EM Cases

Now in its sixteenth year, Emergency Medicine Cases (EM Cases) continues to set the global standard for free, open-access emergency medicine education. As a leading voice in the FOAMed movement, EM Cases delivers high-quality, evidence-based podcasts, written summaries, quizzes, and videos designed to enhance learning for emergency providers across all levels of training and practice.

This year marks an exciting evolution for EM Cases with the development of the EM Cases Coaching App, a personalized learning platform that adapts to each learner’s needs. Built on the principles of spaced repetition and multimodal learning, the app offers individualized feedback, curated learning targets, and reinforcement over time to consolidate clinical knowledge and decision-making skills. Designed for physicians, residents, and other EM providers, the app will create a truly adaptive learning experience that evolves with the user’s progress.
 

To continue broadening the scope and diversity of EM Cases content, we are bringing on two Deputy Directors who will help lead new learning streams, strengthen collaborations, and expand mentorship opportunities within the EM Cases ecosystem. This expansion reflects our commitment to sustainability, inclusivity, and educational excellence as we move into the next phase of growth.

EM Cases remains an indispensable part of emergency medicine education worldwide with nearly 25 million podcast listens to date from Canada, United States, UK, Europe, Australia and India. Through main episode podcasts, EM Quick Hits podcasts, EM Cases Summit events, ECG Cases ECG interpretation learning system, Global EM blog, video review series and expanding multimedia resources, clinicians continue to credit EM Cases for shaping how they practice and teach emergency medicine.

The most powerful measure of impact comes from the clinicians who use EM Cases in their daily practice:

“Hi Anton,
I'm an anesthetist in Ontario that does some EM work. I listened to your MHP 2.0 podcast on the way into work today because I recently had an MHP and wanted to do it better. I just came from an MHP in the middle of the night in an OR (3 L of blood in the belly for a take-back laparotomy after a laparoscopic appendectomy) and this one went a lot better. I believe it saved the patient’s life… By the time we left the OR, I had the patient off pressors entirely and transferred a stable patient to the ICU. Thank you very much for your easy-to-digest update on MHP – it made a huge difference.”

“I’ve been following EM Cases for years, did the virtual Summit during the pandemic and just wanted to say what an amazing job you guys do. It’s wild to me that you put out such high-yield content every month for free. Just finished a recent Quick Hits and learned more about pediatric torticollis than I ever learned even during my peds emerg rotation. I’ve been in practice for 16 years and I still learn so much from you guys.”

“Hi Anton,
I just wanted to thank you for producing these podcasts. They are amazing. Your guests are incredible and the topics are well explained and very memorable. As a new ER doc in Ontario, I loved listening to your series about time management, cognitive load, and working through difficult non-trauma resuscitation cases.”
 

EM Cases continues to contribute significantly to SREMI through donations, advertising revenue, and proceeds from the EM Cases Summit, supporting SREMI’s mission to advance emergency medicine education and research.

As we look ahead, EM Cases is transforming from a podcast into a comprehensive adaptive learning system, blending world-class educational content, interactive coaching, and community engagement to empower emergency providers to deliver the best possible patient care.