EMRAF President’s Message By Dr. Elizabeth Calhoun Medical Student Council By Dan Schaefer

COMMITTEE REPORT

EMRAF President’s Message

By Elizabeth Calhoun, MD, PGY-2

Committee Chair

As we complete another academic year, I want to congratulate our Florida EM residency programs on their resident matches. Meet the 206 new emergency medicine residents in Florida here. Congratulations to all!

Now, maybe more than ever, incoming and outgoing residents are carrying concerns about Florida’s emergency medicine job market, affected by both the pandemic and the recent increase in residency programs within the state, even sparking dialogue on the FCEP DocMatter Discussion board. To my fellow residents, know that ACEP and FCEP are aware of these concerns and working to address residents’ needs. FCEP is also constantly active in the legislature, represented by our lobbying team in Tallahassee through FCEP and on a national level, to protect provider compensation and quality of emergency care for our patients.

EMRAF has a new Facebook group for its members. Please click here to join and help us make this an active forum for Florida’s many EM residents. Don’t forget to mark your calendars for FCEP’s annual meeting and conference, Symposium by the Sea, on August 5-8, 2021 in Naples, FL and stay tuned for announcements about the Life After Residency event for PGY-3s in the fall. These are a few of the many ways your resident involvement remains a vital component of our statewide EM community. ■

COMMITTEE REPORT

Medical Student Council

By Dan Schaefer, MPH, MS-3

Secretary-Editor, FSU College of Medicine

Hello from the FCEP Medical Student Council (MSC)! We have been collaborating with the many Emergency Medicine Interest Groups (EMIGs) in our wonderful state on how they are addressing their students’ emergency medicine needs and activities during the pandemic. The EMIGs have had skills workshops in COVID-friendly outlets, Zoom series with EM subspecialties, and residency panels for the up and coming emergency physicians! Our quarterly meetings during the pandemic have been very helpful for the EMIGs to bounce ideas off of each other on how to best address social distancing precautions while simultaneously ensuring the safety of medical students. They have really gone above and beyond in helping their students. The FCEP MSC will soon be transitioning to a new group of officers, so we would like to remind everyone to keep an eye out for applications for those positions in the upcoming weeks. Although EM Days was virtual this year, we hope to be able to see all of you at Symposium by the Sea on August 5-8, 2021! ■