Board Review Resources

  • FOAM

    • CoreEM  – Great core content blog posts and podcasts.

    • Board Bombs- Solid content. Free (mostly). Airway module, podcast, study guide. Also a Q-bank with podcast Q&A. ($150/year).

    • EM Basic – Great podcast for junior resident to get their feet wet with emergency medicine thinking. Great review sheets.

    • FOAMCast – Entertaining, short blasts of core content, with a few board review questions from Rosh Review included accompanying blog posts.

    • EM Cases – Is a treasure trove of EM core content. A good place to start is their EM Cases Summaries.

    • emDocs  – An ever expanding series of high yield core content articles, with a review card style question bank to boot.

    • Stemlyns Blog and Podcast – A great mix of core review and advance topics from our friends from across the pond.

    • Content Aggregators / MOOCs:

      • ALiEMU – Offers a great material via it’s Capsules series focused on pharmacology and AIR series composed on monthly high yield FOAM topics with board review style questions

      • Foambase.org – A searchable database of FOAM resources organized by category, learner level, media type.

    • Review Card Based

      • EMupdates.com – 1412 board review “EMCards” on core content emergency medicine topics by Dr. Reuben Strayer. I know people who have downloaded them and put them in an idevice flashcard app

  • FOAMish (free to EMRA members):

    • EMRAP – Fantastic core content podcast. Review sheets and, little known, 20 board review questions a month!

    • EMedHome – Great monthly free podcast by Amal Mattu (all topics) and access to many core topic review lectures.

    • EBMedicine.net –  Review articles on core EM topics with review/board questions at the end of each article.

  • Not FOAM: