e of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). They have a special student rate and when becoming a member you also get free Emergency Medicine Resident's Assocaition (EMRA) membership. These two groups have a lot of fabulous resources for medical students interested in Emergency Medicine. One of the most 
helpful for me has been the annual residency fairs where programs from all over the country get together at a national conference and chat with you. You get some sweet trauma sheers, Frisbees, carabiners and all sorts of EM branded goodies, but most of all you get the face to face time with program directors and current residents. The next upcoming residency fair is in Chicago at the end of October during the Scientific Assembly. (Follow the links in this blog posting for more details on all this. Remember, these posts to the blog go out in email to the list, but sometimes the links don't translate to email).Recently ACEP and EMRA have added some new PR to their repertoire which was quite alternative. FACEBOOK! Yep.... even if you are not a member yet, cruise over t
o their new ACEP Facebook site. They are really excited to get new members and students involved and they are giving away a SWEET T-SHIRT to people that post on their wall, but supplies are very limited. check out the photo to the right. While you are there, check out the EMRA Facebook site too. Here in the Pacific Northwest we are very limited in our exposure to the specialty of Emergency Medicine and although we have worked hard these past years trying to improve that, this is yet another way to connect and contact EM people out in the rest of the country. I have met many of the people you see on these Facebook pages at national conferences and all are very cool. When it comes to residency applications, every time your name and face show up it helps get you remembered. So, check out the new pages if you have time and get yourself a sweet new shirt. -Noel Hastings
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I love my shirt, but my wife is embarrassed by it.
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