Best EM journal

[crewmaster1]

I'm a med student planning on going into EM and would like to know what EM journal is the best for me to subscribe to as a med student?

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[EctopicFetus]

I wouldnt worry about this too much but if you really want to do some reading join SAEM and they supply the "Academic Emergency Medicine" journal for free.

 

[crewmaster1]

I'm not trying to do it because I am worried about not knowing enough or trying to impress people, I just think it would be fun and interesting to read an article or two out of each journal and look at the cool pictures! Hopefully lots of people will reply and we can get a general consensus on the best EM journal! Thanks. Todd

 

[mikecwru]

I'm not trying to do it because I am worried about not knowing enough or trying to impress people, I just think it would be fun and interesting to read an article or two out of each journal and look at the cool pictures! Hopefully lots of people will reply and we can get a general consensus on the best EM journal! Thanks. Todd

The more prestigious of the two major journals is Annals of Emergency Medicine (ACEP, the college) but Academic Emergnecy Medicine (SAEM) is good, too. Organizationally, I've always thought SAEM was a little bit more med student friendly, so that may be the better choice for you now (lots of "getting into residency stuff," advisorships, etc). There are lots of other smaller journals and smaller, but fiery organizations that you'll learn about later on.

mike

 

[12R34Y]

Join ACEP and you also get EMRA as well (they come coupled together). EMRA is super medical student friendly (take a look at the website). then you'll also get Annals of Emergency medicine. I like it by far over the other EM journals. Very clinically oriented and a nice read.

SAEM is also good, but Academic emergency medicine journal is much much more "academic" for lack of a better term. A lot of their research articles involve basic science and bench research. Depends on what you like reading more about........the mechanism of drug x on a rat model or the latest guidelines on Community Acquired pneumonia.

I'm generalizing, but i like Annals personally.

either is fine. it is just a personal preference.

later

 

[tiene dolor?]

playboy has ripping pictorials....OH! THAT kinda journal.... 😴

 

[jojo14]

As a student, I especially enjoy the little boxes Annals have with some articles where they talk about what is already known about this topic and how this article adds to it.

SAEM is definitely more student friendly as an organization- I don't think ACEP puts on a whole day for med students at its conference like SAEM does. AEM is pretty easy to read. But I think Annals is more mainstream. Both are pretty skimpy on pictures IMO.

 

[Jeff698]

I'm a fan of Outdoor Photographer but you probably meant EM journals.

I'll have to second (or third?) the vote for Annals. Pretty user friendly and not as much bench research. Of course, I probably shouldn't diss the one that published me in favor of the one that didn't. With that in mind, my vote is going back to Outdoor Photographer.

Take care,
Jeff

 

[atsai3]

I'm a med student planning on going into EM and would like to know what EM journal is the best for me to subscribe to as a med student?

Close call but I would say Annals is the "more prestigious" journal. Unless you have a specific reason for sending your article to AEM (e.g., it's a "methods" paper, or you know one of the associate editors), most of the researchers I know will send their papers to Annals first and then to AEM if it gets rejected at Annals. Annals tends to feature more policy-related work, but that may simply have to do with the fact that many of the RWJ-trained EM docs serve that journal in some kind of editorial capacity (e.g., Brent Asplin, Art Kellerman, David Magid, James Gordon, Michael Schull).

Cheers,
-AT.

 

[nuke laloosh]

I'm a med student planning on going into EM and would like to know what EM journal is the best for me to subscribe to as a med student?

As above ACEP/Annals is good and SAEM/Academic EM is boring. Also, AAEM/Journal of Emergency Medicine is not as prestigious as the first two but the most relevant clinically; and may be a bit easier read as a med student.

I wouldn't pay for a subscription, just use your library's. My residency pays my dues for all 3 organizations, so I have a free subscription to all of them.

 

[nachoDoc]

Here's a good freebie:

EM

🙂