SAEM REPORTS ACADEMIES Simulation Academy Announces Award Winners; Launches Consulting Service The SAEM Simulation Academy is pleased to announce that Dr. Julie Gesch is the 2021 SAEM Simulation Research Grant recipient for her work Julie Gesch using in-situ simulation to improve stroke care. The academy congratulates the following Simulation Academy members who received 2021 awards: • Dr. Alise Frallicciardi, Distinguished Educator Award • Dr. Charles Lei, Early Career Educator of the Year Award • Dr. Kevin Ching, SIM Innovation Award • Dr. Ambrose Wong, Change Agent Award • Dr. John Elue, Virtual Meeting Attendance Scholarship In conjunction with the CORD simulation community, the SAEM Simulation Academy is excited to offer a simulation consulting service to help troubleshoot simulation education and curricular challenges. To request a consult, visit the Advisor Consult Service webpage. For Simulation Academy updates, including future events, follow our Twitter account @SAEMSimAcademy.
COMMITTEES Virtual Presence Committee FOAMed Competition a Big Success Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAMed) is an asset uniquely created by and made for the EM community. Each year, at the SAEM annual meeting, the SAEM Virtual Presence Committee organizes a competition of new and upcoming FOAMed projects. Below is an overview of the four contestants that faced off in this year’s competition.
The Winner: Skin Deep by Don’t Forget the Bubbles (DFTB)
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Patients with darker skin tones have been grossly underrepresented in dermatologic online images. The Skin Deep team have developed “a free, open-access bank of high-quality photographs of medical conditions in a range of skin tones for use by both health care professionals and the public.” The team has a detailed submission process to ensure full consent has been obtained for all images. The Skin Deep team also includes an impressive number of dermatologists that review all the images to ensure they are appropriately indexed. This project has expanded and is now a multinational effort to increase the education of dermatologic presentations on all skin tones.
COVID, she decided to spend that time helping nurses up their game. The Up My Nursing Game podcast was born during the pandemic but has persisted and developed a strong following. Tackling topics from atrial fibrillation to homelessness, Annie delivers a consistently high-quality education. She involves physicians, respiratory therapists, speech therapists, and other nurses in the discussion to provide truly interdisciplinary education. Annie continues to publish her podcast monthly on all major podcasting platforms.
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Second Place: The Virtual Resus Room
When in-person education was halted by the pandemic, Dr. Sarah Foohey realized there was no effective way to run simulations online. To solve this problem, Sarah launched the Virtual Resus Room, using Google Slides and Zoom to create an engaging, collaborative online simulation experience. Learners simultaneously drag and drop monitors, medications, and equipment. Gifs, videos, and images are used to show exam findings and to allow learners to “work through” procedures. The VRR has been used by more than 20 programs in nine different countries. The VRR is entirely open access, with cases and instructions posted on the website.
Third Place: CriticalCareNow.com
Consistency in high-quality FOAMed can be difficult for busy physicians and medical staff. Haney Mallemat has solved this problem by assembling a team of critical care physicians, emergency medicine physicians, pharmacists, prehospital physicians, and respiratory therapists. CriticalCareNow.com delivers daily unique content in the form of written articles, videos, and infographics. With over 40 contributors and editors, CriticalCareNow.com has consistently published high-quality educational content daily since the site launched in July of 2020. The collective efforts of this team have resulted in the site receiving over 2000 views every day.
Fourth Place: UpMyNursingGame.com
When Annie Fulton was forced to cancel an Italian vacation because of
Evidence-Based Healthcare and Implementation Interest Group Announces Award in Honor of Rakesh Engineer The Evidence-Based Healthcare and Implementation Interest Group is announcing the Rakesh Engineer Award in honor of the late Dr. Rakesh Engineer (1970 - 2019), whose commitment to implementation science inspired many. This award recognizes a high-quality implementation study. Submissions to the SAEM Annual Meeting will be considered starting in 2022 if they are accepted by the program committee and the study focuses on implementation or de-implementation methods leading to evidence-based improvements in care. Researchers may apply at the time they submit their abstracts. Eligible entries will be scored in two stages, including the full presentation at the annual meeting, using modified RE-AIM criteria. For information contact Carly Eastin, MD, cdeastin@uams.edu.
