FACEM Fellowship Recommended Reading
- Textbook of Adult Emergency Medicine
- Cameron P, Jelinek G, Kelly A-M, Murray L, Heyworth J (eds) Churchill Livingstone
- Online: MDConsult Australia – coming soon
- The Emergency Medicine Manual
- Dunn R et al (eds) Venom Publishing
- Emergency Medicine: A comprehensive study guide
- Tintinalli JE (ed) American College of Emergency Physicians, McGraw-Hill
- Online: McGraw-Hill AccessMedicine
- Emergency Medicine: Concepts and clinical practice
- Rosen P (ed-in-chief) Mosby
- Online: MDConsult
- Textbook of Paediatric Emergency Medicine
- Cameron P, Jelinek G, Everitt I, Browne G & Raftos J (eds) Churchill Livingstone
- Online: MDConsult Australia – coming soon
- Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine
- Braunwald E, et al. (eds), McGraw-Hill
- Online access with AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill
- ECG in Emergency Medicine and Acute Care
- Chan T, Brady et al (eds), Elsevier Mosby
- Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine
- Roberts JR, Hedges JR (eds), WB Saunders Company
- Online at MDConsult
- Toxicology Handbook
- Murray et al, Churchill Livingstone
- Online: MDConsult Australia – coming soon
- Clinical Management of Poisoning and Drug Overdose
- Haddad LM, Shannon MW, Winchester JF (eds), WB Saunders Company
- Australian Animal Toxins
- Sutherland SK, Tibballs J, Oxford University Press
- Handbook of Clinical Toxicology of Animal Venoms and Poisons
- Meier J, White J (eds), CRC Press
- Online: Google Books
- Intensive Care Manual
- Berstein AD, Soni N, Oh TE (ed), Butterworth-Heinemann
- Online: Google Books
- Examination Medicine – a Guide to Physician Training
- Talley N, O’Connor S, MacLennan & Petty
- Other useful versions include:
- Examination Medicine 5th Edition
- Pocket Clinical Examination 3rd edition
- Health Science Research
- Peat JK, Allen & Unwin
- Online: Google Books
This is the official textbook reference list. The expected responses for MCQ must be found within these tomes of wisdom – it is therefore useful to refer to the content for the finer points or to define the contentious issues. I still recommend Harwood-Nuss‘ Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine as the most comprehensive, accurate and useful text to refine your understanding of the practice of Emergency Medicine – although this text will not help you pass the MCQ section!
ACEM recommended journals
In addition, the following journals regularly contain articles relevant to emergency medicine, and should be used as a resource for the most recent knowledge in the medical literature. The best way to search the online resources is through GoPubMed.org. There are a growing number of alternative medical search engines utilizing semantic derivation and folksonomic search functionality to refine your searching experience.
- Emergency Medicine Australasia [EMA] (Australia & New Zealand)
- Emergency Medicine Journal [EMJ] (UK)
- Medical Journal of Australia [MJA]
- Published online as the eMJA
- Journal of Emergency Medicine (USA)
- Online at MDConsult.com
- Academic Emergency Medicine (USA)
- Online at Wiley InterScience
- Annals of Emergency Medicine (USA)
- Online at MDConsult.com
- New England Journal of Medicine [NEJM]
- The Lancet
- Online at TheLancet.com
- British Medical Journal
- Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA]
- Circulation
- Circulation Archives
- Journal of Trauma
- Journal of Trauma Online Archive
About Mike Cadogan
Which major text (ie Tintinalli vs Cameron vs Dunn) do you recommend as the most efficient text to base your exam study on?
To be honest I am not the best person to ask.
My preferred text is Harwood and Nuss, it is written in the most SAQ/VAQ friendly manner, contains all the important information and is the easiest to read and digest -- it was my staple bedtime read during FACEM preparation.
This won't help you with your MCQ though as the questions are cross-referenced with Tintinalli and Cameron.
Hope this helps…