ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl – Big Spider, Small Risk
What is the spider pictured below? Atrax robustus (Sydney funnel-web spider) Phoneutria nigriventer (Brazilian wandering spider) Trichonephila clavata (Joro Spider) Trichonephila clavipes (Golden Silk Orb-Weaver) [Author’s own image] [+]
ALiEM AIR Series | Endocrine Module (2025)
Welcome to the AIR ENDOCRINE Module! After carefully reviewing all relevant posts in the past 12 months from the top 50 sites of the Digital Impact Factor [1], the ALiEM AIR Team is [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Green Foot
The patient is a 59-year-old male with a history of prior DVT, atrial fibrillation, HTN, alcohol use and COPD who presents to the Emergency [+]
ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl – Master of Deceit
What venomous marine animal is pictured? Fire coral Lionfish Sea urchin Stonefish [Image from Rapheal Duprat via Wikimedia] [+]
ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl – Big Spider, Small Risk
What is the spider pictured below? Atrax robustus (Sydney funnel-web spider) Phoneutria nigriventer (Brazilian wandering spider) Trichonephila clavata (Joro Spider) Trichonephila clavipes (Golden Silk Orb-Weaver) [Author’s own image] [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Green Foot
The patient is a 59-year-old male with a history of prior DVT, atrial fibrillation, HTN, alcohol use and COPD who presents to the Emergency [+]
ACMT Toxicology Visual Pearl – Master of Deceit
What venomous marine animal is pictured? Fire coral Lionfish Sea urchin Stonefish [Image from Rapheal Duprat via Wikimedia] [+]
SAEM Clinical Images Series: Connect the Dots
The patient is a 39-year-old female with past medical history of polysubstance use disorder and seizures who presents to the Emergency Department complaining of [+]
EM Match Advice 49: 5 Keys to Crush Your EM Residency Interview
It’s fall, which means goofy costumes, crisp apples, pumpkin spice latte, and the official start of the Residency Recruitment Season! Programs are furiously reviewing your applications right now, and this is a perfect time for you to start thinking about interviews. In this episode, Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (Stanford University EM Program Director) provides insider tips on 5 things that you can do now to be prepared to crush your interviews! 1. Consider Your Strategy [+]
EM Match Advice 44: Approaching your EM sub-internship clerkship – “Just gotta roll with it”
Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (podcast host and Stanford University PD) and Dr. Michelle Lin (ALiEM Founder/UCSF) are joined by Dr. Jessica Bod (Yale University Clerkship Director and 2024 CDEM Clerkship Director of the [+]
Hot off the press: Bridge to EM curriculum (2nd edition) released
It has been 3 years since the 8-week, self-guided Bridge to Emergency Medicine (EM) curriculum was launched to help graduating medical students prepare for EM residency. The curriculum has been viewed over [+]
EM Match Advice 43: EM Program Directors Reflect on the 2024 Match
Dr. Sara Krzyzaniak (podcast host and Stanford University PD) and Dr. Michelle Lin (ALiEM Founder/UCSF) are joined by Dr. Abra Fant (Northwestern PD) in this discussion reflecting on the 2024 Match results, [+]
The Fall of FOAM
The landscape of emergency medicine and critical care (EM/CC) blogs and podcasts has changed dramatically over the past 20 years. The number of free, open-access EM/CC blogs and podcasts has plummeted. As reported by Lin and colleagues in JMIR Education (2022), these sites decreased in number from 183 in 2014 to just 109 this year– a drop of 40.1% [1]. via GIPHY This comes after a period of rapid growth of these educational resources [+]
Holiday Gift Guide for ALiEM Readers: Top 7 Favorite Level-Up Gear
The difference between a great shift in the Emergency Department and a frustrating one can sometimes be attributable to having the right gear or peri-shift routine. Listed are the top 6 "level-up" tools, [+]
Holiday Gift Guide for ALiEM Readers: Top 7 Favorite Books
With the holiday season rapidly approaching, we polled the ALiEM team on favorite books to buy for yourself or a fellow healthcare provider. Many of us try to make time to read in [+]
How I Work Smarter: Mark Ramzy, DO EMT-P
One word that best describes how you work? Focused Current mobile device Samsung Galaxy S20 Computer Samsung Notebook 9 What is something you are working on now? Ultrasound Teaching Curriculum (both image [+]
