Adaptation of the emergency medicine core content to a three-year residency core curriculum.

An outline of a didactic curriculum from the Core Content in Emergency Medicine is presented. The 430 hours of lecture are distributed over three years. Three new categories have been added to the Core Content as previously defined by the Graduate/Undergraduate Education Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians: drugs of emergency medicine, laboratory/radiology use in emergency medicine, and resident evaluation series. The benefits of this core curriculum are improved organization in educational format, better defined curricular guidelines for developing residencies, and standardized guidelines for individual topic assessment and review.