The library · Emergency Medicine (ABEM)

65 reviewed clinical cases and 46 stations, each written to end someone's night.

Not topics — cases. Each clinical case has a patient who changes, findings you have to earn, critical actions on a deadline, and at least one way to lose them. The communication, procedure and ultrasound stations run the same way and are graded on their own rubric — how you say it, how you walk it, what you find. Here is the shape of it, by track, without the answers.

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Clinical

65 cases

Undifferentiated presentations across the emergency-medicine content areas — each a patient who changes, on a deadline.

Respiratory15Infectious Disease11Pediatric10Abdominal & GI9Cardiovascular9Endocrine & Metabolic9Toxicology9Urologic7Environmental6Neurologic6Obstetric & Gynecologic5Trauma5Hematology & Oncology3Vascular3Allergy & Immunology2Psychobehavioral1

Counts overlap — a single case often spans more than one area.

CPC / Communication

26 stations

Communication stations — breaking bad news, the difficult conversation, defusing conflict — graded on how you say it.

Procedures

13 stations

Procedural walk-throughs: the sequence, the landmarks, the complication you have to catch.

Ultrasound

7 stations

The exam's ultrasound station: explain the study, direct the probe and the machine, describe the anatomy, read the finding.

111Reviewed cases & stations65 clinical cases · 26 communication stations · 13 procedure stations · 7 ultrasound stations
64Cannot-missClinical cases tagged as a diagnosis that kills if missed
NoneOn-screen countdownThe examiner brings each case to a close when it has run its course.
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