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Being a Lifelong Learner in Emergency Medicine

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Being a lifelong learner in emergency medicine (EM) is something each EM physician needs to take seriously. Luckily, there is a wide variety of tools and options available to help us along our lifelong learning journey. This chapter aims to identify and introduce some of these tools.

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  1. Advent Health East Orlando, Orlando, FL, USA

    Andrew Little

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  1. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Robert P. Olympia

  2. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Elizabeth Barrall Werley

  3. Emergency Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

    Jeffrey S. Lubin

  4. MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, NJ, USA

    Kahyun Yoon-Flannery

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Little, A. (2023). Being a Lifelong Learner in Emergency Medicine. In: Olympia, R.P., Werley, E.B., Lubin, J.S., Yoon-Flannery, K. (eds) An Emergency Physician’s Path. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47873-4_90

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