tailieunhanh - FIRST FOR THE AID EMERGENCY MEDICINE BOARDS

Passing the emergency medicine written certification examination is an impor- tant milestone in the process of becoming a board certified emergency physi- cian. The written exam, formerly called the Written Certification Examination and now referred to by the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) as the “Qualifying Examination,” is used to identify candidates who are ready to take the oral exam, the final step in becoming board certified. The Qualifying Examination measures core knowledge, and, to many who must take it, it is an intimidating hurdle. Every year approximately ten percent of examinees fail the test and must retake it the following year. Given that many test takers. | FIRST AID EMERGENCY MED I CINE BOARDS AN INSIDER S GUIDE Resident-proven strategies for passing the Emergency Medicine Qualifying Exam Summaries of high-yield topics ideal for last-minute review Board-proven mini-cases mnemonics and clinical pearls Hundreds of tables and illustrations BARBARA K. BLOK DICKSON s. CHEUNG TIMOTHY F. PLATTS-MILLS Series Editor Tao Le FIRST AID ĨSỈ EMERGENCY MEDICI N E boards BARBARA K. BLOK MD Assistant Professor Division of Emergency Medicine Department of Surgery University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine Aurora Colorado Assistant Program Director Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine Denver Colorado DICKSON S. CHEUNG MD MBA MPH Department of Emergency Medicine Sky Ridge Medical Center Carepoint . Denver Colorado SERIES EDITOR TAO LE MD MHS Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Department of Pediatrics University of Louisville Louisville Kentucky Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Department of Medicine Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Maryland TIMOTHY F. PLATTS-MILLS MD Department of Emergency Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill North Carolina Me Graw Hill Medical New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Medical portal The McGraw-Hill Companies Copyright 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976 no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means or stored in a database or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN 978-0-07-164319-1 MHID 0-07-164319-2 The material in this eBook also appears in the print version of this title ISBN 978-0-07-149617-9 MHID 0-07-149617-3. All trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. Rather than put a trademark symbol after .