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**Eagle5US** · 12-26-2017, 11:51

After being a PA for nearly 20 years now - including as both mil and civilian, EM residency trained and DOZENS of conferences attended...

BY FAR I can tell you the ONE conference that has CONSISTENTLY been:

1. The most informative
2. Entertaining to the point of hilarity
3. I have retained the MOST from EVERY time I have been fortunate enough to attend
4. The most applicable in the field of Emergency / Sports / cutting edge medicine where I have come back and actually CHANGED PRACTICES IN MY ENTIRE DEPARTMENT based on the information presented...

ESSENTIALS OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Has not mattered what year I went, It has ALWAYS been outstanding.
Some "lectures were as short as five minutes...

i.e.:
Forget all the garbage you thought you knew about subject XXX -
This is the meat of it....

One slide later.

Thank you.

Additionally, they will consistently have multiple providers from their trauma center on stage that will open a cutting edge topic for discussion - and they will discuss different points of view, physiology, and outcomes for the same. It is a true debate, reinforcing the PRACTICE of medicine vs the color by number algorithmic approach of some conferences. "This way or no way" garbage I hate.

Lastly -
They have a podcast: EMRAP

I HIGHLY recommend this for cutting edge, unto date, simple breakdowns of common disease processes, EBM applications, and trends on the forefront of emergency medicine.

Hope this helps.

12-26-2017, 11:51	#4
Eagle5US Quiet Professional Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Tampa Posts: 2,496	After being a PA for nearly 20 years now - including as both mil and civilian, EM residency trained and DOZENS of conferences attended... BY FAR I can tell you the ONE conference that has CONSISTENTLY been: 1. The most informative 2. Entertaining to the point of hilarity 3. I have retained the MOST from EVERY time I have been fortunate enough to attend 4. The most applicable in the field of Emergency / Sports / cutting edge medicine where I have come back and actually CHANGED PRACTICES IN MY ENTIRE DEPARTMENT based on the information presented... ESSENTIALS OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE Has not mattered what year I went, It has ALWAYS been outstanding. Some "lectures were as short as five minutes... i.e.: Forget all the garbage you thought you knew about subject XXX - This is the meat of it.... One slide later. Thank you. Additionally, they will consistently have multiple providers from their trauma center on stage that will open a cutting edge topic for discussion - and they will discuss different points of view, physiology, and outcomes for the same. It is a true debate, reinforcing the PRACTICE of medicine vs the color by number algorithmic approach of some conferences. "This way or no way" garbage I hate. Lastly - They have a podcast: EMRAP I HIGHLY recommend this for cutting edge, unto date, simple breakdowns of common disease processes, EBM applications, and trends on the forefront of emergency medicine. Hope this helps. __________________ Primum non Nocere "I have hung out in dangerous places a lot over the years, from combat zones to biker bars, and it is the weak, the unaware, or those looking for it, that usually find trouble. Ain't no one getting out of this world alive. All you can do is try to have some choice in the way you go. Prepare yourself (and your affairs), and when your number is up, die on your feet fighting rather than on your knees. And make the SOBs pay dearly." The Reaper-3 Sep 04
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