Some of these resources are available as PodCasts that automatically download onto your mobile device. You will need to install the latest PodCast App for your device. Most devices have a native PodCast App but there are third party Apps which allow some more functionality. Once you start using this technology you will love it and it sure beats downloading all these talks and lectures to listen later. You can even settup your Podcast App to download the talks you want over your wifi at home and then listen to them "on the road". There are CME credits available for using PodCasts for learning but you may need to take a test or do a Quiz. Watch out for the information on their website about how to get their information and their CME.
1. thennt.com: A resource that allows you to think about the strategies that you would employ in terms of their benefit to the patients that you would target these treatments for. The NNT is a guide for the utility of treatments you might propose.
2. sgem.com: A local PodCast by Dr Ken Milne, Faculty here at UWO. A former Family Doc, now turned into fully dedicated ER physician, Ken Milne blogs and discusses the knowledge translation of upcoming tidbits of evidence from journals and libraries to the trenches.
3. Twitter Resources: Twitter is a social media based information dissemination method. Once you create a Twitter account make sure to follow the following pioneers of Twitter links to phenomenal amounts of EM based information. Of course you can also use Twitter for your personal contacts and to follow your favourite authors, musicians, politicians and medialogues. However, for our specialty, you can use Twitter to keep up with what else is going on as broadcasted. I learned about Twitter for work from Alia Dharamshi, now a PGY-2 FRCP-EM in Toronto. Send her a tweet or follow her on Twitter @alia_dh and she will lead you to discovering worlds of information on Twitter, of course , work related. The following hashtags will get you started on Twitter. Remember to start looking up stuff on Twitter you need to use the "@" or "#" tags. Try using #FOAM @amlitofnote to get started. Enter these into your Twitter searches to get started.
4. lifeinthefastlane.com: Yet another resource with some good cases, blogs and evidence based podcasts on Emergency Medicine