Want to learn more about prehospital medicine?

The purpose of this section is to collate good quality, easy to access resources to learn more about prehospital care and careers in prehospital and emergency medicine. This will include websites, podcasts and other helpful FOAMed resources we come across!
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Podcasts

• The Resus Room: podcast hosted by A&E doctor and paramedic, covering basics of important topics from 'roadside to resus' and summarising key research every month
• FOAMcast: An Emergency Medicine podcast 
• EMCrit: Emergency medicine and critical care podcast
• Core EM: Podcast covering core knowledge relating to emergency medicine
• PHARM: Dr Minh Le Cong’s Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine blog and podcast
• ​Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary
• REBELEM: Podcast focused on exploring different clinical questions in emergency medicine
• Portfolio Medical Careers: New podcast by Dr Amy Hughes, dedicated to exploring alternative career paths, often with a focus on emergency and prehospital medicine. 
• Picking up the Pieces: Podcast hosted by London's Air Ambulance Charity, looking at patient and family perspectives as well as clinician mental health 

The Faculty of Prehospital Care Student and Junior Group

• Supporting PHEM education for medical students and junior doctors
• Events and talks
• Yearly Student and Junior Conference 
• Opportunities to volunteer as an OSCE patient for the Diploma in Immediate Medical Care exams at the Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons 

Blogs

• Paul Auerbach: Dr Paul Auerbach, one of the world’s leading outdoor medicine experts. A mine of useful information.
• BroomeDocs: Educational blog for rural generalists
• Don't forget the bubbles: great resource for paediatric emergency care
• Matt Edwards: Adventures with AMREF Flying Doctors
• Emergency Medicine Cases: Canadian medical education blog and website with cases, quizzes and topic posts.
• Emergency Medicine Ireland: Emergency Medicine FOAM site based in Ireland
• EM Updates: Emergency medicine flashcards
• Forrington’s Travels: Dr Simon Forrington’s AMREF Flying Doctors blog
• Go Flight Medicine: Military and civilian evidence-based aviation medicine FOAM blog
• ITeachEM: Site dedicated to medical education in Emergency Medicine
• KI Doc: Rural Medicine blog from Australia
• Life in the Fast Lane: Australasian Emergency Medicine and Critical Care blog
• Pediatric Emergency Playbook: American blog focused on paediatric emergency care
• RAGE: Resuscitationist’s Awesome Guide to Everything – emergency medicine, critical care and retrieval medicine audio podcast
• RCEMLearning: E-learning from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine
• Resus ME: Cliff Reid’s site with the latest on life-saving medicine, including pre-hospital care
• SMACC: Social Media and Critical Care: International FOAM conference
• St Emlyn's: emergency medicine and critical care FOAMED blog.
• Taming the SRU: blog and emergency and prehospital medicine resources

Other

• iLearn: training videos from South Western Ambulance Service
• iResus app: and app by Resuscitation Council UK for easy access to guidelines