UK accident and emergency medicine: Web Resources

CEM are supporting this area to encourage the easy exchange of ideas and information across our EM community.

Please note that the views and opinions within this area are those of the originators and not of CEM. The material is provided and maintained by members of the site and has not been externally screened or verified. Please use the Feedback form accessable via the bottom option of the drop down box from Shared Resources if you have any suggestions or you discover anything inaccurate or inappropriate on the site.

This area represents an evolving, real-time collection of peer filtered resources from members registered with the website and is provided to share the benefits of our collective time and labours.

Departments and individuals across the country face many similar challenges

- producing teaching presentations/ CDU guidelines/ developing care pathways etc. Clinical Topic Reviews are continually being done and the information disseminated locally &/or submitted for the FCEM exam - they represent a significant resource for our Speciality and deserve a wider audience. The Shared Resources area helps fulfil these needs.

Being able to share our work and access others will save unecessary duplication of work, increase efficiency, improve our services and allow the released time and effort to be invested in new projects or expansion. The area is a place to deposit our own work and to access the work of others to catalyse our ideas and act as building blocks for our own projects. Material does not need to be in a final format or complete - if it may save someone else work or give them access to a useful resource then it is appropriate.

The benefits are

• A wider audience for our ideas by individuals facing the same challenges as ourselves.
• Reduction of wasted effort in building projects up from scratch allowing more time to be spent on extending and improving the overall creation.
• Enhanced cross-fertilisation of ideas and benefiting from peer-appraisal, critique and suggestions for our work.
• An area which may direct future developments and act as a starting point for more formal work or guidelines.

Open-source programmers have tapped the potential of sharing and learning from each other and proven it works - so can we.

Inherent to the success of this project is your involvement by providing material and giving feedback on work you access or suggesting improvements and additions to the structure and function of the area. Please use the Feedback form accessable via the bottom option of the drop down box from Shared Resources or the contact link from within pages if you have any ideas.

Use the site to share your work and encourage your colleagues to so that we can pass the critical threshold where it becomes self-sustaining and reflects our current thoughts and fulfils our needs.

To deposit material you will need to have registered with the CEM website and be logged in with your username and password. On logging in an extra selection-box My Portfolio becomes visible at the top left of the screen. Select this and Shared Resources from within it. Acknowledge the disclaimer which will be shown on your first use of the area only and then click the Add document button to access a browse facility (5Mb per document limit). Use the drop-down menu to identify the relevant section - and complete the boxes to aid future indexing and searching.  Originators and the Web Team can edit and remove material, other members and the public can view and download it.  If you wish to submit material to be added without a login please forward it to the site administrator using (10mb Limit)."

To access material select the relevant section from the drop-down menu accessed by selecting Shared Resources and browse the table - this can be ordered via Topic/Author/Date added by clicking the top of the relevant table. Please feedback any suggestions for the site or specific points about material contained via the Feedback form accessable via the bottom option of the drop down box from shared resources or via the contact links within pages.