The original CDEM Curriculum was developed in 2008 for fourth-year medical students. It featured the most common conditions a fourth-year student would encounter while rotating in the emergency department. In 2015, CDEM expanded the curriculum with third-year medical student and pediatric emergency medicine content. All three of these curricula are reviewed and updated by content experts every two to three years.
Curriculum content is designed to help medical students rotating in emergency medicine (EM) understand the basic core content that is pertinent to EM. The content follows the topics found in the published curricula for each type of clerkship:
- Report of the Task Force on National Fourth Year Medical Student Emergency Medicine Curriculum Guide
- Emergency Medicine Clerkship Curriculum: An Update and Revision
- Developing a Third-Year Emergency Medicine Medical Student Curriculum: A Syllabus of Content
- Implementing a Third-Year Emergency Medicine Medical Student Curriculum
SAEM and CDEM offer a testing service, SAEMTests, that features examinations developed from fourth-year and third-year curricular content.
CDEM also features several podcasts and other resources that are highly relevant for emergency medicine faculty, residents and students. These include:
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The CDEM Executive Committee
Note: The content of the former sites at cdemcurriculum.com and cdemcurriculum.org are now hosted by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine in which CDEM is an Academy. All links that were previously associated with these sites should redirect to this site. Please update your favorites or links provided to students to this new site.