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  • Academic Careers

“You are brave!” Starting a life-long career in emergency medicine

Two new ST1 emergency medicine trainees, who recently started academic clinical fellowships (ACFs) in emergency medicine in Cambridge and Manchester, share their perspectives on beginning a career in emergency medicine in the current challenging climate.
  • Breaking Evidence, top 5 papers

RCEM COVID-19 CPD
Top 5 papers: Week 9

Another week, another top 5! The volume and quality of evidence continues to grow with the team screening over 1,500 studies. This week’s top 5 contains policy shaping big hitters and an additional +1 follow up piece with a spark of controversy
  • Breaking Evidence, top 5 papers

RCEM COVID-19 CPD
Top 5 papers: Week 7

Another week, another top 5! The team has sorted through thousands of papers
  • Breaking Evidence, top 5 papers

RCEM COVID-19 CPD
Top 5 papers: Week 8

Another week, another top 5! The team faced well over 2,000 papers this week, along with a couple of big-hitters, which sneaked themselves in
  • Breaking Evidence, top 5 papers

RCEM COVID-19 CPD
Top 5 papers: Week 6

This week’s flash update is the distilled outputs of a global output of more than 1,700 papers a week
  • Breaking Evidence, top 5 papers

RCEM COVID-19 CPD
Top 5 papers: Week 4

The RCEM Top 5 COVID-19 papers are compiled from expert recommendations, weekly systematic searches, and contributions from the FOAMeD community
  • Breaking Evidence

RCEM COVID-19 CPD Journal Club
The Director’s Cut #3

  • Breaking Evidence, top 5 papers

RCEM COVID-19 CPD
Top 5 papers: Week 5

Another week, another top 5! The team has sorted through thousands of papers, and here are the papers that deserve your attention. If you have the headspace for ten more fantastic papers check out the Director’s Cut
  • Breaking Evidence, top 5 papers

RCEM COVID-19 CPD
Top 5 papers: Week 2

As COVID-19 continues, so does the phenomenal volume of information about it being generated from every corner of the globe. This flash update from the RCEM COVID-19 CPD team, gives clinicians the weekly top 5 research papers, and the findings that can influence your practice on the front-line.
  • Breaking Evidence, top 5 papers

RCEM COVID-19 CPD
Top 5 papers: Week 3

RCEM COVID-19 CPD Top 5 papers: Week 3
  • Breaking Evidence

RCEM COVID-19 CPD Journal Club The Director’s Cut #1

In the online journal club and CPD bulletins (also published here on RCEM Learning) we focus on a small number of papers. There are of course more submitted than we can accommodate
  • Breaking Evidence

RCEM COVID-19 CPD Journal Club
The Director’s Cut #2

It's tough keeping up to date with the ever changing world of Covid19. Whilst we are all working hard at treating patients in the ED and ICU, we also need to try and keep up to date with new evidence coming out all the time
  • Breaking Evidence, top 5 papers

RCEM COVID-19 CPD
Top 5 papers: Week 1

RCEM COVID-19 CPD
Top 5 papers: Week 1
  • Breaking Evidence

Breaking Evidence: The Rod Little prize 2019

Every year, at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Annual Scientific Conference, the Rod Little prize is held to celebrate trainee research and recognise the outstanding work of the winner
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Breaking Evidence: The Elizabeth Molyneux prize 2019

Each year at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) Annual Scientific Conference, the prestigious Elizabeth Molyneux Prize is awarded. The prize, named in honour of Professor Elizabeth Molyneux, recognises outstanding work in the field of Paediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM).
  • Breaking Evidence

Loop recorders and the 24-hour tape: there has to be a better way! The IPED study

The IPED study investigated the use of a new hand-held ECG event recorder for the diagnosis of palpitations or pre-syncope
  • Academic Careers

Getting started in research – Part 4

The NIHR, the "Portfolio", the CRN, and how they relate to your study
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Explaining Research Methods in Emergency Medicine (ERM-EM): Introduction

There are so many different ways you could research a topic that you're interested in, how on earth do you choose between them all? Below, we give you a brief overview of the different research methods available.
  • Academic Careers

Are you thinking about an Academic Clinical Fellowship in Emergency Medicine?

Have you been thinking about the fantastic opportunities that being involved in academic Emergency Medicine (EM) has to offer?
  • Academic Careers, Personal Journey

My personal journey into qualitative research: Dan Darbyshire

I am not the person who any of my medical school colleagues would have pegged for academia. I won't share the contents of the yearbook entry about me, it's too embarrassing. Suffice to say that mentions of alcohol and my Xbox significantly outnumber any aspirations to academia
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Getting started in research – Part 3

First, make sure your protocol is pinned down as far as possible; it's a good idea to liaise with R&D for this.
  • Breaking Evidence

Silencing the seizure: Phenytoin vs. Levetiracetam in paediatric status epilepticus

I remember the excitement in the room at the European Society of Emergency Medicine (EuSEM) conference in September 2018 as the room waited to hear the results of the EcLiPSE trial
  • Academic Careers

Young Investigator of the Year – 2019

This annual award is made at the RCEM Emergency Medicine (EM) Research Engagement Day, previously known as the Clinical Studies Group Day. It is awarded to recognise outstanding contributions towards clinical research in the field of EM.
  • Academic Careers, Personal Journey

Suzanne Mason: Personal Journey

I am a Professor of Emergency Medicine employed at the University of Sheffield. I hold an Honorary contract with Barnsley Hospital Foundation NHS Trust where I undertake my clinical work and am also the Director of Research and Development.

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