Can med students join the society for EM ? and should we?

mountaindew2006 said:

just wondering. I went onto saem.org or whtever, and looked for med student membership and could not find anything except the resident one.

just wondering...is it useful to have this professional membership on one's CV ?

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Yes you can join and yes you should. It's really cheap to join these organizations as a med student. It shows some interest in the specialty on your CV. It will also keep you up to speed on issues in the field through newsletters and journals if you choose to read them.

Give this a wiggle.
http://www.saem.org/inform/meminfo.htm

Honestly, I dont' think it makes THAT big a difference to just "be a member to buff your CV." If anything, become a member, read the newsletters, and become cognizant of the current issues/problems with Emergency Medicine.

When I went on my first interview two years ago for EM residency, one of the questions I was fairly asked was "What do you think is the biggest problem facing Emergency Medicine as a specialty today?"

After the interview, all the interviewees were walking back to the auditorium or wherever we were supposed to meet at one time, and one interviewee was telling me "Man, I had no idea what they meant by that question, so I said "The need for metal detectors to protect our staff from weapons.""

*sigh*

So, if you want to do EM, join those groups to learn about the specialty, not to become a CV buffer.

Q

if u join anything i would join acep/emra. u get 2 books top clinical problems in the Ed ( a great pocketbook for the rotation) and a book about the specialty. you also Annals of emergency medicine as well as a bunch of newsletters.