Emergency Medicine Education Hub
Practical guidance and curated resources for medical students and emergency medicine residents. The goal: build clinical reasoning, pattern recognition, and decision-making that hold up in high-acuity care.
How to Use The Hub
Most learning fails because it happens in short bursts. A weekend course or cram session feels productive, then fades. Durable clinical skill comes from repeated exposure and retrieval practice. Instead, pick one small weekly habit and keep it going for months or a few years. The payoff will compound and you will be amazed by how much you learn over time.
A simple weekly baseline:
One case-based learning session, every week.
One reference-based review session on shift, every shift.
One focused topic read tied to a patient you saw, every shift.
Tools I Recommend and How to Use Them
ECG Weekly
ECG Weekly is for spaced repetition and pattern recognition. High-yield weekly workouts that compound when you watch them consistently.
How to use it:
Pause before the explanation and commit to an interpretation
Write a one-sentence impression and the next best step
Take the workout quiz to reinforce the learning
Save your favorite workouts and revisit it one week later
ECG STAT
ECG STAT is a bedside interpretation guide. Stay logged in at your workstation and use it when you see something abnormal or when you are documenting your ECGs on shift.
How to use it:
Look up the abnormality every time until the differential becomes familiar
Use it to connect the ECG to the patient in front of you
Use it to support clear documentation of what you considered and why
CorePendium
CorePendium is my go to rapid access reference for all things emergency medicine.
How to use it:
Use it on shift to confirm approach, workup, and disposition
After the shift, revisit one related topic and capture three top takeaways
Keep a small list of core topics you revisit monthly
Additional ECG Resources
Use these and anything else you have come to appreciate to deepen your understanding, but build consistency with one primary weekly system and stick to it!
Guidance for Students
Considering Emergency Medicine?
Emergency medicine is a specialty of uncertainty, teamwork, and constant prioritization. The best way to know if it fits is real exposure early enough to improve before evaluations matter.
What I recommend students prioritize:
Reliability and follow-through
Clear, concise presentations with a plan
Asking for feedback and acting on it the next shift
A personal case log of lessons learned, not a list of diagnoses
Student resources
Guidance for Residents
Residents need systems, not content overload. Your job is to compress experience into repeatable frameworks that work under pressure.
What I recommend residents prioritize:
A consistent approach to high-risk complaints
Weekly deliberate practice with ECG interpretation
Reviewing mistakes and near-misses with humility and specificity
A practical ECG cadence:
Weekly: one ECG Weekly case with a written interpretation before reading the answer
On shift: use ECG STAT for every meaningful ECG abnormality you encounter
Monthly: repeat a small set of high-risk patterns until they feel automatic, take a skills exam to test your understanding, find knowledge gaps, and check your progress.
Teaching Files for My Current Learners
Teaching files for current students and residents are hosted on password-protected pages. All lectures and recommended curriculum is kept updated here. If you need access, contact me directly or ask your program coordinator for the current password.