Starting in Emergency Medicine
Six sessions on getting started, assessing common presentations and asking colleagues for help.
For: Doctors starting work in an emergency department.
Use the order below as a starting point. Select, reorder or repeat sessions to match the group’s experience and your department’s priorities. Send each learner-preparation link before the session and check the lesson’s review status and local guidance.
6 sessions in the suggested sequence. The timings below come from each lesson; paired practice may need additional time.
Your first day in Emergency Medicine
Start with the department, the team and how to ask for help.
Analgesia in the Emergency Department
Discuss pain assessment, treatment and reassessment using the local analgesia guidance.
The breathless patient: act, assess, reassess
Work through the first assessment of a breathless patient, then practise the respiratory examination.
Chest pain: choosing the right diagnostic pathway
Use the chest-pain cases to discuss investigation, uncertainty and the local pathway.
Recognising and responding to suspected sepsis
Discuss recognition of deterioration, initial priorities and escalation.
Making a useful referral
Rehearse a referral, listen to the response and agree what happens next.
Choose one change to try after each session. At the next meeting, discuss what happened and what you would do differently.
Read the educator’s guide for preparation, small-group discussion and feedback.