This is Steve Carroll, and you're listening to First Ever E.M. Basic podcast. Thanks very much for listening.

This first podcast will just be a short introduction of who I am, what I'm trying to accomplish with this podcast, how to best use it, and some other resources that you may find useful.

First off, my name is Steve Carroll, and I'm a third-year EM resident with the Army at Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas.

I grew up in downtown Pennsylvania, which is a suburb just outside of Philadelphia,

and I was an EMTB there for about 10 years before I started residency.

I went to Notre Dame, go Irish, followed by a medical school at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. In my free time, I enjoy CrossFit,

skydiving, and playing with Nellie, a Rottweiler mix, whom my wife and I adopted recently from an

animal shelter. First off, a disclaimer, I'm obligated to mention this podcast does not represent the

user opinions of the Department of Defense, the U.S. Army, or my residency program. Now let's talk

about what I hope to accomplish with this

podcast. The mission of this is to talk about the very basics of emergency medicine. My target is

medical students rotating the ED and emergency medicine interns. What I will do in each podcast is to

start exactly how we start in the ED with the chief complaint. From there, I will talk about

the important parts of the history and physical, the workup, and some of the management and

disposition issues that you will encounter. Throughout the podcast, I'll sprinkle in some

clinical pearls and other random tidbits that will hopefully be helpful in your workups.

I created this podcast because I found that podcasts and audio lectures are the way which I learn most effectively.

It's very difficult for me to sit down and read an emergency medicine textbook like Rosenters and Tintinities for any length of time and get much out of it.

It's really not how I learn effectively.

Now, I will use these textbooks to read up on an interesting case or when I have a question, but as far as sitting down and

reading on a certain topic for an hour, yeah, I really can't do that myself.

Early in my intern year, I was introduced to EMRAP, which is an audio lecture series produced

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