This is the first edition of a new, recurrent post format. The First10EM monthly wrap up is a place for me to share updates about the website, about my academic life, and also interesting content, such as books, podcasts, and other FOAMed, that I have encountered in the prior month. […]
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If you haven’t yet discovered the Foohey’s Figures section of First10EM, now is the time. Foohey’s Figures is run by the brilliant educator Dr. Sarah Foohey, and is dedicated to graphics that distill emergency medicine topics down to their basics. They are amazing for quick reference on shift and are […]
First10EM is wrapping up its 9th year in existence. There have been 453 blog posts to date, and I am getting very close to having written 1 million words in total, or the equivalent of 10-20 average length nonfiction books. (Actually, the stats don’t include static pages like the catalog […]
Over the last 6 years, a lot of people have signed up to hear what I have to say about emergency medicine. For that I am incredibly thankful. I am especially thankful to the special group of individuals who have decided to support this site financially through Patreon. This site […]
Thank you to everyone who continues to read this blog! I have managed to have a new post up every week for the last year. Including weeks with multiple posts, I have created more than 75 blog posts accounting for more than 150,000 words over the last year. Considering that […]
It doesn’t seem possible, but First10EM has now been part of my life for 5 years. The first post went up on March 4th 2015 (and seems a little dated now, but I think the ethos of being mentally prepared for the first 10 minutes of the worst emergencies still […]
I wrote the first blog post on First10EM in 2015, so as the calendar tips into 2020 it means that I have been doing this for 5 years. (Those early posts were pretty brutal, but I think the quality has improved with time. Thank you for sticking with me.) I […]