Didactics
EM Categorical Didactics
 Emergency medicine is uniquely challenging because of the breadth of material its practitioners are expected to master. While the most valuable learning experiences in medicine occur at the patient's bedside and in the clinical arena, these experiences need to be supplemented with regular readings and a formal didactic curriculum to ensure that residents develop without knowledge gaps.
To ensure coverage of the core topics of emergency medicine, there is a weekly conference on Wednesday mornings comprised of lectures and specialized case conferences covering a variety of topics. Residents and faculty share responsibility for the preparation of these conferences. This provides residents an opportunity to research topics deeply and become comfortable organizing and presenting lectures to large groups. The curriculum has been organized so that the core-content of emergency medicine is covered biannually. Additionally, senior residents attend specialized lectures geared toward advanced practitioners. Such conferences both cover core-content topics in greater detail, as well as topics more germane to senior residents (eg. Medico-legal topics, contracts, billing, and EM leadership).
The new evidenced-based clinical topics conference is an opportunity for senior residents to draw on their knowledge of evidence-based medicine to settle controversies in management.
 Residents organize and present joint conferences with other services in the hospital community. Each month there is a trauma conference presided over by an emergency medicine and trauma surgery attending, as well as a medical ICU conference in which interesting critical care cases are presented and the relevant literature is reviewed and discussed with faculty from both emergency medicine and critical care medicine.
 We also have an active grand rounds program where we invite internationally- and nationally-renown speakers to address our residents and faculty.
EM Topic Review is our core-content lecture series that covers the entire EM Model of Cinical Practice over the course of two years. This review is presented in a number of formats to engage various learning styles: oral board type questions, multiple choice questions, small group discussions, and open- ended questions. There is a monthly web-based quiz on the core content of emergency medicine designed and hosted by the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors. This quiz is done in conjunction with the EM Topic Review.
Pediatric and Adult Journal Clubs present a topic of interest every month during Wednesday conference. The latest literature is discussed and scrutinized using the tools of evidence-based medicine, and conclusions are drawn about the need for further research or a change in clinical practice.
The departmental CPC is an eagerly-anticipated annual event in which the most mystifying cases of the year are presented as unknowns and then solved using brute intelligence. The best presenter or discussant is then selected to represent the residency at the national CPC competition.
The residents in our program are active participants in National and Regional Conferences in Emergency Medicine. In addition to the annual SAEM conference to which most fourth-year residents travel, any conference at which a resident presents his/her research will be sponsored by the department.
The residency organizes hands-on workshops in suturing, casting, ultrasound and slit-lamp use. The residents themselves frequently provide similar workshops for medical students rotating in the emergency department. The Residency Directors organize a yearly oral board review, which serves as preparation for the oral board exam for ABEM board certification.
Morning report is held weekdays immediately following morning rounds in the Kings County Hospital Center Adult Emergency Department. A resident or faculty member briefly presents a notable case from the past week and guides discussion of differential diagnosis and management.
EM / IM Combined Didactics
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