Add-on Courses

Formerly known as pre/post-conference courses, educational add-ons are an excellent way to increase your total CME at AAEM25 and receive specialized instruction from experts in the field. Enhance your learning experience by including educational add-ons with your registration for the Scientific Assembly!

Sunday, April 6, 2025

Resuscitation for Emergency Physicians

7:30am – 5:00pm


Course Director: Michael E. Winters, MD MBA FAAEM

Resuscitation for Emergency Physicians (REP) is the first integrated resuscitation course developed by an emergency medicine professional society that is tailored to the needs of emergency physicians (EPs). REP encompasses a broad spectrum of topics and provides you with the knowledge and skillsets to expertly resuscitate conditions such as cardiac arrest, shock, respiratory failure, and life-threatening critical care disorders. EPs who want to take a single resuscitation course taught at an advanced level (rather than taking ACLS, PALS and ATLS) will find REP to be an outstanding experience. Quite simply, this course will help you save lives!

ED Management Solutions: Principles and Practice

8:00am – 4:45pm


Course Director: Joseph R. Twanmoh, MD MBA FAAEM

This course is an introduction to the principles and practice of ED management. You will take a deep dive into revenue cycles, change management, organizational psychology, and much more! Taught by leaders in ED operations management, you will put principles into practice through live workshops, including real life case studies, panel discussions, and patient satisfaction scenarios. ED Management Solutions is a prerequisite course to the AAEM Emergency Department Operations Certificate Course (EDOCC).

Battlefield Boarding: Military Medicine's Approach to Prolonged Casualty Care (presented by the Uniformed Chapter Division of AAEM)

8:00am – 5:00pm


Course Director: Juliette Conte, MD FAAEM

Emergency physicians provide life-saving resuscitation during the golden hour and far beyond. The Uniformed Services Chapter Division is proud to present Battlefield Boarding: Military Medicine’s Approach to Prolonged Casualty Care. As the nature of international conflict evolves, military emergency physicians are tasked with caring for patients far after the initial resuscitation while awaiting delayed medevac. Guided by military doctrine, experience, and evidence-based guidelines, our faculty will help you be ready to apply your emergency medicine skills to care for patients from initial stabilization through prolonged resuscitation. The course will include skill stations on whole blood transfusion, burn care, and simulation-based cases.

AAEM/RSA Introduction to Critical Care in Emergency Medicine (ICCEM) Course

1:00pm – 5:00pm


Course Directors: Matthew Carvey, MD and Ava Omidvar, MD, MPH, FP-C

Note: Most of the course will take place online from February 2 – March 30, 2025 with a hands-on session taking place on April 6, 2025 at Scientific Assembly. Registration is open November 4, 2024 – January 6, 2025.

Learn More and Register Here

Early critical interventions are essential in the Emergency Department, especially if you work in primary treatment centers and rural Emergency Departments. This course is designed to prepare third- and fourth-year medical students and EM interns to provide critical care to ICU-bound patients who are transitioning to a higher-level of care. Our goal is to ensure you are equipped to provide consistent, evidence-based care with the most up-to-date and relevant knowledge applicable to these fields.

Medical Student Session: Day 1

1:00pm – 5:00pm


Course Director: Jake Graff

Medical students, join us to learn about emergency medicine and see if it’s the
specialty for you! This is the second day of a two-day session (Sunday afternoon and Monday morning). Each day features something new, so we encourage you to attend both days to make the most of your experience. We hope to see you there!

Monday, April 7, 2025

Advanced ECG Interpretation: Pearls and Pitfalls

8:00am – 12:00pm


Course Directors: Amal Mattu, MD FAAEM and William Brady, MD FAAEM

The ability to interpret the electrocardiogram (ECG) is a life-saving skill. This course will cover an assortment of presentations that will improve the emergency physician’s ability to interpret ECGs. Residency graduates and/or seasoned physicians will learn new and useful information that will truly make a difference in patient care and save lives!

ED Operations Certificate Course (EDOCC) 2025-26 Kickoff

8:00am – 12:00pm


Course Director: Joseph R. Twanmoh, MD MBA FAAEM

The Emergency Department Operations Certificate Course (EDOCC) is a hybrid course with online and in-person modules that teach you the fundamentals of ED Operations and boost ED management expertise. The course will kick off with a half-day session at AAEM25 in Miami, Florida and wrap up with a half-day session at AAEM26 in Seattle, Washington, with 8 virtual sessions in between. Visit the EDOCC website to view the webinar schedule.

ED Management Solutions: Principles and Practice is a pre-requisite course for EDOCC.

The Emergency Department Operations Certificate Course will cover topics in areas of:

  • Understanding and improving ED overcrowding, boarding, throughput, and patient flow
  • Developing and implementing time sensitive clinical care delivery systems, managing physicians, PA’s, and NP’s with respect to professional behavior
  • Driving and improving patient satisfaction;
  • All while maintaining one’s clinical skills and staying abreast of emerging technology, pharmacology, and medical diagnosis and treatment
MyEMCert Review Course

8:00am – 12:00pm


Course Directors: Laura J. Bontempo, MD, MEd; Michael Silverman, MD FAAEM; and Michael E. Winters, MD MBA FAAEM

MyEMCert is here! This ABEM assessment includes eight presentation-based modules grouped by content. The assessment is open book, but beware: Each module includes the Key Advances, which do not necessarily share the same topic as the module. To alleviate any anxiety about the new assessment, AAEM is pleased to offer this fully in-person, in-depth review of high-yield topics and pearls for the MyEMCert Exam, including the Key Advances. World-class faculty will cover the content you can expect to see on the assessment and answer your questions. No fluff, anecdotes, or esoteric material—just the content you NEED to know!

Ultrasound – Beyond the Basics Course – Austere, Critical Care, and Advanced Applications

8:00am – 12:00pm


Course Directors: Katharine Burns, MD, FAAEM; Christine Butts, MD FAAEM; and Eric Chin, MD, MBA, FAAEM

Are you looking for hours of hands-on practice to refine your skills in emergency ultrasound, critical care ultrasound, or how to use ultrasound in austere environments? This beyond-the-basics ultrasound workshop provides a choose-your-own-adventure style course that is appropriate for beginners and advanced ultrasound users.

Emergency Vaginal Delivery: Are You Prepared?

10:00am – 12:00pm


Course Director: Joelle Borhart, MD FAAEM

Precipitous deliveries are one of the most stressful events an emergency physician will encounter. Fortunately, most deliveries will be normal, uncomplicated vaginal deliveries, but what if it’s not? Complications such as shoulder dystocia and breech presentation have the potential to be true catastrophes for the patient, the baby, and the physician. In this session the speaker will review the management of normal vaginal delivery, nuchal cord, breech presentation, and shoulder dystocia so you are ready the next time there is a baby coming in your ED!

Medical Student Session Day 2

8:00am – 12:00pm


Course Director: Jake Graff

Medical students, join us to learn about emergency medicine and see if it’s the
specialty for you! This is the second day of a two-day session (Sunday afternoon and Monday morning). Each day features something new, so we encourage you to attend both days to make the most of your experience. We hope to see you there!

ED Operations Certificate Course (EDOCC) 2024-25 Wrap-up (closed session)

1:00pm – 5:00pm


Course Director: Joseph R. Twanmoh, MD MBA FAAEM

This is a closed session for participants of the 2023-2024 EDOCC cohort. If you are interested in EDOCC, please register for the ED Operations Certificate Course (EDOCC) 2025-26 Kick-off course.