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Task Force, shared his knowledge and firsthand perspective on the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Did You Miss Seeing the Fauci Webinar? Catch it Now on Video!
In case you missed it, the SAEM National Grand Rounds: COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution and What It Means for the Emergency Department is now on video! Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and one of the lead members of the White House Coronavirus
Check out the variety of presentations from SAEM20, SAEM19, and SAEM18. View dozens of recorded presentations online and save or share your favorites. It’s all part of SOAR: SAEM Online Academic Resources, featuring three years of annual meeting content, more accessibility than ever before, an enhanced, easy-to-navigate layout that allows you to view online education resources or from the SAEM YouTube Channel. Check out this issue’s featured categories! • diversity • global health • geriatrics • informatics/social media • infectious diseases • palliative medicine
SAEM20 Clinical Image Series
The SAEM Clinical Image Series is a collaborative series with ALiEM (Academic Life in Emergency Medicine) and features the winners of the SAEM Annual Meeting Clinical Images Exhibit competition. Check out the images, read the case notes, and see if you can figure out the diagnosis before you reveal the answer. Images from the SAEM20 virtual meeting are posted below; all images will be highlighted throughout the coming year in SAEM Weekly and at the ALiEM website. • Edema Got Your Tongue? by Rykiel Levine, NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center and Richard Iuorio, MD, Lincoln Medical Center/Weill Cornell Medical College • Sun-burnt Hands and Lips by medical student Justin Rich and Michael Sternberg, MD, University of South Alabama
ARMED MedEd: Developing a Cadre of Health Professions Education Researchers in Emergency Medicine The inaugural session of the Advanced Research Methodology Evaluation and Design in Medical Education (ARMED MedEd) course took place on February 8-9, 2021 via Zoom. This longitudinal course is aimed at health professions education researchers who already have some experience but want to develop their skills in grant writing and in conducting collaborative research with high level outcomes. By the end of the course, each of the participants should have prepared a competitive grant application, and many will have begun their research studies. The course featured faculty both from within the specialty of emergency nedicine as well as internationally recognized health professions education research leaders. SAEM is sponsored the course to support EM education researcher development, advance the science of emergency medicine education, and ultimately benefit learners, educators, and patient care. An innovative, collaborative mentorship program paired each participant with a personal mentor and groups three of these dyads together into a “mentor family.” This structure created a team that can conduct studies at multiple institutions and allows course participants to serve as the PI on their own project and as a coinvestigator on two other projects while gaining skills as a peer mentor. A novel approach to considering equity in education and research debuted as an organized thread throughout the ARMED MedEd experience. Teresa Y. Smith, MD, MEd and her team created a series of educational experiences to enable researchers to minimize the impact of bias in education studies and to make their interventions accessible to learners from all backgrounds. As part of this thread, the team provided a consultation service to researchers as they prepare their research plans. Many of the SAEM academies and RAMS provided scholarships for their members to attend this course and advance research that is related to their missions. The SAEM Foundation created a $25,000 grant earmarked for an ARMED MedEd investigator. The course runs for 15 months and we look forward to hearing about all of the research projects at the graduation at SAEM22, currently scheduled to take place in May 2022 in New Orleans, LA.
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