📘 **”The Complete EM Board Prep” – Your Path to Excellence in Emergency Medicine**
Welcome to the pinnacle of emergency medicine preparation! “The Complete EM Board Prep,” a meticulously designed, 1192-page masterpiece by Dr. Dwight Collman, MD, is your guide to prepare for board certification in emergency medicine.
🌟 **A Journey of Expertise**
This resource has a rich history dating back to 1989 when the groundbreaking “Oral Board Tutorial!” program took its first step. Since then, it has evolved organically to include the transformative 8-Day Interactive Review, Both are now wrapped into this latest edition. Dr. Collman, with 4+ decades of expertise, combines invaluable study advice with meticulously crafted clinical test items (TIs) tailored for the qualifying, oral, and ConCert™ examinations.
🔍 **A Balance of Comprehensiveness and Precision**
Dr. Collman’s mission is crystal clear – to strike a perfect balance between comprehensive content and laser-focused study materials. In the ever-evolving medical landscape, this text evolved in tandem. Its relevance extends beyond board certification, catering to all emergency medicine practitioners as it serves as an essential companion for clinical practice.
📚 **A Treasure Trove of Knowledge**
This invaluable resource employs a quick-reading format, offering pearls of wisdom spanning several chapters, rapid test items, detailed clinical test items, oral exam case simulations, pictorial items, and key outlines from the Study Guide. Dr. Collman’s years of dedication to creating medical illustrations enhance your understanding of complex pathophysiology.
🗺️ **A Journey of Excellence**
Section I offers an essential introduction that provides invaluable study advice, guiding you through the process of focusing and skillfully applying your clinical knowledge for the board examinations.
Section II contains hundreds of rapid test items meticulously categorized into various medical content areas, guiding you to excel in the qualifying and ConCert examinations.
Section III is additional dedicated space for comprehensive preparation for the ConCert exam, presenting clinically-oriented sample questions in intricate detail.
Section IV – the Oral Board Tutorial – demystifies the examination process, offering insights into his approach to each case simulation, case documentation, case interaction with the examiner, performance ratings and scoring criteria. Dr. Collman’s detailed examiner instructions guide you to maximize your case scores. Remember, he has been an oral/written exam item writer for two EM boards. He has also been employed to train examiners to present the oral examination.
Section V comprises 27 board-level case simulations, equipped with examiner notes, insights, and pearls, closely simulating the actual examination content.
Section VI offers pictorial test items that parallel the critical visual stimuli in the ABEM examinations.
Section VII includes Dr. Collman’s personal outlines, highlighting essential keywords, principles, and he includes updated drug dosing information throughout the text.
With 1192 pages of profound knowledge, “The Complete EM Board Prep” is your gateway to excellence. Dr. Dwight Collman, with decades of experience, is not just your author but your mentor, offering guidance, private tutoring , and support in your personal journey for certification, recertification and clinical excellence. His content will serve you well throughout your career.
Stay connected with Dr. Collman:
📧 Email: dwightcollman@emednation.com
📷 Instagram: @DwightCollmanMD
📱 Thread’s Account: @DwightCollmanMD
🌐 Website/blog: E-Med-Nation.blog
💼 LinkedIn: DwightCollmanMd
Your journey to board certification and excellence in emergency medicine begins today with “The Complete EM Board Prep”!
The Complete EM Board Prep!
1192 page training program for emergency physicians preparing for board certification.
$899.00
Current “The Complete Emergency Medicine Board Prep!”promotional discount pricing:
Promotional discount for residents-in-training. Please email a copy of a letter of verification from your residency program to DwightCollman@emednation.com. The complete preparation you need to prepare for certification in emergency medicine. 1192 pages. Written and illustrated by Dwight Collman, MD. This text is now available as of Nov 1, 2023.
Fee:
Standard: $899.00 U.S.
Promotional Discount Residents: $499.00 U.S.
The Complete Emergency Medicine Board Prep!
Discount for residents in training. Please email a copy of a letter of verification from your residency program to DwightCollman@emednation.com. The complete preparation you need to prepare for certification in emergency medicine. 1192 pages. Written and illustrated by Dwight Collman, MD. This text is now available as of Nov 1, 2023.
Clinical Emergency Physician
Prior Faculty for Midwestern University
EM Author/Educator/Medical Ilustrator
Expertise: EM Pathophysiology and physiology [both pediatric/adult]
Designer of a silicone membrane ECMO [extracorporeal membrane oxygenator]
By 2005 trained ⅓ of the world’s EPs for EM board certification
Trained Oral Examiners for a decade: the Board of Certification in Emergency Medicine [5000 original members...now the second largest EM group in the United States]; he was a compensated consultant for that and numerous other emergency medicine organizations.
All of Dr Collman’s presentations have been Co-sponsored AMA/ACEP category 1 CME ACCME accreditation through the AAPS, National and The Fl Chapter of ACEP and The Fl Medical Association since 1989.
Publisher of numerous EM manuals, and educational materials [all items were have copyrighted notices and have been sold by the ACEP Bookstore]; all authored by Dr Collman: 2 Vol program syllabus of thousands of Q/As and pathophysiology discussions of all chapters from eds 3-8 of “The Study Guide” [All chapters of the core content knowledge for completion of an emergency medicine residency]; teachs Resususcitation, CV Emergencies, Pulmonary Emergencies, The EKG lab [the 60 most important EKGs/management; Truama Emergencies, Pain Mgmt, Orthopedic Emergencies, Toxicology [Toxins and Antidotes, HEENT Emergies, Environmental Emergencies, Pediatric Emergencies [500 Q/As], HIV/AIDs-Infectious Diseases, Emergencies, Rhematologic Emergencies, Neurologic Emergencies, Acid-Base/ABG Presentation, Dermatological Emergencies, CT/POCUS [point of care ultrasound], Bariatric Emergencies, Endocrine Emergencies.
Dr Collman is endorsed by his programs participants [12,000+]
Examples: Dr James SULLIVAN MD DABEM; and others program participants described Dr Collman as a “National Treasure”
Dr Collman grandfathered into EM after completing a rotating Gen Surg Internship at UCLA School of Medicine [June 1981].
He accepted a directorship position at age 25, the contract to Illustrate “Emergency Management of Pediatric Trauma” [author:Thom Mayor MD FACEP] published by WB Saunders
Dr Collman provides strong intellectual support to his program attendees...many chose him to be their permanent career mentor and return annually to his live interactive conferences.
Dr Collman has designed computer-based programming to numerous organizations in ACLS algorithms [Univ of Pisstburgh]
He provides Interactive grand rounds as Case Simulations by invitation:
He designed an 8-h Visual Stimuli Presentation for Johns Hopkins Dept of EM [their board prep program;a second 8 hr presentation “The Genitourinary System-a Comprehensive 8-hour Review”; he teaches each program Johns Hopkins University.
He trained Examiners for the BCEM [AAPS] Atlanta GA: presented a combined certification review [both certification part I/orals] numerous time in Atlanta, Hawaii, Lake Tahoe, and Orlando, Fl 1991-1996.
He created their entire bard exam [part I and Oral Examination and a computer-operated Visual Examination [2 Versions] in 1996. This included 700 certification test items and 25 Oral Examination Live Test Simulations as well as trained their AAPS [BCEM Examiners twice a year for 10 years [throughout the 1990s]
Texts Authored Editor in Chief 4th-7th Ed of: “Pearls of Wisdom in Emergency Medicine [7 eds] and 35 Cds [33 are critical analysis of the 52 OBT Live CD set: audio recording made Live at Conference [cost $1515.00 (Oral Board Case studies)+ ASA/APAP toxicology CDs [each is 1 hour w/manual purchase price $65.00 for each + “CT Video: CT for the Emergency Physician”. Videotaped Live in Boca Raton, FL by Pear Productions
Publication Study Quote: “Dwight Collman MD DABEM DABFM Provides the most rigorous CME Education”...documented by EM News and EMRA [in 2002 ranked Dr Collman’s EM 8-Day Interactive Review! with the top 8 University or top ACEP chapter programs [an independent study they published for all of America’s Emergency Medicine Residents preparing for their board certification examinations.
2009 Jan Issue EM News Editor-in-chief ranked Dr Collman as the “premier educator for board preparation in the US”
Core Competencies:
Bedside Clinical Instructor all EM Medicine Clinical assessment/training EPs in all EM Procedures [over 90 procedures]
Core competency: illustrates human Anatomy as it pertains to EM/EM procedures [he does this Live and his clients request to keep his illustrations]
Dr Collman edited Emergency Management of Pediatric Trauma [while he illustrated this First-Ever Text devoted to Pediatric Trauma; he spent 2 years creating the illustrations for this text 1983-1985 and they were reproduced and resold by the publisher and appear in the Pediatric Trauma Capter of The Text: The Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine” Ed 1., author Ann Lattimer-Harwood-Nuss [now Professor Emeritus, retired].
Completed a Fellowship in Gen Anesthesia: University of Utah School of Medicine
Awarded 5 specialty rotations [mentorship programs in medical school:ICU
President: Collman Institute Inc [a Fl S-Corp] 1994-2007 .
Clinical practice x ~40 Yrs
ABEM certification
Life Fellow Am Board of Forensic Examiners
Trains EPs in triage/emergency Pt care/documentation to mitigate litigation risk
Has been awarded teaching contracts from over 400 US Hospitals
Trains EPs from every branch of the US Military since 1989 -first group included the CO of the Portsmouth, Va Naval residency [Michael Gonzalez MD FACEP who officially made the Oral Board Tutorial! As mandatory education to graduate his residency program in 1989.
I am a “trainer-educator, author, medical Illustrator”.
I have treated college students at no cost since the 1990s
Additional skills/competencies: Documentation [chart review consultatnt], Test item Writer [wrote the entire certification partI/part II examinations in 1996
Teach/train using interactivity/I teach the statistical/mathematical precognitive approach to physicians for pediatric IV fluid protocols for resuscitation, 3 forms of dehydration, burn fluid calculations + formula for airway [pulmonary burns] 52 simulations in 5 days; the role of the CANs/EXRs; I have a program syllabus for both of my CME programs
Program author/presenter: “The Clinical Documentation Of the Emergency Medicine Hospital Chart”, a 2-Day program conducted in Park City, Utah [1992]
As a Forensic Examiner he has reviewed and consulted emergency Physician defendants [approx 30 cases over 25 years]
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