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ArticleAEM education and training2024

Weighing the gold standard: The breadth of emergency medicine core content covered by textbooks.

Carl Preiksaitis, Amana Nawaz, Alaa Ousta, Cassandra Mackey

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Carl PreiksaitisDepartment of Emergency Medicine Stanford School of Medicine Stanford California USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3856-0068
Amana NawazDepartment of Emergency Medicine Duke University School of Medicine Durham North Carolina USA.
Alaa OustaDepartment of Emergency Medicine Duke University School of Medicine Durham North Carolina USA.
Cassandra MackeyDepartment of Emergency Medicine UMass Chan Medical School Worcester Massachusetts USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1988-1173

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Textbooks are often considered the criterion standard in medical education, but there is a growing preference for free open-access medical education (FOAM) content among learners. Despite FOAM's appeal, these resources often fall short in covering core content as comprehensively as the American Board of Emergency Medicine's 2019 Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine (MCPEM), thereby sustaining the recommendation for textbook use. However, textbooks have limitations, such as how quickly content can become outdated. Notably, there is no evaluation of the comprehensiveness of emergency medicine (EM) textbooks in the literature. Methods: This observational cross-sectional study compared Results: Conclusions: Both

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PMCPMC11099702

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