hospitals; Clinical Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Austraila
Examination Emergency Medicine is a detailed fellowship exam guide to assist emergency medicine trainees; it is intended as a guide to supplement material available from ACEM and covers the preferred nature and format of question types that has evolved - for example a shift towards using photos that show clinical problems, rather than equipment or therapies in the VAQ section.
Paperback, 220 Pages
Published: November 2009
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
ISBN: 978-0-7295-3896-1
Contents
- Dedication
Foreword
Preface
How to use this book
Acknowledgements & Disclaimer
Chapter 1: Preparation for the Fellowship Examination
Chapter 2: Multiple Choice Questions
Chapter 3: Short Answer Questions
Chapter 4: Visual Aid Questions
Chapter 5: Long Cases
Chapter 6: Short Cases
Chapter 7: Structured Clinical Examination (SCE)
Chapter 8: Publication / Presentation Requirement
Chapter 9: The Medical Literature
Part A The Emergency Physicians Guide to Basic Statistics
Part B An Overview of EBM
Part C Important Papers
Index/ Glossary of terms
Standard Abbreviations
Glossary of terms
Index
