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.