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ACEM Fellowship Written study materials
ACEM Fellowship Written study resources

ACEM Fellowship Written study guide

ACEM Fellowship Written · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.

The Fellowship Written Examination is one component of the assessment pathway that leads to Fellowship of the Australasian College of Emergency Medicine (ACEM) and the FACEM qualification. It is intended for emergency medicine trainees who are progressing through the FACEM Training Program toward independent specialist practice. An important caveat applies to everything on this page. The College's dedicated written examination page could not be retrieved, and the material available does not enumerate the examination's content domains, structure, item counts, duration, or scoring. The only domain information available describes the exam's scope generically as Emergency Medicine, without further specification. No figure on this page should be treated as a confirmed current value; where a number is unknown it is shown as unavailable rather than estimated. Topics on this exam: Emergency Medicine (content domains not enumerated in source). The ACEM Fellowship Written study guide has 1 section and about 359 words.

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Emergency Medicine: Structured Assessment, Resuscitation Priorities and Safe Disposition

Emergency medicine questions reward a reproducible approach more than recall of rare syndromes. Anchor every stem with a primary survey: catastrophic haemorrhage control, airway patency and protection, breathing and ventilation, circulation with perfusion endpoints, disability including glucose and pupils, and exposure with temperature. Ask what is immediately life-threatening before asking what the diagnosis is. The commonest trap is premature pattern recognition: a stem describing a young adult with breathlessness invites asthma, but a silent chest, exhaustion, or rising carbon dioxide signals impending failure requiring senior help and ventilatory support rather than more nebulisers.

359 words, about 2 min

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  • Key termsTriage. The process of rapidly sorting patients by urgency so that limited resources are directed first to those with immediately life-threatening conditions, using physiological and presenting-complaint criteria.
  • Study planMap the exam blueprint by listing every major emergency medicine presentation area and weighting each by likely question volume.
  • Common mistakesCandidates treat each question as a pass/fail hurdle and become cognitively 'locked in' trying to retrieve an obscure detail, losing track of the marks-per-minute economics of a written paper where every sub-part carries allocated marks.
  • Exam-day guideBring the original government-issued photo ID in the name used on your registration.