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NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2012 VOLUME XXVII NUMBER 6

ETHICSIN ACTION:Honoring Patients’“Autonomous”Requests

ACADEMICRESIDENTSECTIONPhysician Advocacy &Emergency Medicine

Jo Anna Leuck, MDCarolinas Medical Center

To lead the advancement of emergency care through education and research, advocacy, and professional development in academic emergency medicine.

SAEM STAFFExecutive DirectorRonald S. MoenExt. 212, rmoen@saem.org

Director of Information Services & AdministrationJames PearsonExt. 225, jpearson@saem.org

AccountantMai Luu, MSAExt. 208, mluu@saem.org

Accounting AssistantChristopher IbrahimExt. 207, cibrahim@saem.org

Education CoordinatorTricia FryExt. 213, tfry@saem.org

Executive Administrative AssistantMichelle IniguezExt. 206, miniguez@saem.org

Grants CoordinatorMelissa McMillianExt. 203, mmcmillian@saem.org

Marketing & Membership ManagerHolly Gouin, MBAExt. 210, hgouin@saem.org

Meeting CoordinatorMaryanne Greketis, CMPExt. 209, mgreketis@saem.org

Membership AssistantGeorge GreavesExt. 211, ggreaves@saem.org

Systems Administrator/Data AnalystMichael ReedExt. 205, mreed@saem.org

ReceptionistVicki DalyExt. 201, vdaly@saem.org

AEM STAFFEditor in ChiefDavid C. Cone, MDdavid.cone@yale.edu

Journal EditorKathleen SealKgseal@comcast.net

Journal ManagerSandi Arjonasandrak.arjona@gmail.com

SAEM MEMBERSHIP

Membership Count as of October 29, 2012

2012-2013 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

AAAEM 68

Active 2,471

Emeritus 32

Fellows 46

Honorary 7

International Affiliates 8

Medical Students 166

Residents 2,518

Total 5,362

Cherri D. Hobgood, MDPresident

Alan E. Jones, MDPresident-Elect

Deborah B. Diercks, MD, MScSecretary-Treasurer

Debra E. Houry, MD, MPHPast President

Brigitte M. Baumann, MD, DTM&H, MSCEAndra L. Blomkalns, MDD. Mark Courtney, MD

Robert S. Hockberger, MDBrent R. King, MD

Sarah A. Stahmer, MDBrandon Maughan, MD, MHS, Resident Member

The SAEM Newsletter is published bimonthly by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and

do not necessarily reflect those of SAEM.

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HIGHLIGHTS

4 President’s Message

5 Executive Director’s Message

6 Member Highlight

8 Academic Resident Section

10 Ethics in Action

11 SAEM Website Redesign

14 EM Resident Job Market

19 Academic Announcements

20 Calls and Meeting Announcements

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Program Committee ChairChristopher Ross, MD

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGEFINDING VALUE IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH SAEM Cherri D. Hobgood, MDIndiana University School of Medicine

Most of you probably don’t know that this summer I had an unexpected illness that slowed me down substantially. While I would not wish illness on anyone, this downtime came with certain unanticipated benefits; one of them was time to think. So, I spent a lot of time thinking about SAEM and the value of SAEM to our members.

How do our members value SAEM? As an individual and a leader, I see tremendous value in the organization, but I wonder if all

of our members feel the same way. For me, SAEM has provided mentorship, meaningful work, open dialogue with colleagues, leadership opportunities, and fellowship. It has provided me with the opportunity to present my research and have it vetted and improved upon by the comments of my peers. Yet as a leader in SAEM, I often hear from members, “why should I join?”, “what has SAEM done for me lately?”, “how will SAEM forward ‘me’ and ‘my agenda’?” My thoughts on this are many but perhaps the most salient is a twist on the famous JFK quote “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” So, I ask you to begin to reframe your thinking on this topic and “ask not what SAEM can do for you, ask what you can do for SAEM.” Now, let me explain my thinking through the only lens I have, that of observation and personal experience.

SAEM is an organization of individuals united by a common goal, to improve the quality, and scope of Academic Emergency Medicine. Collectively, the organization functions because individuals donate their time and talent to create value within this domain. We work on projects that, while typically identified as a need by the Board, resonate with the committee members as important and valuable to the discipline, specifically academics. Our most successful projects and collaborations have been driven by this need to fill gaps that make life in academic EM better, stronger, and more fulfilling. These gaps were identified by you, the members – the individuals who are struggling with these needs in your daily life. They are brought to your colleagues and leadership as an issue and collectively we craft a solution. Our

ongoing Grant Writing Workshop is a great example. The problem: EM faculty had a difficult time identifying meaningful instruction, feedback, and mentorship in grant writing skills. Solution: the SAEM Grant Writing Workshop, allows successful EM faculty to teach and mentor others in a collegial setting with specific focus on individual work. This kind of program has been driven by member needs and the hard work of other members to make this program a success. We did not hire a staff person, an outside consultant, or go to another organization. We pulled together and did it. Through the work of developing the program, preparing the content, and reviewing others grants, every one of those faculty members got better, stronger, and more expert. They personally grew through the work they willingly gave on behalf of the Society. They were enriched by their willingness to give to the organization and SAEM gave back.

As we look forward to the future of SAEM, ask yourself, “where are the gaps in my academic life?”; “am I the only one with this experience?”; “who are my colleagues and what is my network to solve this issue?”; “how can my volunteer work through SAEM help me resolve this problem? Not just for me, but with others who share my passion.” I promise that if you begin to reframe your contributions to SAEM in this manner you will begin a relationship with the organization that is fruitful, and rich in value. The growth you will personally experience will result in greater successes at your home institutions and within SAEM. With this, I am confident that the value of membership will be clear because you will understand that SAEM is not a static organization but one that changes, grows and provides its maximum value to those who give.

My personal thanks go out to all of those who stepped up during my recent illness and suspension of my duties as SAEM President. The talents of the Board of Directors, and particularly the President-Elect Alan Jones, are responsible for ensuring that the function of SAEM did not miss a beat during the summer. You have my heartfelt gratitude and respect for your support of me and your professionalism in support of the organization well outside your anticipated duties. Thank you. ◗

Cherri D. Hobgood, MD

Why should you become an SAEM Committee or Task Force Member?

You believe in SAEM’s mission statement: “To lead the advancement of emergency care through education and research, advocacy, and professional development in academic emergency medicine.”

You wish to assist in defining the future practice of your specialty. The academic mission is a special and unique pursuit, critical to the future of our specialty and the patients we serve. We are responsible for training the next generation of EM clinicians and academicians. We define the future practice of our specialty through the work of our members, both with SAEM activities and at our academic institutions.

You have special knowledge/skills or interests in a Committee/Task Force work area. Sometimes more junior members in the Society are afraid to volunteer because they “lack expertise” in an area. However, if you have the time, are willing to do the work, and have a passion for that area, you represent exactly what a Committee/Task Force really needs.

If you are interested, please visit the SAEM website and fill out the Committee & Task Force Interest form. Deadline for submission is December 3, 2012.

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGEI recently returned from the American

College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly in Denver and was once again, impressed by the breadth and depth of the work of emergency physicians. After participating in the SAEM Annual Meeting in May, it was interesting to see the differences between the two meetings and to recognize the unique role that SAEM plays in this specialty. During our time in Denver, the SAEM Board of Directors held a two day meeting that covered a

wide variety of topics. One of the highlights was the first meeting of the new, Committee of Academy Leaders, with the Board of Directors. Composed of the Chairs and Chair Elects of each of our eight Academies, the group will meet on a regular basis to deal with issues related to academy membership, sharing of expertise, and developing new programs and services to academy members and potentially all members of SAEM. The Committee will be facilitated by SAEM’s Immediate Past President, currently Dr. Deb Houry.

The SAEM Foundation Board of Trustees also met during the ACEP meeting. They approved the purchase of new software to enhance our ability to track and recognize contributions to the Foundation. They also approved enhanced levels of recognition and approved adding a part time staff person to work exclusively in the development of the Foundation. We’ll have more information about the work of the Foundation and activities related to the Foundation at the Annual Meeting in Atlanta and in future issues of the Newsletter.

During the ACEP meeting, many of the SAEM Academies, Committees, Task Forces and Interest Groups met in person to continue their work on behalf of the members. As your new Executive Director, I continue to be impressed by the dedication and work of our groups and the scope and commitment of our members to advance the specialty. Also during this time, our President, Dr. Cherri Hobgood and I had a chance to meet with the EMRA Board of Directors and their Council of Representatives. Residents are so involved with SAEM, and in making contributions to the quality of the SAEM Annual Meeting, so it was a great opportunity to meet with them to discuss future initiatives. In

addition we had an opportunity to meet with the leadership of the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Elsewhere in this Newsletter you will find references to the work of ABEM. The Program Committee for SAEM’s Annual Meeting has been hard at work evaluating the didactic presentations that were submitted in record numbers again this year. We’re scrambling to make sure we have sufficient room in Atlanta to present all of those didactic sessions that have been approved by the Committee. Notifications to those accepted will be coming out shortly.

This is the first issue of our new print Newsletter. In response to member’s requests, the Board decided to return to both the print and on-line format of the SAEM Newsletter to further improve communication with members. We hope you like this approach of enhanced communication, and would love to hear your comments. Please send us an email at: newsletter@saem.org

Elsewhere in this issue you will also find an update on the redesign of the SAEM website and the plans for utilization of state of the art software for community/collaboration tools. While list serves may never go out of style for some uses, collaboration tools provide a much better venue for enhanced communication, ability to post and comment on various content and make modifications and edits to a single document in a way that allows the authors and others to see the variations and changes easily. Because of the launch of the new web site later this year, we will open registration for the 2013 Annual Meeting in early January. We have a new “mini-site” for the Annual Meeting that incorporates many of the features that you have requested in the past, and both the main site and the Annual Meeting site are based on “reactive” design, so it can be viewed on a lap top, tablet, phone and other devices. As with many things in life, a total redesign of a web site is a work in progress, so even after the launch later this year, we will be “tweaking” the site to enhance its usability and rectify any issues that arise.

Please note that the call for nominations for the Board of Directors is now posted on the web site, as is the Committee and Task Force interest form. The deadlines for submission of these forms are December 3, 2012 for the Committee & Task Force interest form and December 7, 2012 for the Board Nominations.

Best wishes for the upcoming Holidays and for a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year. – Ron ◗

Ronald S. Moen

Call for 2013-2014 SAEM Board of Director Nominations

Nominations are sought for the SAEM elections that will be held in the spring of 2013. The Nominating Committee will select a slate of nominees based on the following criteria: previous service to SAEM,

leadership potential, interpersonal skills and the ability to advance the broad interests of the membership and academic emergency medicine. Interested members, please visit the SAEM website and

submit your nomination form.

Deadline for submission is December 7, 2012.

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The first giant that I had the honor of being trained by and then working for is John Marx. He was one of the primary reasons that I decided to move from Texas to Charlotte, North Carolina to complete an Emergency Medicine residency. He was also the primary reason that I was able to stay on at Carolinas Medical Center after residency to become the Director of Simulation for the department of Emergency Medicine. Through his support, my faculty colleagues and I have been able to help create a robust simulation curriculum for the residents and students that utilizes multiple simulation modalities to bring realistic scenarios to the learners. Thanks to the support of Dr. Marx, and his commitment to both simulation specifically and education in general, that group of learners has expanded beyond the Department of Emergency Medicine and now includes essentially all of the interns and medical students in our entire hospital.

More than crafting the path that my career has taken, Dr. Marx’s compassion and wisdom helped mold me into the teacher and clinician that I am becoming. He was larger than life, yet truly a friend to myself and the other faculty and residents. I miss him every day and when I walk into the department or face a difficult decision or situation, I try to model my actions by what he would have done.

The second giant whose shoulders I have stood on is Jeff Kline. Dr. Kline convinced me that I did not have to take a traditional path in educational leadership, but that I could create my own through a combination of research and scholarship. He puts the same passion that he has for excellence in clinical research into the pursuit and development of quality educational research projects. Much of what I know about research, writing and teaching I learned from Jeff Kline. I also watched him honor his commitment to his family equal to his career and he inspired me to do the same. I have a wonderful husband and a three-year old daughter who are my heart and keep me passionate about my work.

Finally, SAEM, as a whole, has been a giant in my career. As a young faculty member, I was given the opportunity to serve on the Program Committee for SAEM. This rich experience has given me a behind-the-scenes view of the mission and workings of this organization. Each decision made by this committee is truly made to reflect the mission and to provide a useful and fulfilling meeting for the members. I have been able to witness some amazing leadership on the committee and have gotten to develop

leadership skills of my own as the Co-Chair of the Innovations (formerly known as Innovations in Emergency Medicine Education or IEME) Committee. Each year we have tried to add new venues and opportunities for educators to demonstrate their innovations, and each year I am amazed at the quality and variety of projects that are submitted.

SAEM has also given me the resources to make a long-time goal for continued education and scholarship come to life. In July of 2012, I became the first recipient of the SAEM Educational Fellowship Grant (EFG). This grant is allowing me to pursue a Master’s of Healthcare Education Degree through the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School. I started classes this summer and have already begun to apply educational principles to ongoing curricular and simulation projects.

The grant is also allowing me to spend dedicated time enacting a research protocol that I, in collaboration with other researchers and educators, have been developing over the last two years. The project will try to answer the question of how fatigue, specifically following multiple, sequential overnight shifts affects one’s clinical performance. The study subjects are PGY-3 residents, who will be participating in high-fidelity simulation scenarios, as a marker of clinical performance. This will be a cross-over study comparing performance in three states: pre-day shift, post-single overnight shift and post-multiple overnight shifts. Whether the findings of this study are positive or negative, the results will be useful, not just to residents, or even just to Emergency Medicine, but to all clinicians that do shiftwork.

Finally, the grant is allowing me focused mentoring from the Carolinas Center for Faculty Excellence, which specializes in educational excellence, as well as a dedicated mentorship team that includes experts in research, simulation and fatigue and sleep studies. I sincerely thank SAEM and those that donate towards its endeavors for making me the steward of the grant and opportunities mentioned above, and I plan to honor that investment by continuing to pursue the mission of the Society. ◗

MEMBER HIGHLIGHT

Jo Anna Leuck, MD

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulder of giants.” Sir Isaac Newton

Writing this essay caused me to reflect and consider my academic career thus far, and everything about the path and what I have learned and accomplished along the way can be credited to certain individuals and experiences that have shaped me.

JoAnna and Dylan

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SAEM PAST-PRESIDENT PROFILEWILLIAM G. BARSAN, MDCharissa Pacella, MDDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh

In profiling SAEM Past Presidents, one aim is to elucidate the role SAEM played in their career growth and opportunities. For Dr. Bill Barsan (SAEM President, 1991-1992) a better focus might be the role he played in the development of SAEM.

Dr. Barsan attended medical school at the Ohio State University (MD, 1972) and entered the nascent field of emergency medicine as a resident at the University

of Cincinnati after 2 years training in surgery and radiology. He completed his post-graduate training in 1979 and stayed on in Cincinnati’s faculty, intent on building an academic career.

Early mentors encouraged him to join the University Association of Emergency Medicine (UAEM), which was “the place to be”, for research in emergency medicine. Dr. Barsan notes that in the early 1980s there were more surgeons than emergency physicians as members of UAEM. He was told “they will accept almost any animal study” and later found that to be “pretty much true.” UAEM in the 1980s was also key in uniting a small but growing community of physicians seeking to promote research in emergency medicine.

Dr. Barsan continued his participation with UAEM including committee leadership, and was also active in the Society of Teachers of Emergency Medicine (STEM). After SAEM was established in 1989 by the amalgamation of UAEM and STEM, Dr. Barsan went on to becomethe third president of SAEM during

1991-1992. He recalls the early years of SAEM as a joining of academic leaders in emergency medicine with a common goal: to promote the academic credibility of the specialty.

In 1992, Dr. Barsan accepted a position as Section Head of Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan. Emergency Medicine at the time in Michigan was within the Department of Surgery, common in many other academic institutions. Under Dr. Barsan’s leadership, Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan became an independent department in 1999.

Dr. Barsan’s career is distinguished by many subsequent leadership and consulting roles as well. He served as President of the American Board of Emergency Medicine (1998-1999) and President of the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine (2006-2007.) He made important contributions to the evidence-based care of patients with acute stroke and served as a national advisor. He is also distinguished in being one of the few emergency medicine physicians elected to the Institute of Medicine (2003). He is currently PI for the Clinical Coordinating Center for the NIH-funded Neurologic Emergencies Treatment Trial (NETT) network.

Reflecting on SAEM’s accomplishments over the last 20 years, Dr. Barsan is most proud of the organizational initiatives that have promoted professional academic values. SAEM is a leader among academic organizations, notably in limiting industry presence at scientific meetings and creating formal conflict of interest disclosure. In Dr. Barsan’s own words, “we had a vision for what SAEM should be and that has been realized.” ◗

William G. Barsan, MD

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED, PLEASE CONTACT MICHELLE INIGUEZ AT MINIGUEZ@SAEM.ORG OR 847/813-9823, EXT. 206.

Your program is invited to participate in the SAEM Residency & Fellowship Fair. The combined event will offer your institution the oppor-tunity to showcase your Residency and Fellowship programs as a group or as separate exhibits. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to advertise your programs to hundreds of medical students interested in the specialty of Emergency Medicine and residents in search of a

promising fellowship.

The early registration fee is $150 per table until April 1, 2013. After April 1, 2013, including on-site registration on May 17th, the fee is $200.

2013 SAEM Residency & Fellowship Fair

Friday, May 17, 2013 4:30pm—6:30pm

200 Peachtree Conference Center & Mezzanine, Grand Atrium

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ACADEMIC RESIDENT SECTION

Matthew J. Stull, MDPGY-2, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine

“The physicians are the natural advocates of the poor and social problems to a large extent fall within their jurisdiction.”

-Dr. Rudolph Virchow

Advocacy – to many physicians this term does not register as an aspect of their daily practice. Rarely do we consider the daily work that we do in the Emergency Department as “advocacy.” As physicians, we often believe that we leave that to the lobbyists on Capitol Hill, yet, the ED necessitates we be successful advocates for ourselves, our patients, and beyond. From pushing to get that “social admission” a bed on the floor to smoking cessation counseling we advocate for our patients in nearly every interaction. Yet, we do not necessarily consider this part of our role as a physician as we rarely name it for what it is.

THE CASE FOR BEING AN EFFECTIVE ADVOCATEThe ED is an environment of organized chaos demanding the

physician to switch his or her attention from issue to issue every moment of the day. From serving as the compassionate counselor for that patient with chest pain who developed symptoms after a fight with his loved one, to the resource mobilizer to care for multiple victims coming from a high-speed MVA, the number of responsibilities managed by an emergency physician is hard to comprehend. Adding another role to an already extensive list seems to be an overwhelming undertaking. Yet, advocacy is not a new responsibility; it is a skill we have all been practicing since medical school but have never actually named.

You may wonder why is it important for us to name what we do. While we recognize various competencies required to be a physician, areas such as medical knowledge and patient communication, the day-to-day advocacy efforts go unnamed and thus unrecognized. Until we begin to value advocacy as an equally important competency and aspect of our practice, we will struggle to make the maximum impact on our patients’ health.

However, to begin discussing the value of such a skill set we need to have a common definition; as for many, the only thought that comes to mind when “advocacy” is discussed is testifying in front of Congress or picketing in front of the White House. All advocacy efforts do not necessarily include politics, especially the partisan politics we so often see in the news today. Perhaps the most complete definition comes from Earnest and colleagues1, in which they describe physician advocacy as:

…an action by a physician to promote those social, economic, educational, and political changes that ameliorate the suffering and threat to human health and well-being that

they identify through their professional work/expertise.Advocacy must be action-oriented. While it takes a great

deal of thought and planning to institute, advocacy cannot be successful without direct action. While working at a national level to affect policy is one example of physician advocacy efforts, it is by no means the only way to practice advocacy. Earnest and collaborators’ definition furthers the idea that you can effectively practice advocacy without ever stepping foot inside the legislature or carrying a picket sign. By no means is this the only way to advocate. Our administrators constantly work with hospital leadership to ensure we have the resources to care for our patients; our educators promote new programs for our learners to provide the highest quality care; and our researchers constantly fight for more funding to better investigate ways to improve our patient’s care. Each time any EP promotes change in a patient’s behavior, or ensures that the healthcare system is more easily navigated by the patient, or improves experiences we have each shift, she is performing advocacy.

More and more advocacy is being incorporated into definitions of professionalism. Clearly defining this concept is thus crucial to promote both its development and importance moving forward. Specialty societies have also begun to clearly incorporate the expectation that physicians use advocacy as a tool in their daily practice; the American Board of Internal Medicine charter on

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PHYSICIAN ADVOCACY & EMERGENCY MEDICINE: A NATURAL PAIRING

On behalf of the SAEM GME Committee, I hope that

you will find the articles featured in this section to be

useful tools in your academic/professional development.

Feel free to email comments and suggestions regarding

additional content areas that would be of value to

residents and recent residency graduates. Proposals

for future contributions are welcome and may be sent

to newsletter@saem.org.

Meagan Hunt, MD, Wake Forest University

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professionalism mandates a “commitment to the promotion of public health and preventive medicine, as well as public advocacy on the part of each physician.”2 The AMA supports a similar stance in its Declaration of Professional Responsibility.3 Further, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Pediatrics Residency Review Committee requires all pediatrics residents to have training and experience in advocacy.4 Clearly, advocacy is a role that must be embraced by a physician to fulfill a commitment to their professional responsibility.

MISSING THE MARKWhile the literature on physician engagement in advocacy is

scant, two studies demonstrate that we are missing the mark if we do believe this to be an aspect of our professional identities. The first, by Gruen et al in 2006, describes a national survey of physicians to determine the public roles that physicians perceived to be important. While greater than 90% of the random sample agreed that community participation, political involvement, and collective advocacy (i.e. being involved in their specialty society) were key aspects of physicians’ public roles in society, no more than 55% self-reported participating in any one of these categories in the preceding 3 years.5 This highlights that there is wide agreement among physicians that we have a responsibility to our patients beyond the one-on-one care we provide, yet this belief does not translate into action.

One would imagine that certain civic engagement activities, such as voting, might serve as a surrogate marker for physicians’ involvement in advocacy. If a physician votes, it indicates that they at least feel the need to exercise their voice by selecting those who will serve to represent them to make policy that will shape healthcare and beyond. A second illustrative study, by Grande in 2007, demonstrates that physicians vote at a significantly lower rate than professionals in other fields, most especially lawyers, and even less than the general public.6 While this does not necessarily indicate that physicians are not committed to advocacy, it certainly points toward a concerning trend that we do not make every effort to exercise our collective voices to impact society.

BARRIERS TO ADVOCACYWhile we may recognize that inherent in being a physician,

especially an emergency physician, comes the role of advocate, why are physicians so reticent to engage in advocacy? There are any number of reasons why we as a profession may struggle with embracing such a role. As physicians, we are trained from early on to value evidence-based outcomes and often take a “hard” science approach to evaluating interventions. However, the interventions that advocacy entails, i.e. education, community engagement, and policy change, often do not lend themselves to randomized control trials to support the outcome. While this barrier to teaching advocacy may be acquired through traditional medical education, perhaps the earliest barrier occurs at the moment we begin to select our learners. While medicine has recently become aware of the importance of a more holistic review of applicants, we are slow to change and the basic science student with excellent grades still often outshines the humanist that is socially-minded and engaged in their local community. Selection is the earliest point to consider in overcoming this barrier; however our long, isolating medical training may be more important to consider as a point where apathy can creep into our professional personas. Advocacy requires a feeling of connection to a cause and a community, something that is quite difficult to preserve throughout the medical education continuum. As a physician, time is scarce both inside and outside of our professional training and finding

time to engage with a community outside those in your immediate situation can be quite difficult. While medical education has begun to better enlist the community in training their learners, we are still a far cry away from being as engaged as many other health care professionals in training, such as our nursing colleagues.

While all of these barriers merit consideration when aiming to optimize medical education to produce the most effective physician advocates, there is no bigger barrier than the simple fact that our training often neglects the very concept of how to be an effective advocate. We expect that during training physicians will develop the key knowledge and skills to effectively advocate for their patients. Rarely, do we take the time to identify these as skills which will be immensely helpful in all aspects of a future career. No matter what career path one chooses – academic or community, researcher or educator or administrator – all EM physicians will benefit from recognizing and honing these skills. Advocacy skills are too broad, essential, and transferrable to depend on a “see one, do one” mentality.

MOVING TOWARD A SOLUTIONWe all recognize that any curriculum in medical education is

cramped, especially in emergency medicine where the knowledge base is vast, but developing a clear approach to advocacy teaching is essential. Supporting advocacy training would not necessarily require additions; but instead, identifying and naming when and where the skill is being taught would significantly enhance the recognition of this professional responsibility among trainees. Whenever behavior change is discussed, discharge teaching is modeled, professional development sessions on negotiation and management skills are organized, or policies that impact emergency medicine are reviewed, there is an opportunity to highlight the relation these have to advocacy. Successful advocacy efforts involve the development of three concrete skill areas: education, grassroots organizing, and policy advancement.7 These skills are transferrable and easily applicable to any arena of an EP’s practice: administration, research, education, or clinic. Providing opportunities for trainees to identify gaps or needs in any aspect of their practice and to address such problems in a mindful, systematic way while emphasizing skills in effective educational techniques, grassroots organizing abilities, and policy-development tactics, would serve to cultivate effective physician advocates that would advance our patients’ health and our specialty’s well-being. Advocacy skills give us the opportunity to find our voice and impact systems-level issues that are bigger than ourselves. Certainly, learners and practitioners will take to heart the fact that what at times can seem like a frustrating part of our role in the ED can actually be one of the most empowering experiences a physician can have. ◗

References:1 Earnest MA, Wong SL, Federico SG. Perspective: Physician advocacy: What is it and how do

we do it? Acad Med.2010;85:63-76.2 ABIM Foundation; ACP-ASIM Foundation; European Federation of Internal Medicine. Medical

professionalism in the new millennium: A physician charter. Ann Intern Med. 2002;136:243–246.3 American Medical Association. Declaration of Professional Responsibility: Medicine’s Social

Contract With Humanity. Available at: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/upload/mm/369/decofprofessional.pdf. Accessed September 28, 2012.

4 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Pediatrics program requirements. Available at: http://www.acgme.org/acWebsite/RRC_320/320_prIndex.asp. Accessed September 28, 2012.

5 Gruen RL, Campbell EG, Blumenthal D. Public roles of US physicians: Community participation, political involvement, and collective advocacy. JAMA.2006;296:2467–2475.

6 Grande D, Asch DA, Armstrong K. Do doctors vote? J Gen Intern Med. 2007;22:585–589.7 Stull MJ, Brockman JA, Wiley EA. The “I Want to Help People” Dilemma: Advocacy Training

and Health. Academic Medicine.2011; 86:1349.

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The following case comes from the revised 2012 SAEM Ethics Curriculum, Module 8: Professional Responsibilities. The entire curriculum and multiple provocative teaching cases are available on-line at the SAEM website.

A 26 year old man presents with severe tachycardia, tremors, a history of alcoholism, and signs of significant alcohol withdrawal. He doesn’t respond adequately to ED interventions. As you prepare to admit him, he asks you not to tell his mother and grandmother, since he lives with both of them. He is enrolled in Alcoholics Anonymous, has had a DUI conviction and is being monitored by the courts. He is worried that telling his family will jeopardize his current probationary status, and he doesn’t want to “get into trouble.”

CASE QUESTIONS:1. Should you agree to the patient’s request?

2. What should you say to the family when they ask what is going on and if this is related to alcohol?

3. Do you have any obligation to the larger society in this instance?

DISCUSSION:Professional codes – whether the general Code of Ethics by the

AMA or the more specific Code of Ethics for Emergency Physicians – outline the special obligations that emergency physicians have towards patients, colleagues, themselves and society.

One area where the Codes may be less than helpful is the area of confidentiality and truth telling. These are important values described in all codes. Some exceptions to confidentiality are clear: when a patient is an imminent threat to himself/herself or others, beneficence and public safety warrant overriding patient confidentiality. But cases where the patient asks you not to disclose intoxication, or to not reveal HIV status, or an unexplained pregnancy are not as clear-cut. Likewise, truth telling (to this patient’s family, for instance) can sometimes conflict with respect for patient, the family unit or traditions in some cultures. Balancing short-term good will vs. long-term beneficence for the patient, non-imminent but real risks to family, friends and the rest of society, make these ethical choices difficult for the professional.

In this case, the family asked the EP straight out if the patient was drinking and if that caused his medical problem. Rather than breaking the confidence of this patient, the physician has a few choices:

- Encourage the family to ask the patient.

- Inform the family that the patient has asked that he not discuss the medical issues with the family.

- Go back to the patient and try to convince him that the family should know.

This case is difficult for several reasons. First, physicians don’t want to be accused of paternalism, and we are perhaps not sure what is really in the patient’s best interest. Would disclosure ultimately be in the patient’s best interest? Would disclosure harm the family interactions? Would it be helpful, in that “medicalizing” alcoholism and being non-judgmental about a very serious medical condition is a way to break down barriers to talking about a sometimes-taboo subject?

Next, it is important not to abrogate your professional responsibilities by hiding behind his autonomy straight off (“Oh, I have to honor whatever he says.”). The patient’s initial “autonomous” request should be approached with caution. You are obligated to discuss the implications of his choice with him, and perhaps to advocate for the benefits of being honest to his family and acting responsibly to take charge of his health. We do this knowing that patients sometimes make bad choices that we can’t prevent or override.

Finally, we need to consider how we balance our obligation to the patient and his family relationships with an obligation to keep the rest of society safe from alcoholics. Though we don’t know if this patient engaged in dangerous behaviors while drunk, as EPs we worry about the personal and societal impacts of alcoholism and we see them first-hand in the ED all too frequently.

As with most ethical dilemmas, different people come down honestly on different sides of the argument about whether or how you should disclose the patient’s clinical diagnosis of alcohol withdrawal. What would you do? ◗

ETHICS IN ACTIONJean Abbott, MD, MHEmergency Medicine and Center for Bioethics and HumanitiesUniversity of Colorado School of Medicine

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SAEM is currently in production of a new website and online member community. Research was collected earlier this year to develop the requirements of the new site and this article will discuss the results. Research instruments included: interviews and focus groups, a survey to all members, a card sort exercise, usability testing, and website analytics.

SURVEYThe survey data reflected the attitudes of respondents, which suggest that there are significant issues associated with the current website. Whether assessing aspects of the current content, functionality or appearance, many of the respondents gave the site low marks.

From a content perspective, the ability to meet core expectations such as having up-to-date information, easily accessible information about the Annual Meeting, and accurate information about residencies and fellowships, all received average scores below 3.0 on a five-point scale (1= strongly disagree through 5=strongly agree).

Attitudes regarding the website’s design and functionality were particularly negative. Overall, only one-fifth of the respondents considered the layout/format/functionality of the website to be “good” or “excellent.” When asked about the menu/navigation system the mean response was 2.2 on a five-point scale (1=poor through 5=excellent) with 30% of the respondents rating it “poor,” the lowest point on the scale.

Looking forward to a redesigned website, respondents were asked to rank the importance of sixteen potential features in relation to the members’ mission as researchers and educators in emergency medicine. The items considered most important are listed below. The features were ranked with mean scores above 4.0 on a 5-point scale (1=not at all important to 5=very important):

• Searchable Residency and Fellowships directories

• Comprehensive calendar with national and regional meeting information

• Information about grants and awards

• Resources for use in teaching

• Tools to support activities of the SAEM Academies

While participants in the survey generally agreed that the website could be an important benefit of SAEM membership, their responses also indicated that they did not feel the website was meeting expectations. Rather than a mere tweaking of the site, the responses suggest the need for a clear assessment of the role of the website as a component of SAEM’s strategic vision,

and a subsequent implementation of a redesigned website with content, functionality and design that will represent significant value for the membership.

CARD SORT EXERCISEThe goal of the card sort exercise is to provide an understanding of how the website users expect information to be organized. An examination of the card sort clusters for member responses verses those of staff indicates a great deal of similarity as well as some noteworthy differences. For example:

1. Staff results yielded a large cluster of terms that combined the various academies along with association-focused voluntary activities such as “committees,” “ethics committee resources,” and “task forces.” For the members the academies and AACEM constituted their own distinct cluster, with the other types of committee and task force activities being clustered with terms such as “interest groups” and “get involved.”

2. Results for members blurred the differences between core membership activities (e.g., “join SAEM,” “membership,” “membership benefits”) and more general information about the association such as “about us,” “leadership,” “mission statement,” and “strategic plan,” combining them into one cluster. For staff, however, those two types of elements emerged as distinct clusters.

3. Members’ responses resulted in a well-defined research and grants cluster of five elements (“grants,” “research announcement,” “research collaborations,” “research grants,” and “research interests”). For staff the terms including “research” were part of a large cluster with education-related terms while the grant-related terms were in another cluster with the foundation.

Fortunately, one of the strengths of a website is that varying perspectives can be accommodated by cross-referencing different sections. For example, if a visitor wishes to find the residency consultation service, they should be able to use the menu system to navigate to the residents’ area or the education & training area to find an appropriate link, or use the internal search engine. The goal is to design the website navigation, content tagging and search function to accommodate ease of use and cross-referencing information across multiple sections of the site.

USABILITY TESTINGFunctionality and EnhancementsSeveral functionality and enhancement suggestions came out of the usability testing. One of the frequent comments was

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SAEM WEBSITE REDESIGNJames Pearson

Part 2: Data Analysis and Outcomes This is the second of three articles discussing the SAEM website refresh.

The first article discussed the strategy and techniques used to redesign the site. The second article will review the data that was collected and how it was applied to the new site design. The third article will review the completed site and highlight key features.

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that emergency medical professionals want information to be pushed to them through RSS and Twitter feeds. A mobile version of the SAEM website should be a first priority because many emergency medical professionals use mobile devices as their primary means to browse the Web. It was also requested that the calendar should be compatible with adding an event to Outlook or a Google calendar. Committees post stories to the newsletter, and they should be searchable for various audiences (residents, etc.) and by topic.

MAIN SITE NAVIGATIONIt was questioned whether the “Events” tab should be called “Meetings” instead of “Events” because that is all that’s currently under this tab. The theme of personalized content and segmentation continued with the Education and Training tab when it was suggested by multiple respondents that it should be divided for medical students, residents and faculty and offer specific educational resources for each group.

USABILITY ISSUESSome usability issues with the current site were raised as part of the usability testing discussions with SAEM members. For example, it was mentioned that it’s difficult to search for institutions in Washington, D.C. Additionally, several members mentioned that it’s difficult to update your member profile information and a few others received no response when they used the SAEM Contact Us link to solicit help.

WEBSITE ANALYTICSGoogle analytics was used to analyze SAEM.org website traffic for a five month period from, October 1, 2011 through February 29, 2012. The data was used to determine popular content sections on the site.

During the five month timeframe reviewed, the SAEM website experienced 93,673 visits for a monthly average of 18,735 visits. October was by far the lowest month, but usage jumped in November, decreased slightly in December and rose steadily in January.

TOP VISITED SAEM WEB PAGESThe results provide a useful summary compared to detailed information about popular pages on the site.

Page Views: The number of times pages are visited.Unique Page Views: The total number of times Internet users have viewed a particular Web page.

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The Loma Linda Emergency Medicine residency broke the record this year for the number of births by

Emergency Medicine residents and/ or their partner this year.

The total number of resident progeny is twenty-seven. Fourteen of whom were born during the last year

of residency! In addition, two residents were expecting at the time of

graduation.

Page Title Page

Views Unique Page

Views

SAEM Homepage 60,100 44,961

Residency Directory 33,359 12,359

Residency Vacancy Service 13,646 8,201

User Login 9,961 4,248

Fellowship Directory 9,410 3,302

Med Students 5,742 4,291

SAEM Annual Meeting 4,938 3,182

Clerkship Directory 4,304 1,618

User Account 3,802 2,348

Residents 3,747 2,949

Emergency Medicine Milestones Released

The final version of the 24 Emergency Medicine Milestones was re-leased on October 9th by the ACGME. The milestones can be found on the ACGME website: www.acgme.org. This document is the culmination of collaborative work by representatives of all the Emergency Medicine stakeholder organizations. The members of the Emergency Medicine Milestones Working Group were:

Mike Beeson-ACGME (Chair) Ted Christopher-AACEM

Jonathan Heidt-EMRA James Jones-ABEM

Susan Promes-SAEM Kevin Rodgers-AAEM Philip Shayne-CORD

MaryJo Wagner ACEP

The EM Milestones represent the cutting edge of the ACGME Mile-stone creation process in that it was guided by ABEM certification standards and their extensive database. It also bears mentioning that this document was created in an amazingly short time frame with our specialty being the first to complete data collection for a validation study of the milestones which ultimately informed the final version of the milestones. Emergency Medicine residency programs will be expected to report on each of their residents’ progress on achievement of milestones starting in December of 2013.

http://www.saem.org/acgme-emergency-medicine-milstones-released

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Lori J. SchrothNew research suggests that maximizing the potential of observation units in hospitals could result in significant cost savings for the both the hospital and the healthcare system.

Boston, MA – Previous research has shown that observation units in a hospital can be an efficient way to care for certain patients, but only about one-third of hospitals in the United States have such units. Now, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) estimate that maximizing the potential of an observation unit in a hospital could result in $4.6 million in savings annually for the hospital and $3.1 billion in overall savings for the health care system in the United States. These findings are published online by Health Affairs and will also appear in the journal’s October issue.

“We believe that this is the first attempt to quantify the financial impact of an observation unit,” said Christopher Baugh, MD, lead researcher on the paper and a physician in the Emergency Department at BWH. “Wider use of observation units may play a significant role in saving cost for the health care system and future policies that are focused on doing so should include support for observation units as an alternative tin short-stay inpatient admission,” Dr. Baugh said.

An observation until, a dedicated space typically near or within the emergency department, is an alternative to inpatient admission and is dedicated to caring for patients, usually for a 24-hour period, who have been discharged from the emergency department (ED) but require further observation and are not ready to safely leave the hospital. Previous research has shown that care in these units is equal or better in quality compared to inpatient care for certain patient populations.

Researchers used national survey data and published research to determine the average cost saving per observation unit and the number of hospitals that would benefit from an observation unit. They created a simulation model by using a method frequently used to evaluate risk in business when there are many uncertain variables.

Based on their model, researchers report that the average amount saved per patient, after adjusting for inflation could be $1,572 per visit to the observation unit when compared to an inpatient admission. Overall, the national cost savings could be up to $3.1 billion annually if the potential of observation units were maximized. This savings is due largely to avoiding 2.4 million inpatient admissions. Additionally, researchers report that for hospitals with large enough volume to justify the operation of an observation unit, the annual cost saving for that hospital would be $4.6 million, resulting from approximately 3,600 inpatient admissions avoided. Hospitals that would fit into this category include all those with more than 50,000 annual ED visits and many hospitals with 20,000-50,000 annual ED visits.

“In the wake of health care reform and increased scrutiny on the cost of health care, the health care system is under pressure to maintain quality care while decreasing cost. Observation units

represent a feasible way to achieve this goal and merit further evaluation as model for acute care redesign to increase the value of care provided throughout the country,” Dr. Baugh said.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is a 793-bed nonprofit teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of Partners HealthCare. BWH has more than 3.5 million annual patient visits, is the largest birthing center in New England and employs more than 15,000 people. The Brigham’s medical preeminence dates back to 1832, and today that rich history in clinical care is coupled with its national leadership in patient care, quality improvement and patient safety initiatives, and its dedication to research, innovation, community engagement and educating and training the next generation of health care professionals. Through investigation and discovery conducted at its Biomedical Research Institute (BRI), BWH is an international leader in basic, clinical and translational research on human diseases, involving nearly 1,000 physician-investigators and renowned biomedical scientists and faculty supported by nearly $625 million in funding. BWH continually pushes the boundaries of medicine, including building on its legacy in organ transplantation by performing the first face transplants in the U.S. in 2011. BWH is also home to major landmark epidemiologic population studies, including the Nurses’ and Physicians’ Health Studies, OurGenes and the Women’s Health Initiative. For more information and resources, please visit BWH’s online newsroom. ◗

HOSPITAL OBSERVATION UNITS COULD SAVE THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM $3.1 BILLION

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PEARLS OF JOB SELECTION AND CONTRACT EVALUATION FOR EM RESIDENTS

Aparajita Sohoni, MD and Barbara KatzAs summer gives way to fall, the annual topic of job selection

and contract negotiation comes to the fore. Barbara Katz is a nationally recognized expert on the Emergency Physician job market who has been working with and training EM residents in effective job searching since 1991. Currently President of the Katz Company and a frequent speaker at ACEP and AAEM, here are Barb’s answers to the most common and pressing questions about job selection and contract negotiation.

1. Barb, how would you characterize the job market that is facing current graduating residents? “This is the most candidate-driven market that the field of Emergency Medicine has ever seen! Currently, there are about 6-7 jobs for every resident graduating nation-wide.”

2. Is there any reason then for current graduates to be concerned about finding a job? “Finding the right job is the issue. A small portion of the thousands of jobs out there are great jobs. An even smaller portion are super jobs. Graduating residents need to be sure of what they are looking for in a job, and evaluate the job opportunities they encounter carefully, to be sure that there’s a match between their needs and the reality of what is being offered”.

3. How early should residents start thinking about job searching? “If you are a PGY-1, don’t even think about this stuff. Just focus on finishing your first year—that’s hard enough! PGY-2s should start to think about their life choices. By life choices, I mean the things in their lives that will determine what job they ultimately choose. For example, are you single, without any loans, or do you love to travel? Do you find yourself leaning towards an academic career or do you love the clinical aspects of EM? Alternatively, are you married, are schools of great importance, do you have a lot of loans that you want to start paying back, or do you have to live in a certain area? These are the life choices that, if you can define early—as early as a PGY-2—you will set yourself up for a more successful job search, because you will have actually defined what it is you are looking for.”

4. What should residents who are approaching the job search do to prepare themselves? “You can’t effectively manage the job market if you don’t have a defined set of goals. Without defined goals you are susceptible to indecision and jumping on the wrong opportunity for the wrong reasons. The variety of job structures, employee models, compensation structures and partnership deals is vast.

5. What is the best way for residents to determine their goals? Consider doing an exercise called “visioning”. Imagine yourself in 2018. Where are you, what does the practice model look like? How much are you earning and via what compensation model? What have you achieved professionally? What growth potential do you currently enjoy? The vision represents your goal list and it should be created in 3 categories: location & lifestyle, practice profile and finances. Remember, a goal isn’t a goal unless it’s written down.”

6. What are the most common ways that residents look for jobs? “Again, it all depends on what you want. If you want to stay in the area, and you live in a highly desirable location, you may find relying on personal connections to get an interview is the only way to go; if that doesn’t work, be prepared to broaden your search area. If you are open to a broad range of job types and locations, you may be searching the web for a job.

7. Are there any pitfalls of web searching for a job? “I’ve written several articles on this topic! To summarize, the best websites for residents are those that focus exclusively on EM jobs. Make sure you read the entire job listing before considering a position. Be wary of listings that don’t give any real details about the job, or only promise big money and benefits. Make sure you are aware of who posted the job listing, whether employer or a recruitment firm, before offering any of your personal information to them.

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8. Let us move on to contracts—another broad topic. What are some principles of assessing a contract that EM graduates should be aware of? “This is a huge topic. Three things you should look for when evaluating a contract are: 1. Is everything we discussed—the salary, the benefits, the time off, etc—actually present in the contract? 2. Is anything stated incorrectly, or misstated? 3. Is there anything in the contract that could hurt me? This last one can be confusing, but the basic principle is that everything should be equal—if the employer can terminate your contract with 60 days’ notice and no explanation, you should be able to do the same to them”.

9. What is the most common error that an EM graduate makes when assessing a contract? “The most common error I see is when a recent graduate signs something that they don’t completely understand. You should be given 2 weeks minimum to evaluate a contract. That’s standard across the board. You don’t necessarily need to have a lawyer review your contract if you have read it and feel you understand everything it says; and that’s what your faculty advisors are for!”

10. Are contracts ever truly binding? “This is very hairy territory as it gets into the ethics of job searching. If you have accepted a job and signed a contract, you are ethically bound in. If you choose to breach that ethical bond, understand that it may follow you throughout your career. EM is a small community that talks to each other, a lot! The Director you renege on today could be the one you want a job with 7 years from now!

11. Do you have any pearls of wisdom for EM residents about the actual interview day? “I have many! Remember that professionalism is everything. Employers talk to each other. Customer Service is a huge component of Emergency Medicine; more so than in any other specialty. EPs interact with other medical services, patients and their families on a regular basis. So strong communication skills are key. Bring your enthusiasm to an interview; they’ll be looking for it. Send a thank you note to every hiring authority who interviews you. It’s important to thank them for their time and interest, and to provide them with a time frame for making your decision. If you keep interviewing, so will they and the longer it takes, the more likely you are to lose the job. Lastly, once you accept a position, send a note to each employer you interviewed with in person and inform them of your decision, explain why you made it, and thank them for their time and consideration”.

12. Any final words of advice for our graduating residents? “Use your head, not your wallet, to determine what constitutes real opportunity!”

With that, we wish the best of luck to EM residents entering the job market! It’s a great time to be an EM physician. Look forward to more postings about transitioning to life out of residency in the coming months. ◗

AUTHOR BYLINES:Aparajita Sohoni MD, Clerkship Director/Attending Physician at Alameda County Medical Center – Highland Hospital, member of the Resident and Student Advisory Committee, SAEM.

Barbara Katz, President of the Katz Company, an emergency medicine consulting firm dedicated to providing expert physician recruitment services and training emergency medicine residents in effective job searching.

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, the Department of Emergency Medicine Chair at Wake Forest James Hoekstra, MDUniversity became one SAEM member who took the SAEM Foundation challenge to BECOME ONE.

Will you take the challenge and BECOME ONE individual to changethe future of academic emergency medicine?

Make your donation online today at www.saem.org and begin seeing how you are making a difference.

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Our academy is the only group in the United States and inter-nationally that is designed spe-cifically for academic adminis-trators in Emergency Medicine. We are at an all time high, of 68 members and counting. This is a direct result of both the mem-bership committee chaired by Bill Fussinger and the growing respect and admiration for our group in where we are going.

Our academy is made up of 7 active committees.

-Executive committee

-Membership committee

-Benchmark committee

-Strategic Planning com-mittee

-Website and Communica-tions committee

-Nomination committee

-Planning committee

In addition, we have a listserv that is a powerhouse of information to current questions among our mem-bers who are looking for in-formation on a myriad of topics, from EMR’s to Bill-

ing and Coding companies, Scribes to Hospital and School funding, and every-thing in between. If it is a Hot Topics In Emergency Medicine today, the AAAEM listserv is a great source of real time information from your peers.

Who we Are, What we Do, Why We exist and Where we are going:

The 2012 Annual AAAEM-AACEM Meeting

WHEN: Founded in 2010 after many years of hard work to find the most effective fo-rum for our group.

WHY: There was no national group representing our needs and goals to further the aca-demic vision and accomplish-ments within our specialty.

MISSION: To have a venue for administrators to share ideas, knowledge and com-munications with one another and to foster professional development, career satisfac-tion and advancements in research in emergency medi-cine operations and manage-ment and education

Annual AAAEM and com-bined AACEM Chairs Re-treat: The Retreat will be held from April 7th to April 10th 2013 at the Turnberry Isle Resort in Miami Florida.

JOIN US TODAY!

2012/13 Executive Committee

OUR AAAEM WEBSITE:http://www.saem.org/academy-administrators-academic-emergency-medicine

AAAEM dues cover BOTH Academy AND SAEM memberships. Your membership

provides full access to all AAAEM services/products and most SAEM member

services including a subscription to the SAEM bi-monthly newsletter. If you are

already an SAEM member you won’t have to pay additional dues to join our academy!

Please notify SAEM Headquarters at membership@saem.org, that you are a current

SAEM member and wish for your membership to include AAAEM membership.

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Who We Are AEUS became an Academy within SAEM in

2011. AEUS continues to grow and make great strides towards advancing its mission on behalf

of the ultrasound community.

www.saem.org/academy-emergency-ultrasound Research Network ● Narrated Lecture Series ● Ultrasound Guides

● AEM Virtual Issue ● Medical Student Curriculum ● Resident/Fellow Mentorship ● Pediatric EM Ultrasound Development

Our Mission >> Advancing education and research of ultrasound for the bedside evaluation of emergency medical conditions. >> Serving as a discussion platform for physicians practicing clinical sonography. >> Supporting medical student, resident, fellow, and faculty ultrasound training and education. >> Fostering individual and multicenter ultrasound research. >> Working closely with other emergency medicine groups and outside specialties in order to share common interest in ultrasound training and research.

Accomplishments >> SonoGames: The first SonoGames were held in 2012. Over 30 residency teams participated in the competition showcasing their EUS knowledge and skills. >> Narrated Lecture Series: Contains various lectures highlighting many applications of emergency ultrasound. >> AEM Virtual Issue: is an open-access list of Academic Emergency Medicine EUS articles currently published and organized by topic. >> Medical Student Curriculum: provides samples of curricula from programs that offer medical student emergency ultrasound rotations. >> Pediatric EM Ultrasound Development: AEUS is reaching out to various pediatric EM groups to create a consensus on pediatric ultrasound training in both residency and fellowship programs. http://www.saem.org/academy-emergency-ultrasound-resources

Member Highlight Matthew Dawson &

Mike Mallin

Matthew Dawson and Mike Mallin started the Ultrasound Podcast in July 2011 after completing an ultrasound fellowship together at the University of Utah. The podcast has since released over 30 free episodes highlighting basic and advanced ultrasound education and has been downloaded over 200,000 times in over 200 countries. The podcast has varied from advanced education in cardiac echo and new musculoskeletal techniques to journalistic coverage of Sonogames 2012. The success of the podcast led them to put on Castlefest 2012, a 6-day ultrasound festival in Kentucky with over 100 participants and fun dialed up to 11. The course was so fun and educational that they are doing it again at Castlefest 2013.

In addition, just within the last year they have released a free smartphone app, One Minute Ultrasound, which breaks down simple and complicated ultrasound procedures into one minute refreshers. Most recently Mike and Matt joined Mike Stone in an effort to make ultrasound educational clips more availa-ble and open source, creating Sonocloud. In the last few months they have been busy editing the first Ultrasound iBook, Introduction to Bedside Ultrasound, due to release soon. Mike and Matt believe in open source medical education and are proud that they can help people learn ultrasound all over the world.

http://www.ultrasoundpodcast.com

http://www.sonocloud.org

http://www.castlefest2013.com

Mark your calendars! 2013 SonoGames at the SAEM Annual

Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia

The purpose of SonoGames is to enhance resident education in point-of-care ultrasound through a fun, informational competition. EM residents will demonstrate their skills

and knowledge of point-of-care ultrasound. Three rounds of riveting ultrasound chal-

lenges based on ultrasound fund-of-knowledge, image acquisition, image inter-pretation, and incorporation into clinical practice.

The winning team receives a plaque and their name on the infamous SonoCup which will be displayed at the winning team’s insti-tution for the year.

Registration will be available this winter through the SAEM Annual Meeting

registration platform. For further information contact sonogames2013@gmail.com.

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ABEM ELECTION RESULTS

John C. Moorehead, MDAssumes office as President of ABEMDr. Moorehead received his medical degree in 1975 from Queens University Medical School in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and completed his residency in Emergency Medicine in 1978 at Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University in Montreal, Quebec,

Canada. He is Professor of Emergency Medicine, Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Oregon Health & Science Univeristy in Portland, Oregon.

James H. Jones, MDElected President-ElectDr. Jones received his medical degree from The Ohio Stae University College of Medicine, and completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine in 1982 at Wright Tate University in Dayton, Ohio. He is Vice Chair and Professor of Clinical Emergency

Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Indiana School of Medicine and is the Medical Director of the Wishard Memorial Hospital Emergency Department in Indianapolis, Indiana.

At its July 2012 meeting, ABEM also elected the following directors to the 2012-13 Executive Committee: Richard N. Nelson, M.D., Immediate-Past-President; James H. Jones, M.D., President- Elect; Francis L. Counselman, M.D., Secretary-Treasurer; and Barry N. Heller, M.D., Member-at-Large.

2013 PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE SUBSPECIALTY CERTIFICATION EXAMINATION

The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) and the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) will administer the certifying examination in Pediatric Emergency Medicine on Tuesday, April 9, 2013.

Physicians who are certified in Emergency Medicine by ABEM must submit an application to ABEM. Physicians who are certified in General Pediatrics by ABP must submit an application to ABP. Physicians who are certified by both boards may apply through either ABEM or ABP. Upon successful completion of the examination, certification is awarded by the board through which the physician applied.

Applicants must complete an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) accredited fellowship program in Pediatric Emergency Medicine to be eligible to take the examination in 2013. The complete eligibility criteria are available from each board office or at www.abem.org and www.abp.org.

Application materials will be available for physicians applying through ABEM starting August 1, 2012. Completed applications must be submitted to ABEM on or before January 10, 2013. ABP diplomates should contact ABP for application information.

THE AMERICAN BOARD OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE

During the 2012 Annual Meeting, many presenters at the annual meeting recorded brief presentations of their research with Scott Joing, MD, Academic Emergency Medicine’s section editor for Dynamic Emergency Medicine. Many of these presentations were posted on Facebook and Twitter during the meeting, allowing a new way to disseminate research presentations and foster communication during our meeting. This project now contains 80 recordings of presenters covering a wide variety of the research presentations from the meeting, and represents a unique approach to creating an archive of the research presentations from the meeting. We hope in future years to create recordings of all of the meetings presentations, and would appreciate advice from SAEM members on the best ways to complete this task and the formats of these recordings. Links to these presentations are on Academic Emergency Medicine’s website, and can be found at Academic Emergency Medicines Vimeo.com account, http://vimeo.com/aem. The qr code for the vimeo portfolio is included below. James R Miner MD Senior Associate Editor for Electronic Publications Academic Emergency Medicine miner015@umn.edu

PEER-REVIEWED LECTURES (PERLS) ARE HERE!

Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) is now publishing a series of videos of lectures on topics in emergency medicine. These are intended to represent the state-of-the-art in emergency medicine education. Residents, practicing physicians, and medical students may use them for didactic education. The videos will contain both the presented audiovisual material for the lectures (such as Power Point slides) and live video of the presenter. The PeRLs lectures themselves will be “open access” right away. The first one, “The Millenial Generation and ‘The Lecture’ “, by Danielle Hart and Scott Joing, appeared in the November 2011 issue and can be accessed from the journal’s home page. The second one, “ECG Diagnosis of Acute STEMI-Equivalent in the Presence of Left Bundle Branch Block”, by Stephen Smith, is featured prominently on the journal’s web page:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1553-2712

Two additional PeRLs have been added to the journal’s home page, so check there for more exciting, ongoing developments with this feature.

We welcome your submissions. Contact Sr. Associate Editor for Education, John Burton, for further information. His email address is jhburton@carilionclinic.org.

Stay tuned for updates!!!

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ACADEMIC ANNOUNCEMENTSArthur B. Sanders, MD, MS, professor, department of emergency medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson was elected to the Institute of Medicine.

Christopher P. Austin, MD, has been named Director of the National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), effective Sept. 23rd. He succeeds Acting Director Thomas R. Insel, MD. Austin had been serving as Director of the NCATS Division of Pre-Clinical Innovation. With funding provided by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) awarded funding to 16 interprofessional teams to accelerate educational content refinement and submission to MedEdPORTAL for peer review. Alyssa Bryant, MD, Assistant Professor at Emory, was honored to receive one of these awards for her submission of her Interprofessional Team Training program. This is a longitudinal curriculum with several class days that brings together students from medicine, nursing, physician assistant, physical therapy, medical imaging and anesthesia assistant programs. An anonymous donor has made a seven-year commitment to Emory’s School of Medicine to establish the Roxann Arnold Professorship in Palliative Medicine. This professorship will be awarded to Tammie E. Quest, MD, who was appointed as Director of Emory’s Palliative Care Center in 2011 and has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine since 1998. The gift honors Roxann Arnold, Director of Patient Financial Services for Emory Healthcare and her more than 37 years of dedicated service. The Ministry of Health in the country of Georgia has awarded Emory University School of Medicine physicians a $686,000 grant to establish simulation-based training programs for every physician and nurse in that country. Internal medicine physicians Kenneth Walker, MD, and Archil Undilashvili, MD, and emergency medicine physician Douglas S. Ander, MD, will lead the program in a newly established state-of-the-art training center in Georgia. The funding will allow Emory physicians to enhance the education of doctors and nurses in Georgia with the support of numerous Emory faculty from multiple departments who will develop and implement the training curriculum. K. John McConnell, PhD, MS, an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, was awarded a R01 grant from the NIH’s Common Fund “Health Economics” Program. This 4-year, $2.2M grant is titled, “Evaluating Coordinated Care Organizations” and will evaluate the effects of the Oregon Medicaid’s transition to Coordinated Care Organizations, with a focus on the effects on utilization, spending, payment rates, and overall patient quality. Mike Smith, MD, FACEP & Jon Schrock, MD, FACEP were promoted to Associate Professors of EM at Case Western Reserve on July 1, 2012.

Steven L. Bernstein, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Yale, has been awarded a four-year, $3 million grant from the NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute for his study, “Implementation of HIT-Enhanced Tobacco Treatment for Hospitalized Smokers.” This project, funded under the R18 mechanism, will study the efficacy of an electronic Integrated Tobacco Order Set in the treatment of a cohort of adult smokers admitted to the hospital. Ugo Ezenkwele, MD, MPH was promoted to Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at New York University. Sheryl Heron, MD, from Emory University was a recipient of the ACEP National Emergency Medicine Teaching Award in 2012. Lisa Moreno-Walton, MD, from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center was awarded the NIH PRIDE Research Fellowship for this academic year.

Dr. Jennifer L. Wiler MD, MBA has recently been promoted to the position of Vice Chair of Clinical Quality, Patient Safety and Process Improvement in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of

Medicine. Dr. Wiler is a graduate of the University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. She is the former Assistant Medical Director at Hahnemann University Hospital and Assistant Clinical Service Chief and Medical Director of Observation Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. She has served in numerous state and national leadership positions and is currently a member of the American Medical Association RBRVS Updates Committee (RUC), Chair of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) EM Practice Committee, the President of the Aurora-Adams County Medical Society, a member of the Board of Directors for the Colorado Medical Society and the Colorado Chapter of ACEP. She had been nationally recognized for her expertise in professional reimbursement, operations, quality, patient safety and health policy and has published widely on the topics.

CLASSIFIEDSOHIO, The Ohio State University: Academic Position. Residency Program. Level 1 trauma center. Nationally recognized research program. Clinical opportunities at OSU Medical Center and affiliated hospitals. Responsibilities include medical student and resident education; research in laboratory, translation and/or clinical settings. Competitive salary with full university benefits including tuition assistance. Contact Mark Angelos, MD, Professor and Interim Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University or mary-jayne.fortney@osumc.edu; 614-366-8693. AAEOE

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CALLS AND MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTSFor details and submission information on the items below, see www.saem.org and look for the Newsletter links on the home page or links within the Events section of the web site.

CALL FOR PAPERS 2013 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference “Global Health and Emergency Care: A Research Agenda”The 2013 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference, “Global Health and Emergency Care: A Research Agenda” will be held on Wednesday, May 15, 2013, immediately preceding the SAEM Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Original papers on the conference topic, if accepted, will be published together with the conference proceedings in the December 2013 issue of Academic Emergency Medicine.Global health includes clinical care, education, and research. It places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide. Global health emphasizes transnational health issues, causes, and solutions; involves many disciplines; and is a synthesis of population-based prevention and patient care. This consensus conference proposes to build a solid foundation upon which international researchers can build interdisciplinary scholarship, networks of expertise, discussion forums, multicenter collaborations, evidence-based publications, and improved education. Consensus Goal: Identify the principles, opportunities, and challenges for acute and emergency care research in the global environment; establish the research agenda that will advance the science of global emergency medicine.Consensus Objectives: 1. Define the need for research in acute and emergency care

within the framework of health as a human right2. Describe the principles and components needed to build

capacity and sustain global acute and emergency care research

3. Identify global trends in funding priorities in emergency care research

4. Develop and propose a consensus strategy to strengthen emergency care research globally and enhance sustainable funding

Accepted manuscripts will describe relevant research concepts in areas such as medical education, data collection, and ethics. They may include work in clinical/translational, health systems, or basic sciences research. Descriptions of specific research, projects, or collaborations may be used for illustrative purposes but should not comprise the core of the submission. Original contributions describing relevant research or concepts on these or similar topics will be considered, and original high-quality research may also be submitted alone or in conjunction with concept papers. Papers will be considered for publication in the December 2013 issue of Academic Emergency Medicine if received by Monday, March 11, 2013. All submissions will undergo peer review and publication cannot be guaranteed. For queries, please contact Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH (hargart@mcw.edu), Mark Hauswald, MS, MD (markhauswald@gmail.com), Rebecca Cunningham MD (stroh@med.umich.edu), Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH, PhD (jhirs001@umaryland.edu), or Ian B K Martin, MD (ian_martin@med.unc.edu), the 2013 consensus conference co-chairs. Information and updates will be regularly posted in Academic Emergency Medicine, the SAEM Newsletter, and the journal and SAEM websites.

CALL FOR PAPERS The Evidence-Based Diagnostics section of the Academic Emergency Medicine journal is seeking submissions. These manuscripts will evaluate a single emergency medicine-relevant diagnosis using a systematic review and meta-analysis to summarize high-quality clinical research focusing on history, physical exam, readily-available lab tests, and common imaging strategies. Evidence quality will be graded using the Quality Assessment Tool for Diagnostic Accuracy Studies. The highest-quality evidence will then be summarized to report point-estimates or ranges for pre-test probability, diagnostic accuracy including interval likelihood ratios, and test-treatment thresholds for definitive tests. Authors are encouraged to contact the section editor, Christopher Carpenter, MD (carpenterc@wusm.wustl.edu) with specific questions for this series.

CALL FOR PAPERSConsensus Conference Follow-Up Manuscripts

Submissions in any category (Original Contributions, Brief Reports, etc.) that describe research that was initiated to address a research agenda topic generated at one of the prior Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conferences should be identified as such in the cover letter that accompanies the manuscript, when the manuscript is submitted for review. Authors should state to which consensus conference the manuscript relates, and should also state which issue(s) discussed or raised at that consensus conference is/are addressed by the manuscript. Attempts will be made to publish consensus conference follow-up manuscripts as a group, rather than individually, and if authors are aware of other papers underway from that same conference’s research agenda, they are encouraged to coordinate submission with the authors of those other papers. Contact: Gary Gaddis, MD, PhD (ggaddis@saint-lukes.org).

Call For Papers 2014 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference - Specific Research in Emergency Medicine:Investigate, Understand and Translate How Gender Affects Patient Outcomes

The 2014 Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) Consensus Conference, Gender-Specific Research in Emergency Medicine will be held on Wednesday, May 14, 2014, immediately preceding the SAEM Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX. Original papers on this topic, if accepted, will be published together with the conference proceedings in the December 2014 issue of AEM.Gender-specific medicine is the “science of how normal human biology differs between men and women and how the manifestations, mechanisms and treatment of disease vary as a function of gender.” While gender-specific medicine incorporates advances in reproductive health issues, the AEM Consensus Conference will focus on broad disease-specific EM issues that are relevant to both women and men. The key domains of the conference are cardiovascular/resuscitation, cerebrovascular, pain, trauma/injury/violence, diagnostic imaging, mental health and substance abuse.

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Consensus Goal: The goal of the 2014 AEM Consensus Conference is to stimulate EM researchers to methodically recognize, investigate and translate the impact of gender on their clinical research outcomes. The conference proposes to build a foundation upon which researchers can build interdisciplinary scholarship, networks of expertise, discussion forums, multicenter collaborations, evidence-based publications, and improved education. The overarching themes of the conference have been guided and informed by NIH research priorities on gender medicine and include study of the lifespan, sex/gender distinctions, health disparities/differences and diversity and interdisciplinary research.

Consensus Objectives: 1) Summarize and consolidate existing data and create a blueprint

that furthers gender-specific research in the prevention, diagnosis and management of acute diseases.

2) Discuss the conceptual models for designing studies and analysis that incorporate gender as an independent variable.

3) Build a multinational interdisciplinary consortium to study gender medicine for acute conditions.

Accepted manuscripts will describe relevant research concepts in gender-specific areas with priority placed on differential disease risk, vulnerability, progression and outcomes. They may include work in clinical/translational, health systems, policy or basic sciences research. Descriptions of specific research, projects, or collaborations may be used for illustrative purposes but should not comprise the core of the submission. Original contributions describing relevant research or concepts on these or similar topics will be considered, and original high-quality research may also be submitted alone or in conjunction with concept papers. Papers will be considered for publication in the December 2014 issue of AEM if received by Monday, March 11, 2014. All submissions will undergo peer review and publication cannot be guaranteed. For queries, please contact Marna Rayl Greenberg, DO, MPH (Marna.Greenberg@lvh.com) or Basmah Safdar, MD (basmah.safdar@yale.edu) the 2014 Consensus Conference co-chairs.Information and updates will be regularly posted in AEM, the SAEM Newsletter, and the journal and SAEM websites.

Call For Papers Evidence-based Medicine

Academic Emergency Medicine is soliciting authors for writing structured Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) review articles on topics relevant to the practice of emergency medicine. These reviews are designed to provide answers to the clinical questions raised by emergency physicians in their day-to-day practice. These reviews are expected to identify and appraise high-quality studies with designs most appropriate for the research question at hand. The structured format and methodical approach of these manuscripts ensure a unified stepwise evidence-based approach to translate the research findings into clinical practice. In the absence of high-quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses, these reviews can cast light on numerous dilemmas that emergency physicians encounter in their practice. The instructions for preparing structured EBM reviews can be found under the “Progressive Clinical Practice” section (http://www.wiley.com/bw/submit.asp?ref=1069-6563&site=1). The authors will be guided through the manuscript preparation by one of the editors with experience in writing EBM and/or systematic reviews.

The editors also welcome topic suggestions for such reviews. These suggestions will help generate a topic list that would be made available to interested authors.

The format of EBM reviews can be viewed in some of the published manuscripts from these series:

Hom J. The risk of intra-abdominal injuries in pediatric patients with stable blunt abdominal trauma and negative abdominal computed tomography. Acad Emerg Med. 2010;17:469-75.

Palamidessi N, Sinert R, Falzon L, Zehtabchi S. Nasogastric aspiration and lavage in emergency department patients with hematochezia or melena without hematemesis. Acad Emerg Med. 2010;17:126-32.

Wilkerson RG, Stone MB. Sensitivity of bedside ultrasound and supine anteroposterior chest radiographs for the identification of pneumothorax after blunt trauma. Acad Emerg Med. 2010;17:11-7.

Zehtabchi S, Nishijima DK. Impact of transfusion of fresh-frozen plasma and packed red blood cells in a 1:1 ratio on survival of emergency department patients with severe trauma. Acad Emerg Med. 2009;16:371-8.

To get started on your EBM review, or with questions or suggestions, please contact Shahriar Zehtabchi, MD (Shahriar.zehtabchi@downstate.edu).

CALLS AND MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS - CONT.

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This year 100 scholarships will be awarded for attendance to the Fundamentals of Pain Management: An Interdisciplinary Primer; an intensive two and one half day course primarily for 3rd and 4th year residents and other select interdisciplinary healthcare providers. Applicants in the fields of Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Neurology, and Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine are encouraged to apply. Additionally physical and occupational therapy, pharmacy, nursing, advanced practice nursing, psychology, physician assistant and social work trainees are welcome to apply. The scholarships are awarded based on competitive review of the applications plus a recommendation from your Residency Program Director or Department Director (for non-physician applicants).

To access additional information, please visit the APS website.

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CALL FOR “INNOVATIONS” 2013 ANNUAL MEETING(Formerly IEME - Innovations In Emergency Medical Education)

This year the SAEM Program Committee is proud to offer educators a new venue to present their educational advances. In past Annual Meetings, we presented Innovations in Emergency Medical Education (IEME) via table-top booths and occasionally a moderated session. For the 2013 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA the fertile ground laid by the initial offerings of IEME has helped us create a new dynamic and interactive environment as we present every Innovation in either a moderated poster (with hands-on tabletop demonstrations as needed) or oral power-point session; thus bringing diverse thoughts together in the same room in order to cultivate new ideas and approaches to undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education.

In addition, we will have three theme-based sessions on technology, didactics, and medical student education. We invite educators to submit their state-of-the-art innovation, not just for these themes, but for any new teaching strategy or tool.

The SAEM Innovations submission platform is now open and will close November 28, 2012, at 5:00 p.m. (Central).Sincerely,JoAnna Leuck, MD (JoAnna.Leuck@carolinashealthcare.org) and Laurie Thibodeau, MD (thibodl@mail.amc.edu)Co-Chairs – Innovations, Program CommitteeChristopher Ross, MD (cross@cookcountyhhs.org)Chair, Program Committee

Great Medical Student

Opportunity!

SAEM is looking for 17 energetic, self-starting, responsible, and enthusiastic

medical students to work with the SAEM Program Committee at the Annual Met-

ing in Atlanta, May 15-18, 2013.

Interested medical students, please visit SAEM.org for more information.

Call for Photographs for the Clinical Images

Exhibit at the 2013 SAEM Annual Meeting

SAEM is now accepting original high quality images relevant to the practice of Emergency medicine for presentation at the 2013 SAEM Annual Meeting in Atlanta. Accepted submis-sions will be displayed at the Clinical Images Exhibit and may be featured in the “Clinical Pearls” session or the “Visual Diagnosis” medi-cal student/resident contest.

For more information, please contact Michelle Iniguez at miniguez@saem.org or visit our web-site, SAEM.org.

SAEM Seeks Award Nominations for 2013

Master Clinician Bedside Teaching Award

Deadline: December 12, 2012

Young Investigator Awards Deadline: December 12, 2012

Hal Jayne Educational Excellence Award

Deadline: January 9, 2013

Excellence in Research Award Deadline: January 9, 2013

Advancement of Women in Academic

Emergency Medicine Award Deadline: January 9, 2013

John Marx Leadership Award

Deadline: January 9, 2013

For submission information, please see our website, www.saem.org.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS2015 AEM CONSENSUS CONFERENCE

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 15, 2013

Previous topics have included and will include (2013 and 2014):

• 2000: Errors in emergency medicine• 2001: The unraveling safety net• 2002: Quality and best practices in emergency care• 2003: Disparities in emergency care• 2004: Information technology in emergency medicine• 2005: Emergency research without informed consent• 2006: The science of surge• 2007: Knowledge translation• 2008: Simulation in emergency medicine• 2009: Public health in the emergency department:

surveillance, screening, and intervention• 2010: Beyond regionalization: integrated networks of

emergency care• 2011: Interventions to assure quality in the crowded

emergency department• 2012: Education Research in Emergency Medicine • 2013: Global Health and Emergency Care: A Research Agenda• 2014: Gender-specific Research in Emergency Medicine:

Investigate, Understand, and Translate How Gender Affects Patient Outcomes

Well-developed proposals will be reviewed on a competitive basis by a sub-committee of the AEM editorial board. Proceedings of the meeting and original contributions related to the topic will be published exclusively by AEM in its special topic issue in December, 2015.

Submitters are strongly advised to review proceedings of previous consensus conferences, which can be found in the past November and December issues of AEM, to guide the development of their proposals. These can be found open-access on the journal’s home page on Wiley Online Library - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acem.2011.18.issue-10/issuetoc

Submitters are also welcome to contact the journal’s editors or leaders of prior consensus conferences with any questions, or for copies of submissions from prior years.

Proposals must include the following:1. Introduction of the topic • brief statement of relevance • justification for this topic choice

2. Proposed conference chairs, and sponsoring SAEM interest groups or committees (if any)

3. Proposed conference agenda and proposed presenters • plenary lectures • panels • breakout topics and questions for discussion and

consensus-building

4. Anticipated audience • stakeholder groups/organizations • federal regulators • national researchers and educators • others

5. Anticipated budget, to include such items as: • travel costs • audiovisual equipment and other materials • publishing costs (brochures, syllabus, journal) • meals

6. Potential funding sources and strategies for securing conference funding.

How to submit your proposal.Proposals must be submitted electronically to aem@saem.org

no later than 5PM Eastern Daylight Time on April 15, 2013. Late submissions will not be considered. The review sub-committee may query submitters for additional information prior to making the final selection. Questions may be directed to aem@saem.org or to the editor-in-chief at editor@saem.org. ◗

The editors of Academic Emergency Medicine are now accepting proposals for the 16th annual AEM Consensus Conference to be held on May 13, 2015, the day before the SAEM Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.

Proposals must advance a topic relevant to emergency medicine that is conducive to the development of a research agenda, and be spearheaded by thought leaders from within the specialty. Consensus conference goals are to heighten awareness related to the topic, discuss the current state of knowledge about the topic, identify knowledge gaps, propose needed research, and issue a call to action to allow future progress. Importantly, the consensus conference is not a “state of the art” session, but is intended primarily to create the research agenda that is needed to advance our knowledge of the topic area.

 

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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 2013 SAEM ANNUAL MEETINGMAY 14TH – 18TH ATLANTA, GEORGIA

Abdominal/Gastrointestinal/Genitourinary AEM Consensus Conference - Global Health and Emergency Care: A Research AgendaAirway/Anesthesia/AnalgesiaCardiovascular – Basic SciencesCardiovascular – Clinical ResearchClinical Decision GuidelinesClinical Operations – PersonnelClinical Operations – ProcessesComputer TechnologyCritical Care/ResuscitationDiagnostic Technologies/RadiologyDisaster MedicineDisease/Injury PreventionEducationEMS/Out-of-Hospital – Cardiac ArrestEMS/Out-of-Hospital – Non-Cardiac ArrestEthics

GeriatricsHealth Policy ResearchHealth Services ResearchInfectious DiseasesInternational Emergency MedicineNeurologyObstetrics/GynecologyOrthopedicsPediatrics – Infectious DiseasesPediatrics – GeneralProfessional DevelopmentPsychiatry/Social IssuesPulmonaryResearch Design/Methodology/StatisticsSimulationToxicology/EnvironmentalTrauma

The Program Committee is accepting abstracts for review for presentation at the 2013 SAEM Annual Meeting. Authors are invited to submit original emergency medicine research in the following categories:

ABSTRACTS INSTRUCTIONS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE SAEM WEBSITE. THE SAEM ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION PLATFORM IS NOW OPEN AND

WILL CLOSE NOVEMBER 28, 2012, AT 5:00 P.M. (CENTRAL).As the reach of emergency medicine expands, SAEM recognizes that many abstracts traditionally submitted to the Annual Meeting are also pertinent to other national societies, and may be presented at their respective conferences. In an effort to provide a forum for SAEM Annual Meeting attendees to hear and experience the vast breadth of emergency medicine research, abstracts submitted to or presented at other, non-emergency medicine, national meetings within the preceding calendar year (June 2012 to May 2013) will be considered for presentation at the SAEM Annual Meeting. Original abstracts presented at SAEM 2012-2013 Regional Meetings or the 2013 CORD Academic Assembly will be considered.

Only reports of original research may be submitted. The data must not be published in a manuscript or e-publication prior to the first day of the Annual Meeting, except in abstract form when associated with a presentation at a non-emergency medicine national conference.

Abstracts accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting will be published in the Abstract Supplement, which will be available online as a special edition of Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM), the official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. SAEM strongly encourages authors to submit their manuscripts directly to AEM for consideration for print publication. AEM will notify authors of a decision regarding publication within 60 days of receipt of a manuscript.

For further information or questions, contact SAEM at saem@saem.org or (847) 813-9823.

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Publishing Guidelines SAEM invites submissions to the Newsletter pertaining to academic emergency medicine in the following areas:

Clinical practice Education in EM residents, off-service residents,

medical students, and fellows Faculty development Politics and economics as they pertain to the academic environment General announcements and notices Other pertinent topics

Materials may be submitted for consideration for publication in the SAEM Newsletter at

newsletter@saem.org Be sure to include the names and affiliations of authors and a means of contact.

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Publishing Guidelines SAEM invites submissions to the Newsletter pertaining to academic emergency medicine in the following areas:

Clinical practice Education in EM residents, off-service residents,

medical students, and fellows Faculty development Politics and economics as they pertain to the academic environment General announcements and notices Other pertinent topics

Materials may be submitted for consideration for publication in the SAEM Newsletter at

newsletter@saem.org Be sure to include the names and affiliations of authors and a means of contact.

Please submit ads to mgreketis@saem.org.

All ads are in full color at no additional charge. For details, please visit SAEM.org

EARLY VIEW for ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Academic Emergency Medicine has been loading articles on "Early View" as soon as they are processed now - so be sure to check this feature regularly on the journal's Wiley Online Li-brary (WOL) homepage, regularly. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1553-2712/earlyview

Academic Emergency Medicine on the Wiley Online Library

Platform

Make sure you keep checking the journal’s home page on the recently implemented platform, Wiley Online Library (WOL) - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1553-2712. Many new features appear in the form of “modules” and will be updated on a regular basis. The new platform is more ro-bust and easier to navigate, with enhanced online functionali-ty. Visit often and stay tuned for updates!

VIRTUAL ISSUES

"Virtual Issues" are now a key feature of the journal's home page. A virtual issue is basically just a collection of articles on a given topic. The idea is that a reader will go there to look for a particular issue, but then will see our other offerings on that topic, as well, increasing our full-text download numbers and helping insure the broadest dissemination of our authors' work.

We now have four "virtual issues" online. Go to to the jour-nal's home page on the Wiley Online Library (WOL) platform - "Find Issues" on the left-hand side and click on the fea-ture. Three additional virtual issues, in addition to the ini-tial geriatrics one, are up and running on: ultrasound, toxicolo-gy and injury prevention. Again, consult the "Find Issues" area and click on the desired issue. http:/onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111(ISSN)1553-2712.

Abstracts en Español!

Beginning with the September issue, Academic Emergency Medicine will be publishing the abstracts of the various articles in Spanish. They will be presented alongside the English ab-stracts in the online versions of each paper (pdf, html, and mobile apps). The Spanish abstracts will also be included in the print edition of the journal for any papers that originate in Spanish-speaking countries, or are likely to be of particular interest to emergency physicians in Spanish-speaking coun-tries.

This project would not be possible without technical assistance and generous funding from our publisher, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., and the language assistance of Emergencias, the journal of the Sociedad Española de Medicina de Urgencias y Emergencias (SEMES).

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Grant Writing Workshop hosted by the SAEM Research Committee. For questions, contact mmcmillian@saem.org

Make sure you’re on the right path, join SAEM for this one of a kind

leadership experience. Where leaders of emergency medicine will

discuss with participants; what makes a good leader, how to play to

your strengths, and what is your leadership compass.

Excellent opportunity for those starting off their career

or veterans who need new focus.

SAEM Leadership WorkshopMay 14-15, 2013

Atlanta, GA

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the department of emergency medicine

The Department of Emergency Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Boston is actively seeking qualified candidates to serve as Ultrasound Director, a core faculty position which holds an academic appointment at Harvard Medical School.

Highly qualified candidates who are (a) EM residency trained, (b) ABEM board certified or qualified, (c) have successfully completed an EM Ultrasound Fellowship program, and (d) have demonstrated excellence in residency and faculty education, teaching, research, and clinical scholarship are encouraged to apply.

The ultrasound curriculum at BIDMC is a robust program which includes EM resident rotations, advanced electives, medical student electives. There is a plan in place for an Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship. Since the inception of the ultrasound program, a uniquely constructed QA process has been in place to ensure maximal educational benefit for residents and for attendings.

The emergency department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is the primary site for the BIDMC Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency and has an annual patient census of 55,000. BIDMC is a Level I Trauma Center and a major adult tertiary referral center for New England, as well as a primary hospital for the surrounding communities. Principals only are encouraged to apply. Interested candidates should elec-tronically send a CV and letter of interest to:

Richard E. Wolfe, M.D.

Chief of Emergency Medicinec/o Maureen Blicker at mblicker@bidmc.harvard.edu

HMFP/APHMFP/CAPHMFP are equal opportunity employers and do not discriminate against applicants for employment or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetics, military service or veteran status or any other class protected by law. HMFP is also committed to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment women, minorities, veterans of the Vietnam Era, qualified disabled veterans, other eligible veterans, and disabled individuals.

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The Division of Emergency Medicine in the Department of Surgery at Stanford University seeks a Board Certified Clinician/Researcher to join the Division as an Assistant or Associate Professor in the Medical Center Line.

The major criteria for appointment for faculty in the Medical Center Line shall be excellence in the overall mix of clinical care, clinical teaching, scholarly activity that advances clinical medicine, and institutional service appropriate to the programmatic need the individual is expected to fulfill.

Faculty rank will be determined by the qualifications and experience of the successful candidate.

The successful applicant should have board certification in emergency medicine with an advanced degree and/or experience in clinical research. We are particularly interested in candidates who have a track record of excellence in research and experience in securing funding.

In addition to providing excellent clinical care, and teaching house staff and medical students, this new physician researcher will lead by example by writing grants and conducting research pursuant to his or her expertise. As such this person will also be expected to be an invaluable resource as a mentor for junior faculty, residents and medical students in the area of clinical research.

Applications will be reviewed beginning September 1st, 2012 and accepted until the position is filled.

Stanford University is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty. It welcomes nominations of and applications from women and members of minority groups, as well as others who would bring additional dimensions to the university's research, teaching and clinical missions.

Submit a CV, brief letter and the names of three references to:

James Quinn MD MS Chair of Search Committee Professor of Surgery/Emergency Medicine Research Director for Emergency Medicine, Stanford University Alway Building, M121 300 Pasteur Drive - MC: 5119 Stanford, CA 94305 (650) 725-9445 (650) 723-0121 (Fax) quinnj@stanford.edu

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Department of Emergency Medicine

Yale University School of Medicine

Advancing the Science and Practice of Emergency Medicine

The Department of Emergency Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine is

expanding to a total of 3 clinical sites that comprise Yale-New Haven Hospital with a combined

ED volume of 180,000 visits per year. We are seeking faculty at all levels with interests in

clinical care, education or research to enhance our existing strengths. The successful candidate

may be a full time clinician committed to excellence in patient care and emergency medicine

education or one that would want to join the academic faculty promoting scholarship to enhance

the field of emergency medicine. We offer an extensive faculty development program for

junior and more senior faculty. We have a well-established track record of interdisciplinary

collaboration with other renowned faculty, obtaining federal and private foundation funding,

and a mature research infrastructure supported by a faculty Research Director, a staff of research

associates and administrative assistants.

Eligible candidates must be residency-trained and board-certified/-prepared in emergency

medicine. Rank, protected time and salary will be commensurate with education, training and

experience.

Yale University is a world-class institution providing a wide array of benefits and research

opportunities.

To apply, please forward your CV and cover letter to Gail D’Onofrio, MD, MS Chair, via

email: jamie.petrone@yale.edu, or mail: Yale University School of Medicine, Department of

Emergency Medicine, 464 Congress Ave, P.O. Box 208062, New Haven, CT 06519-1315.

Yale University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. Women and members of

minority groups are encouraged to apply.

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Yale University School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine

Fellowship Programs

The Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine offers fellowships in multiple programs including Research, Ultrasound, Emergency Medical Services, and Global Health in New Haven, Connecticut.

The Research fellowship is a new 2-3 year program focused on training clinician scholars as independent researchers in Emergency Medicine. Scholars will earn a Master of Health Sciences degree from Yale combining clinical experience with extensive training in research methods, statistics and research design. With the guidance of research content experts and professional coach mentors, the scholar will develop a research program, complete a publishable project and submit a grant application prior to completion of the program. The program is credentialed by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. For further information, contact Gail D’Onofrio MD, MS, gail.donofrio@yale.edu

The fellowship in Emergency Ultrasound is a 1-year program that will prepare graduates to lead an academic and/or community emergency ultrasound program. This fellowship satisfies recommendations of all major societies for the interpretation of emergency ultrasound as well as RDMS/RDCS/RVT certification, and will include exposure to aspects of program development, quality assurance, properties of coding and billing, and research. The program consists of structured time in the emergency department performing bedside examinations, examination QA and review, research into new applications, and education both in the academic and community arenas. We have a particular focus on emergency echo and utilize state of the art equipment, as well as wireless image review. For further information, contact Chris Moore, MD, RDMS, RDCS, chris.moore@yale.

The fellowship in EMS is a 1-2 year program that provides training in all aspects of EMS, including academics, administration, medical oversight, research, teaching, and clinical components. The program focuses on operational EMS, with the fellow actively participating in the system’s physician response team, and all fellows offered training to the Firefighter I or II level. A 1-year MPH program is available for fellows choosing the 2-year program. The fellowship graduate will be prepared for a career in academic EMS and/or medical direction of a local or regional EMS system, and for the new ABEM subspecialty examination. For further information, contact David Cone, MD, dave.cone@yale.edu.

The Global Health and International Emergency Medicine fellowship is a 2 year program offered by Yale partnering with Yale and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Fellows will develop a strong foundation in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, Public Health in Developing Countries and Evidence Based International Medicine. With joint administration through Yale DEM and the LSHTM, the fellowship serves to train future leaders in Global Health and International Emergency Medicine. Fellows will earn a Masters of Science degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The program provides six months of field experience, ICRC humanitarian assistance training, DTM&H certification, and structured EMS and disaster response training. For further information, contact the fellowship director, Dr. Simon Kotlyar at simon.kotlyar@yale.edu.

All require the applicant to be board prepared/certified EM physicians and offer an appointment as a Clinical Instructor to the faculty of the Department of Emergency Medicine at

Yale University School of Medicine. Applications are available at the Yale Emergency Medicine web page http://medicine.yale.edu/emergencymed/ and are due by November 15, 2012.

Yale University and Yale-New Haven Hospital are affirmative action, equal opportunity employers and women and members of minority groups are encouraged to apply.

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The Department of Emergency Medicine at the Alpert Medical School (AMS) of Brown University and the University Emergency Medicine Foundation (UEMF) has openings for 2 full-time Academic Track Assistant or Associate Professors and 1 Clinician Educator position. This is an outstanding opportunity to join a well-established 86-member academic emergency medicine group with a highly competitive 4-year emergency medicine residency program, 9 Divisions, and 8 Fellowships. Candidates should have a defined scholarly interest and previous productivity in an area of emergency medicine research, education or clinical operations. Minimum requirements: Completion of an ACGME-approved Emergency Medicine residency; ABEM certified or eligible; meet requirements for and obtain Rhode Island Medical Licensure and clinical privileges in Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital/Hasbro Children's Hospital and The Miriam Hospital. Assistant/Associate Professor Position requirements: Previous academic & scholarly work and productivity in emergency medicine; Defined research area of focus with previous publications and grant funding, or defined area of expertise and productivity in graduate or undergraduate emergency medicine education. Clinician Educator Requirements: Excellent clinical EM skills and strong teaching portfolio and/or interest and skills in ED operations. UEMF provides ED staffing to:

• Rhode Island Hospital (101,000 adult visits yearly), Southeastern New England’s only Level I trauma center. • Hasbro Children’s Hospital (52,000 visits yearly), the region’s only Pediatric ED. • The Miriam Hospital (58,000 visits yearly) a Solucient Top 100 hospital for cardiovascular care.

Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the positions are filled or the search is closed. University Emergency Medicine Foundation, an EEO/AA employer, actively solicits applications from women, minority and protected groups. It is the foundation, not Brown University, which is recruiting candidates.

EMERGENCY MEDICINE FACULTY POSITIONS AT BROWN UNIVERSITY, RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL and THE MIRIAM HOSPITAL

CV’s should be sent to: Brian J. Zink, MD

Frances Weeden Gibson - Edward A. Iannuccilli, MD Professor & Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine

Rhode Island Hospital/The Miriam Hospital 593 Eddy Street, Claverick Building, 2nd Floor

Providence, RI 02903 email: bbordieri@lifespan.org

Dear Colleagues; We are full speed ahead with resident recruitment. As the newest Academy, ADIEM is moving forward with its goals since inception in May. A few updates are noted below. Membership - We are off to a great start with close to 70 members to date in ADIEM. We are excited with our progress and invite you to join us. ADIEM is a vibrant group of students, residents and faculty. There is strength in numbers as we share our collective thoughts and ideas on how to increase diversity in EM and address disparities in health care. The Membership Committee, under Ugo Ezenkwele’s leadership, continues to reach out to colleagues to engage them to join. Please reach out to students, particularly from programs without EM residencies, i.e. Meharry, Howard and others and encourage them to join ADIEM. Douglas Ander, our Clerkship Director at Emory, has been a great ambassador for Morehouse and we encourage you to follow-up and engage your Chairs, PD’s and CD’s in the value of joining ADIEM.

Didactics/Abstracts - With leadership from Lisa Moreno-Walton and Kevin Ferguson, ADIEM has submitted 3 didactics and is partner-ing with GEMA on an additional didactic for SAEM. With a total of 4 submissions, we are confident at least one will be accepted. The didactics that may not be accepted will be highlighted in the ADIEM business meeting at SAEM. We encourage members who plan to or have submitted abstracts to SAEM on issues of diversity and disparities to reach out to ADIEM. We are here to lend support.

Communication/Website - Tyson Pillow continues to work on building a robust ADIEM website with SAEM. The new website for SAEM will be unveiled by Dec/Jan and we plan to populate the site with updates from ADIEM and links to relevant organizations. Stay tuned.

We wish you the very best this holiday season and the upcoming new year. Sheryl Heron, MD, MPH, FACEP Chair—ADIEM Associate Professor/Associate Residency Director Assistant Dean—Clinical Education Associate Director—Emory Center for Injury Control Emory University

Join ADIEM today! Our Mission:

To promote equal access to quality

healthcare and the elimination of disparities in treatment and outcomes through education and research

To enhance the retention and promotion

of those historically under-represented in medicine and to create an inclusive environment for the training of emergency medicine providers

To enhance the professional development

of all EM faculty and residents with respect to culturally competent medical care

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University of Wisconsin - Madison

Successful candidates will join a faculty of 26+ emergency physicians & pediatric emergency physicians in our Division of Emergency Medicine. Enjoy the benefits of living in the nation's most livable city (CNN/Money Magazine/Forbes 2011). Compensation and benefits are competitive. Send your CV and cover letter to: agh@medicine.wisc.edu, Azita G. Hamedani, MD MPH Chief, Emergency Medicine, F2/217 CSC, MC 3280, 600 Highland Ave., Madison, WI 53792.

The UW Madison is an EEO/AA Employer, Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. Wisconsin caregiver and open records laws apply. A background check will be conducted prior to employment. www.wisc.edu/employment/madison.php

Emergency PhysicianExceptional opportunity for motivated Emergency Physician (BP/BC) to join Emergency Medicine faculty. Specific opportunities exist in medical education, administration/ quality, and research.

EM faculty provide clinical services in the Emergency Department (ED) of the University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics (UWHC). UWHC is a busy, university-based, referral hospital; one of only two academic medical centers in the state, and a Level I Trauma and Burn center for both adult and pediatric patients.

Pediatric Emergency PhysicianExceptional opportunity for motivated Pediatric Emergency Physician (BP/BC) to join our Emergency Medicine team.

American Family Children’s Hospital offers comprehensive care for the children of Wisconsin with all pediatric medical and surgical subspecial-ties represented. We are a Level I pediatric trauma and burn center with active flight and ground transport programs. Our new ED is well staffed and well resourced, including dedicated pediatric nurses, child life, social work, case management, as well as pharmacy and radiologic services located within the department. We have experienced tremendous growth in the last four years, with an 80% increase in pediatric volume.

Pediatric Emergency Medicine is a section of four board-certified Pediatric Emergency Medicine physicians within Emergency Medicine. Academic opportunities exist in clinical and educa-tional research, simulation, EMS, and more.

Bring your skills in diagnosis, healing, teaching and inquiry to one of Emergency Medicine’s largest and best programs. Faculty: Emory University seeks exceptional clinician-educators and clinician-scholars to advance our broad teaching and research missions. We provide clinical care, teaching and research support for 5 academic metro Atlanta emergency depart-ments encompassing 250,000 patient visits. These include 3 Emory Healthcare sites, the Atlanta VA Medical Center, and Grady Memorial Hospital with its new state of the art Marcus Trauma Center.

Director for Ultrasound: Emory seeks an excellent candidate for the Director of Emergency Ultrasound. The Department has extensive ultrasound privileges, multiple machines in each ED, a high functioning Section with three fellowship trained faculty,a well-trained general faculty, a dedicated resident ultrasound experience, ultrasound fellowship program, and resources and infrastructure for research. Candidates should be fellowship trained, or have equivalent credentials, and leadership experience.

Fellowships: Emory offers an exceptional environment for post-residency training. We will be considering applicants for 2013 for the following fellowships: Emory/CDC Medical Toxicology, Pre-Hospital and Disaster Medicine, Clinical Research, Injury Control & Prevention, Neuro-injury, Administration/Quality, Ultrasound, Biomedical Informatics and Observation Medi-cine. Candidates must be EM residency trained or Board certified.

For further information, visit our web site at www.emory.edu/em, then contact: Katherine Heilpern, MD, Professor and Chair

Department of Emergency Medicine 531 Asbury Circle , N-340, Atlanta, GA 30322

Phone: (404)778-5975 / Fax: (404)778-2630 / Email: ida.jones-render@emory.edu Emory is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply

ATLANTA, GA DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE

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University of Washington, School of Medicine

Division of Emergency Medicine Outstanding Opportunity for an Academic Emergency Physician

The University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine is seeking highly motivated, board prepared/certified, academically oriented Emergency Medicine physicians. There are excellent and wide ranging opportunities for those who seek a career with an academic focus in research (basic science or clinical physician-scientist) and medical education (clinician-teacher).Opportunities to collaborate with well-established researchers in areas such as Resuscitation, Injury Prevention, Public Health, Health Services, Pre-Hospital Care, Simulation and many others are abundant. There are also opportunities to work with the UW Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, which offers course work focused on faculty development and general medical education, including their nationally recognized Teaching Scholars Program. Full-time faculty may be recruited at the rank of Assistant, Associate or Full Professor commensurate with experience.

Faculty will work at the Harborview Medical Center ED, which is the only Level I Trauma Center for a 4-state region and sees 65,000 patients per year, and the University of Washington Medical Center ED, a tertiary/quaternary care facility that sees 26,000 patients per year.

The UW School of Medicine is a regional resource for Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho - the WWAMI states. The UW School of Medicine is recognized for its excellence in clinical training, its world-class research initiatives, and its commitment to community service.

If you are interested in joining a world-class Emergency Medicine Residency program and growing Division of Emergency Medicine at the highly acclaimed UW School of Medicine please send your CV to: Susan Stern, MD; Professor and Division Head, Emergency Medicine; Harborview Medical Center; 325 9th Avenue; Box 359702; Seattle, WA 98104-2499 (sstern@uw.edu).

The UW is building a culturally diverse faculty and strongly encourages applications from women and minority candidates. The University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

University of Washington, School of Medicine

Division of Emergency Medicine Outstanding Opportunity for an Academic Emergency Physician

The University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine is seeking highly motivated, board prepared/certified, academically oriented Emergency Medicine physicians. There are excellent and wide ranging opportunities for those who seek a career with an academic focus in research (basic science or clinical physician-scientist) and medical education (clinician-teacher).Opportunities to collaborate with well-established researchers in areas such as Resuscitation, Injury Prevention, Public Health, Health Services, Pre-Hospital Care, Simulation and many others are abundant. There are also opportunities to work with the UW Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics, which offers course work focused on faculty development and general medical education, including their nationally recognized Teaching Scholars Program. Full-time faculty may be recruited at the rank of Assistant, Associate or Full Professor commensurate with experience.

Faculty will work at the Harborview Medical Center ED, which is the only Level I Trauma Center for a 4-state region and sees 65,000 patients per year, and the University of Washington Medical Center ED, a tertiary/quaternary care facility that sees 26,000 patients per year.

The UW School of Medicine is a regional resource for Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho - the WWAMI states. The UW School of Medicine is recognized for its excellence in clinical training, its world-class research initiatives, and its commitment to community service.

If you are interested in joining a world-class Emergency Medicine Residency program and growing Division of Emergency Medicine at the highly acclaimed UW School of Medicine please send your CV to: Susan Stern, MD; Professor and Division Head, Emergency Medicine; Harborview Medical Center; 325 9th Avenue; Box 359702; Seattle, WA 98104-2499 (sstern@uw.edu).

The UW is building a culturally diverse faculty and strongly encourages applications from women and minority candidates. The University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

Academic Emergency PhysiciansExceptional opportunity for highly motivated BC/BP Emergency Medicine Physicians to join the faculty of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine. Rank and tenure status are dependent upon qualifi cations of candidate.

We are seeking applicants of all academic ranks who are interested in developing a career in academic emergency medicine. A commitment to excellence in all areas of the academic mission and demonstrated commitment to the production of scholarly work are requirements. Faculty will teach residents from one of the longest running EM training programs in the nation, as well as off -service residents and senior medical students.

Methodist and Wishard Hospitals are Level 1 Trauma Centers with a combined patient volume of greater than 210,000 visits per year. Riley Hospital for Children is a Level 1 Children’s Trauma Center and Burn Unit, seeing 30,000 visits annually and an admission rate of 25%. Riley hosts both EM and Pediatrics residents. BC/BP in Pediatric Emergency Medicine or combined BC/BP in Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics are required at Riley. University Hospital is a tertiary care facility, with 15,000 visits annually and an admis-sion rate near 30%.

IU Health Physicians (IUHP) is a multispecialty practice plan affi liated with the IUSM. Physicians at IUSM are dually employed by IUHP. Please contact Cherri Hobgood, MD, Professor and Chair (chobgood@iupui.edu) or FAX (317)656-4216 to learn more. IU is an EEO/AA Employer, M/F/D.

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Department of Emergency Medicine Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

The Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is expanding its faculty to help staff a new 40,000 sq ft, 84-bed state-of-the-art ED that will open in the fall of 2013. The 72-acre Harbor campus includes a 550-bed public teaching hospital and Level-1 trauma center, and the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute with an annual budget of over $50 million. The Medical Center sponsors 39 ACGME-accredited residency and fellowship programs and serves as a major training site for medical students from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA where faculty hold academic appointments. The DEM sponsors a fully-accredited residency program with 15 residents/year in a PGY1-3 format and fellowship programs in pediatric emergency medicine (PEM), emergency medical services (EMS), clinical research, medical education, emergency ultrasound and global health. The majority of the Department’s faculty are full professors with track records of achievement in the areas of education, research, service and mentorship. We are looking for highly-motivated individuals at all levels of experience to join our professional family in its mission of providing care to the working poor of our community while collaborating with each other to contribute to the growth of Emergency Medicine as an academic discipline. Applicants must be residency trained in Emergency Medicine and ideal applicants will be fellowship trained, particularly in the areas of research, PEM, EMS, sports medicine or critical care. The LA County Department of Health Services offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, and is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. Harbor is located in the South Bay area of LA, which has a year-round temperate climate and provides faculty the option of living in beautiful beach cities with outstanding school districts.

Applicants should email a letter of interest and CV to: Dr. Robert S. Hockberger, M.D. at hock@emedharbor.edu.

The Department of Emergency Medicine (DEM) at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is expanding its faculty to help staff a new 40,000 sq ft, 84-bed state-of-the-art ED that will open in the fall of 2013. The 72-acre Harbor campus includes a 550-bed public teaching hospital and Level-1 trauma center, and the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute with an annual budget of over $50 million. The Medical Center sponsors 39 ACGME-accredited residency and fellowship programs and serves as a major training site for medical students from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA where faculty hold academic appointments.

The DEM sponsors a fully-accredited residency program with 15 residents/year in a PGY1-3 format and fellowship programs in pediatric emergency medicine (PEM), emergency medical services (EMS), clinical research, medical education, emergency ultrasound and global health. The majority of the Department’s faculty are full professors with track records of achievement in the areas of education, research, service and mentorship. We are looking for highly-motivated individuals at all levels of experience to join our professional family in its mission of providing care to the working poor of our community while collaborating with each other to contribute to the growth of Emergency Medicine as an academic discipline.

Applicants must be residency trained in Emergency Medicine and ideal applicants will be fellowship trained, particularly in the areas of research, PEM, EMS, sports medicine or critical care. The LA County Department of Health Services offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, and is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. Harbor is located in the South Bay area of LA, which has a year-round temperate climate and provides faculty the option of living in beautiful beach cities with outstanding school districts.

Applicants should email a letter of interest and CV to: Dr. Robert S. Hockberger, M.D. at hock@emedharbor.edu.

IU Department of Emergency Medicine Seeks Academic Pediatric Emergency Medicine Division Chief

Exceptional opportunity for highly motivated board-certifi ed Pediatric Emergency Medicine Physician to join the faculty of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine as Academic Pediatric Emergency Medicine Division Chief.

We seek an academic leader at any rank who is interested in leading the development of an expanded academic emergency medi-cine program at Indiana University. Excellence in all academic missions and a demonstrated commitment to scholarly work are requirements. Th e successful candidate will be involved in all components of the academic enterprise. Specifi cally, we seek an energetic leader to develop our Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship as well as create institutional opportunities for our faculty across the research spectrum. Ideally, this person will lead an independent research program. Th is faculty will also teach residents from one of the longest running EM training programs in the nation, as well as EM/Peds and pediatric residents. Clinical services and educational oversight occur in the nationally recognized Riley Hospital for Children.

Riley is located on the IU Medical Center campus in downtown Indianapolis and has an annual volume of 30,000 patient visits, with an admission rate near 25%. Th e hospital is undergoing a $300m expansion that will include a new state of the art ED slated to be completed in 2013. Riley is a Level 1 children’s trauma center and burn unit, and a tertiary care facility.

Certifi cation in Pediatric Emergency Medicine or combined certifi cation in Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics are required. Rank and tenure status are dependent upon qualifi cations of candidate. Please contact Cherri Hobgood, MD (chobgood@iupui.edu), Celeste Kichefski (ckichefski@iuhealth.org) or FAX (317)656-4216 to learn more. IU is an EEO/AA Employer, M/F/D.

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Join Our Emergency Medicine Team The Division of Emergency Medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in alliance with Fletcher Allen Health Care is seeking both applications and nominations for outstanding candidates for the following Emergency Medicine openings. Fletcher Allen Health Care is the teaching hospital of the University of Vermont College of Medicine and is an ACS verified Level I Trauma Center for both adult and pediatric patients, and a major tertiary referral center for the state of Vermont and upstate New York. With an annual census in excess of 60,000 patients, the emergency department is known for high quality patient care and dedicated teaching faculty.

Chief of Emergency Medicine

The Chief will be responsible for clinical program development, medical student teaching, residency training and development of research programs. The Chief will also serve as clinical leader of Emergency Medicine in our affiliated medical center, Fletcher Allen Health Care. The Applicant must be board certified in Emergency Medicine and eligible for licensure in the State of Vermont with experience in the administrative, teaching, clinical, and research activities of an academic division of emergency medicine. Interested individuals should submit electronically their curriculum vitae with a cover letter and contact information for four references to: Steven M. Grant, MD, Steven.Grant@vtmednet.org or apply on-line at https://www.uvmjobs.com.

Emergency Physician or Pediatrician with Fellowship Training in Pediatric Emergency Medicine

This physician should desire to pursue a career in academic emergency medicine and must be board certified or board prepared in Emer-gency Medicine or Pediatrics and Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Preference will be given to those with experience in teaching, clinical, and research activities. Interested individuals should submit electronically their curriculum vitae with a cover letter and contact informa-tion for four references to: Ray E. Keller, MD, FACEP at Ray.Keller@vtmednet.org or apply on-line at https://www.uvmjobs.com.

Emergency Medicine Physician

Applicants must be board certified in Emergency Medicine and eligible for licensure in the State of Vermont with experience in the administra-tive, teaching, clinical, and research activities of an academic division of emergency medicine. Interested individuals should submit electroni-cally their curriculum vitae with a cover letter and contact informa-tion for four references to: Ray E. Keller, MD, FACEP at Ray.Keller@vtmednet.org or apply on-line at https://www.uvmjobs.com.

*Physicians will be appointed at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or Professor (clinical scholar pathway) commensurate with years of experience and accomplishments.The University is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through their research, teaching, and/or service. Applicants are requested to include in their cover letter information about how they will further this goal. The University of Vermont is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications from women and people of diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds are encouraged. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.

EMERGENCY MEDICINE FACULTY ◊ Clinician-Educator ◊ Clinical Researcher ◊ Ultrasound◊

The Department of Emergency Medicine at East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine seeks BC/BP emergency physicians and pediatric emergency physicians for tenure or clinical track positions at the rank of assistant professor or above, depending on qualifications. We are expanding our faculty to increase our cadre of clinician-educators and further develop programs in pediatric EM, ultrasound, and clinical research. Our current faculty possesses diverse interests and expertise leading to extensive state and national-level involvement. The emergency medicine residency is well-established and includes 12 EM and 2 EM/IM residents per year. We treat more than 110,000 patients per year in a state-of-the-art ED at Vidant Medical Center. VMC is an 860 bed level I trauma, cardiac, and regional stroke center. Our tertiary care catchment area includes more than 1.5 million people in eastern North Carolina, many of whom arrive via our integrated mobile critical care and air medical service. The ED expanded into a new children’s ED in July 2012, and a new children’s hospital is also under construction. Greenville, NC is a fast-growing university community located near beautiful North Carolina beaches. Cultural and recreational opportunities are abundant. Compensation is competitive and commensurate with qualifications; excellent fringe benefits are provided. Successful applicants will possess outstanding clinical and teaching skills and qualify for appropriate privileges from ECU Physicians and VMC.

Confidential inquiry may be made to Theodore Delbridge, MD, MPH, Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine (delbridget@ecu.edu).

ECU is an EEO/AA employer and accommodates individuals with disabilities. Applicants must comply with the Immigration Reform and Control Act. Proper documentation of identity and employability required at the time of employment. Current references must be provided upon request

www.ecu.edu/ecuem 252-744-1418

THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCYMEDICINE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMS

WASHINGTON DC-The Department of Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University is offering Fellowship positions beginning in July 2013:

Disaster/EMS International Emergency MedicineED Operations & Leadership Travel & TransportUltrasound ToxicologyHealth Policy Operations ResearchResearch TelemedicineExtreme Environmental

Fellows receive an academic appointment at George Washington University School of Medicine and work clinically at a site staffed by the Department. The Department offers Fellows a common interdisciplinary curriculum, focusing on research methodologies and grant writing. Tuition support for an MPH or equivalent degree is also provided.

Complete descriptions of all programs, application instructions and Fellowship Director contacts can be found at:http://www.gwemed.edu/fellowships/

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-The Department of Emergency Medicine of the George Washington University is seeking physicians for our academic practice. Physicians are employed by Medical Faculty Associates, an independent, University-affiliated, not-for-profit multispecialty physician group. The Department provides staffing for the Emergency Units of George Washington University Hospital, the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and the DC Veterans' Administration Medical Center. The Department sponsors an Emergency Medicine Residency, 8 Emergency Medicine Fellowships and a variety of student programs.

We are seeking physicians who will participate in our clinical andeducational programs and contribute to the Department's research and consulting agenda. Rank and salary are commensurate with experience.

Basic Qualifications: Physicians should be residency trained in Emergency Medicine. University faculty rank will be commensurate with experience. Application Procedure: A CV is considered a completed application. Review of applications will begin on October 10, 2012 and continue until all positions are filled. Please submit CV by mail to Robert Shesser MD, Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 2B-417, Washington DC 20037 or by email at: rshesser@mfa.gwu.edu.

The George Washington University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Ac-tion employer.

www.gwemed.edu

Heal the sick, advance the science, share the knowledge.

The Department of Emergency Medicine, Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida is seeking a full-time Emergency Medicine physician. This job provides the opportunity to join a dynamic faculty with commitment to practice, education and research in a nearly 30,000 visit/year high acuity department.

Mayo Clinic's new state-of-the-art regional referral hospital opened in April 2008, integrating our inpatient and outpatient practice on a single 400-acre campus along the inter-coastal waterway. Our ED has been praised for its cutting-edge design and we have been visited by many nationally and internationally who are interested in reproducing something similar. Equipment is state of the art and updated regularly. Our ED environment is a unique group of outstanding physicians and allied health staff who share an unusually friendly camaraderie and interest in providing the very best patient care. Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville is a 370-physician practice with a national and international referral base. Northeast Florida's coastal location offers a wonderful climate with many outdoor recreational activities.

The successful candidate must be an individual with a demonstrated interest in academic emergency medicine as proven by performance in residency or fellowship training or faculty positions. EM residency trained, ABEM-certifi cation/preparedness and eligibility for Florida medical license required. An excellent, comprehensive salary and benefi ts package is being offered. To learn more about Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, or to apply, please visit:www.mayoclinic.org/physician-jobs, referencing job # 11892BR.

Interested individuals can also submit a letter of interest and curriculum vitae to:

Scott Silvers, MDChair, Department of Emergency MedicineMayo Clinic • 4500 San Pablo Road • Jacksonville, FL 32224 E-mail: silvers.scott@mayo.edu

Mayo Foundation is an affi rmative action and equal opportunity employer and educator. Post-offer/pre-employment drug screening is required.

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DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL

A Major Teaching Affiliate of Harvard Medical School

The Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital is seeking candidates for faculty positions. Special consideration will be given to those with an established track record in clinical or laboratory research and a commitment to excellence in clinical care and teaching. Academic appointment is at Harvard Medical School and is commensurate with scholarly achievements.

MGH is co-sponsor of the 4-year BWH/MGH Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program. The ED at MGH is a high volume, high acuity level 1 trauma and burn center for both adult and pediatric patients, and includes a 32-bed Observation Unit. The annual ED visit volume is ~97,000.

The successful candidate will join a faculty of 37 academic emergency physicians in a department with active research and teaching programs, as well as fellowship programs in research, global health, medical simulation, ultrasonography, and wilderness medicine. Candidates must have completed an accredited residency program in EM and have at least 4 years of training/experience.

Inquiries should be accompanied by a curriculum vitae and may be addressed to:

David F. M. Brown, MD, FACEP Vice Chairman Department of Emergency Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital, Founders 114 55 Fruit Street Boston, Massachusetts 02114 e-mail: dbrown2@partners.org

Massachusetts General Hospital is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Peoria, Illinois - OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, the major teaching affiliate of Emergency Medicine -University of Illinois College of Medicine -Peoria is seeking clinical and core faculty physicians for full and part-time opportunities. Exceptional opportunity with an experienced and progressive hospital that opened a new ED in 2010. EM residency, Level 1 Trauma Center, flight program, base station, and 88,000 emergency department visits annually. Greater Peoria has a metro population of 350,000, offers a vibrant, energetic community, active riverfront, civic center, with cultural activities and sporting events. Please contact: Stacey E. Morin OSF Healthcare System 1420 West Pioneer Parkway | Peoria, IL | 61615 p (309) 683-8354 stacey.e.morin@osfhealthcare.org

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Emergency Medicine Faculty

The Department of Emergency Medicine at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School is seeking outstanding ABEM/ABOEM board certified or prepared emergency physicians for our growing department.

Our residency program is in its third year, we have an EMS/Disaster Medicine Fellowship and our Division of Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound has just started recruiting for our new Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship. The department has a growing toxicology service and an active clinical research program. We are currently planning for new initiatives including an observation unit and an urgent care center.

The department is active at all levels of medical student education including a mandatory 4th year medical student clerkship and an active Emergency Medicine Interest group. Opportunities exist for involvement in research, EMS, Ultrasound, Toxicology, new ventures and all levels of medical student, resident and fellow education.

Our major teaching affiliate is Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, a 580-bed tertiary care facility and Level One Trauma Center. The Emergency Department sees nearly 70,000 adult and 25,000 pediatric patients (in a separate pediatric emergency department) annually.

Qualified candidates should send a letter of intent and curriculum vitae to: Robert Eisenstein, MD, FACEP, Interim Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 1 Robert Wood Johnson Place, MEB 104, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08903; E-mail: eisensrm@umdnj.edu; Call: 732-235-8717; Fax: 732-235-7379. Academic appointment is commensurate with experience. UMDNJ is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Department of Emergency Medicine of the Texas A&M Health Science Center, Corpus Christi campus is expanding its faculty and has openings for academic career oriented emergency physicians. Openings exist for individuals interested in critical care, toxicology, pediatrics, research, residency administration, as well as clinical faculty members.

All faculty members enjoy generous protected academic time as a member of a progressive emergency medicine residency team. Clinical responsibilities take place in a tertiary referral center / regional trauma center with full resident coverage. These positions come with a faculty appointment with the Texas A&M Health Science Center, College of Medicine and an excellent remuneration package.

Corpus Christi is a family recreation paradise with expansive Gulf Coast beaches, and home to some of the best fishing, boating, windsurfing and kite-boarding in the country.

Interested applicants should contact:Gretchen Moen – Physician Recruiter EmCare®, South Division(214) 712-2427 Gretchen.Moen@EmCare.com

RESEARCH DIRECTOR

Department of Emergency Medicine University of California, Irvine School of Medicine

The University of California, Irvine is recruiting for a full-time faculty member with MD or PhD to serve as Research Director, in the Clinical Scholar (Clinical X) Series at the Associate or full Professor level. Candidates for the Clinical Scholar Series will have demonstrated an independent research program and a nationally recognized track record in scholarly activity including extramural funding. Successful candidate will be tasked with faculty development to foster grant pursuit and funding, and mentorship of junior faculty and residents. PhD methodologist/statistician already on department faculty. With MD degree, board certification in EM is required. A subspecialty fellowship or Masters degree, or both is strongly desired. Appropriate rank and series commensurate with qualifications. UC Irvine Medical Center is a 472-bed tertiary care hospital with all residencies. The ED is a progressive 37-bed Level I Trauma Center with 42,000 patients, in urban Orange County. Collegial relationships with all services. Excellent salary and benefits with incentive plan. To apply please log onto UC Irvine’s RECRUIT located at https://recruit.ap.uci.edu. Applicants should complete an on-line application profile and upload the following application material electronically to be considered for the position.

1. Cover Letter 2. Curriculum Vitae 3. Names of five referees

UCI is an equal opportunity employer committed to excellence through diversity.

The Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama School of Medicine is seeking talented residency trained Emergency Medicine physicians at all academic ranks to join our faculty. The University offers both tenure and non tenure earning positions.

The University of Alabama Hospital is a 903-bed teaching hospital, with a state of the art emergency department that occupies an area the size of a football field. The Department treats over 75,000 patients annually and houses Alabama’s only designated Level I trauma center. The Department’s dynamic, challenging emergency medicine residency training program is the only one of its kind in the State of Alabama.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a major research center with over $440 million in NIH and other extramural funding. The Department of Emergency Medicine is a site for the NIH-funded Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) and for the Protocolized Care of Early Sepsis Shock trial (ProCESS). The Department has been highly successful in developing extramural research support in this warmly collaborative institution.

Birmingham Alabama is a vibrant, diverse, beautiful city located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The metropolitan area is home to over one million people, who enjoy recreational activities year round because of its mild southern Climate. Birmingham combines big city amenities with Southern charm and hospitality.

A highly competitive salary is offered. Applicants must be EM board eligible or certified. UAB is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and family-friendly environment in which all faculty and staff can excel and achieve work/life balance irrespective of ethnicity, gender, faith, and sexual orientation. UAB also encourages applications from individuals with disabilities and veterans

A pre-employment background investigation is performed on candidates selected for employment.

Please send your curriculum vitae to: Janyce Sanford, M.D., Associate Professor & Chair of Emergency Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Department of Emergency Medicine; 619 South 19th Street; OHB 251; Birmingham, AL 35249-7013

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Membership Application

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FUTURE SAEM ANNUAL MEETINGS

2013SAEM Annual Meeting May 14-18The Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta, GA

AEM Consensus ConferenceMay 15, 2013Topic: “Global Health and Emergency Care: A Research Agenda”Co-Chairs: Stephan Hargarten, MD, MPH

Mark Hauswald, MD Jon Mark Hirshon, MD, MPH Ian B.K. Martin, MD

SAEM Leadership ForumMay 14-15, 2013Topics: “Leadership”“Developing and Sustaining a Vision”“Strategic Planning”“Building a Team”“Conflict Resolution”“How to Run a Meeting”“ED Operations Overview”“Change Management”“Negotiating for Your Dept./Faculty”“Overview of Dept. Finances”“Communication Skills”

2014SAEM Annual Meeting May 14-17Sheraton Hotel, Dallas, TX

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