MEMC - GREAT Rome (Italy), 05/09/2015 - 09/09/2015 Topic: Critical Care
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POST-GRADUATE TRAINING OF FACULTY AT NATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE – CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE CONFERENCES
J. Shiber 1, E. Fontane 1
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Uf College Of Medicine, Jacksonville, Usa
Background: There are numerous conferences advertised as some combination of Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine (EM-CCM) but the background and qualifications of the speakers at these conferences is not well known <FILE IMAGE='137_20150524150431.jpg'> Methods: Review of the course programs for the training and background of the faculty speakers at seven prominent national EM-CCM conferences from 2009 -2012: ACEP Scientific Assembly – CCM Tract, Critical Points: Emergency Critical Care, The Weil Symposium on Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, Emergency and Critical Care Medicine -The Cutting Edge, Florida Emergency Physicians Symposium on Critical Care in the Emergency Department, U. MD – The Crashing Patient, and Resuscitation. Confirmation of post-graduate training was performed by on-line research. We compared the percentage of speakers trained in both EM and CCM with the post-graduate training of the speakers at the ACEP Pediatric Emergency Medicine Assembly who have training in both Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine as compared to Emergency Medicine or Pediatrics alone. Results: There were a total of 221 speakers at the seven studied EM-CCM conferences from 2009-2012: faculty trained in EM-CCM 42 (19.1%) and trained in EM alone 179 (80.9%). There were 58 speakers at the ACEP Pediatric Emergency Medicine Assembly from 2010-2012: faculty trained in Peds-EM 29 (50.0%), Pediatrics plus subspecialty [critical care, cardiology, dermatology, etc.] 23 (39.6%), EM plus subspecialty [ultrasound, toxicology, etc.] 4 (6.9%), Pediatrics alone 1 (1.7%), and EM alone 1 (1.7%). Conclusions: In the included EM-CCM conferences, less than 1/5 of speakers were trained in both EM and CCM with the overwhelming majority trained in only EM. Using the ACEP Pediatric EM Assembly as a comparison model, there were a much larger percentage of dually trained speakers in either Peds-EM or Peds Subspecialty, with only a very small percentage of speakers trained in EM alone or Peds alone. We believe that conference directors should be encouraged to invite speakers who have the appropriate training (additional residency or fellowship) in the area of the specific conference so that the audience can benefit from those presenters with the most formal education and expertise in their respective specialty.