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SAEM NEWS

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 Task Force, shared his knowledge and firsthand perspective on the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic.

SOAR Featured Content

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.

• The Insidious Rash by Monica Mitta and Michael Sternberg, MD, University of South Alabama • What Lies Beneath by Jamie Fried,

NYU Grossman School of Medicine,

Jessica Tsao, MD, NYU Langone/

Bellevue Medical Center, and Lindsay

Davis, MD, NYU School of Medicine • Left Ear Mass by Gabriela Rivera-

Camacho, MD, and Adeline Dozois,

MD, Atrium Health – Carolinas Medical

Center, Charlotte, NC • Oral Trauma and Mass by Han Wei

Zheng, MD, MetroHealth Medical

Center, Department of Emergency

Medicine, Cleveland, OH

AWAEM and RAMS Announce Collaborative New Webinar Series: From Match to First Promotion

The webinar series, “From Match to First Promotion,” kicked off in January with Gender Biases and Clinical Leadership: Stories, Situation, Skills. The series, brought to you by SAEM, RAMS, and AWAEM, was created to support professional development during these difficult times that challenge our ability to create organic mentor-mentee relationships. In the first webinar, now on video, a diverse panel of speakers discussed workplace biases, imposter syndrome, and clinical leadership skills inside and outside of the resuscitation room ad addressed gender identity and professional development in the practice of emergency medicine.

SAEM JOURNALS

The Latest Podcasts From SAEM Journals

January AEM Podcasts • Identifying Maltreatment in Infants and Young Children Presenting With

Fractures: Does Age Matter? • Emergency Physician and Advanced

Practice Provider Diagnostic Testing and Admission Decisions in Chest Pain and Abdominal Pain January AEM E&T Podcasts • The Teacher, the Assessor, and the

Patient Protector: A Conceptual Model

Describing How Context Interfaces

With the Supervisory Roles of

Academic Emergency Physicians • Learner Perceptions of Electronic Endof-shift Evaluations on an Emergency

Medicine Clerkship February AEM Podcasts • Emergency Physicians and Personal

Narratives Improve the Perceived

Effectiveness of COVID-19 Public

Health Recommendations on Social

Media: A Randomized Experiment Journal podcasts are also available on iTunes.

SAEM Journals Editor-in-Chief Commentaries for January and February

For each issue of Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) and AEM Education and Training journal, editors-in-chief Dr. Jeffrey A. Kline and Dr. Susan B. Promes, respectively, select one paper as having particular importance and relevance to the readers of their respective journals. They share their thoughts and observations regarding their selected papers in regular editor-in-chief commentaries. Their most recent EIC pick commentaries are linked: • Protecting the Most Vulnerable by AEM

EIC, Jeffrey A. Kline, MD • Stop the Worry: Just Click the

Acetaminophen Box and Move On by

AEM EIC, Jeffrey A. Kline, MD • Women’s Burden Increases in

COVID-19 Era and Female Emergency

Medicine Physicians Are No Exception by AEM E&T EIC, Susan B Promes,

MD, MBA

The Latest Issues of SAEM Journals Are Ready for Your Review!

Full issue PDFs of the May and June issues of Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) are now available for download... or read the issues online! • Download a full PDF of January AEM or read online • Download a full PDF of January AEM

E&T or read online • Download full PDF of February AEM or read online

SAEM REGIONAL MEETINGS

New England Research Directors Registration is Open for the NERDS Regional Meeting

Registration is now open for the New England Research Directors (NERDS) regional meeting, to be held virtually on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Now in its 25th year, the NERDS meeting is the primary forum for presenting original emergency medicine research in the New England area. This year’s NERDS meeting is hosted by the University of Connecticut Emergency Medicine Residency and the University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate.

SAEM21 UPDATES

Check Out the New Issue of SAEM21 EMerging News for the Latest Annual Meeting Information

SAEM EMerging News is your central, easyto-find repository for all the latest news and information you need for SAEM21. Look for it to arrive in your email in-box monthly to start and with more frequency as the annual meeting approaches. Check out the latest issue here.

SAEM RAMS

The Newest RAMS Roadmaps Focus on Climate Change, Observation, Clinical Forensics

A career in emergency medicine focused on climate change will give you the tools to advocate for patients and take steps to address the root causes of the problems they face from this global public health crisis. The recently added RAMS Roadmaps Climate Change provides resources and insider advice to help you succeed in climate change emergency medicine at every training level.

If you’re interested in discovering the skills and knowledge needed to

appropriately identify and provide active patient care beyond initial emergency department care, the recently-added RAMS Roadmaps Observation provides resources and insider advice to help you succeed in observation emergency medicine at every training level. Finally, the recently-added RAMS Roadmaps Clinical Forensics provides resources and insider advice to help those interested in exploring clinical forensics (the niche field of emergency medicine that addresses the result of criminal activities and the legal ramifications of those actions, including firearm-related injuries, knife and bluntobject related injuries, motor vehicle collisions, sexual assault and abuse, child abuse, human trafficking, and domestic violence) succeed at every training level.

Three New RAMS Ask-a-Chair Podcasts

he gives advice to residents and young faculty on how to position themselves to rise into leadership as their career progresses. James Adams, MD, James Miner, MD, chief of emergency medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center and a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Minnesota, discusses how he developed an interest in pain and sedation and how the current opiate epidemic has affected his research. He talks about the biggest challenges facing emergency medicine and how to turn these challenges into successes. Finally, James Miner, MD chair of the department of emergency medicine and professor of emergency medicine at Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, talks about the administrative positions he’s held and how those positions prepared him for the role of chair and chief medical officer. He discusses what he looks for in a new faculty hire, his thoughts on quality metrics, and strategies for combatting burnout, among other things.

James Adams, MD

SAEM INTEREST GROUPS

Academic Informatics Interest Group Changes Name, Expands Scope

Emergency medicine is increasingly becoming an information science. Within the last decade, advances in health information technology and widespread adoption of the electronic health record have transformed our practice and led to an explosion of data generated during the routine course of patient care. Largely in parallel, the practice of data science, an interdisciplinary field using machine-learning and other algorithmic techniques to gain insight into data, has increasingly become a part of research. These growing sources of data and innovative algorithmic approaches are now transforming how we view and approach clinical decision-making, health services planning, and public health initiatives.

Recognizing this shift and the expanding role of data science in emergency health care and medicine at large, the SAEM Academic Informatics Interest Group announced a name change to the Informatics and Data Science Interest Group. In changing the name, it is the hope of the interest group to expand this community to those interested in these exciting new areas and to serve as a sounding board and intellectual hub to advance research and academic interests for medical students, residents, and faculty.

In addition to monthly online meetings, ACEP and SAEM national meetings, and regular discussion on the SAEM community site, in the coming months the interest group hopes to offer a variety of services for the community including: • An emergency medicine informatics and data science citation network to facilitate research ideas and collaboration • Resources for those interested in getting started in data science and machine learning (how-tos, books, etc.) • A “Studio” format to present research ideas and challenges within our monthly meetings • Facilitated discussion on best practices in a variety of techniques that may be unfamiliar to many members such as unsupervised clustering and deep learning • A “Shop-talk” series on how informatics and data science activities are integrated into healthcare institutions and promote sustainable learning health care environments • Publication of white papers and concept papers • Yearly Resident and Faculty Awards for best papers in emergency medicine informatics and data science • Webinars offering advice on choosing whether an informatics fellowship is right for you

To those who have contemplated getting into this field but have reservations or fears, please note that many of us started the same way with little background or knowledge. Fortunately, the informatics and data science communities are incredibly supportive and growing all the time. I often like to tell people who ask about getting into coding that “your first line of code for a project is just a Google click away.”

Please consider joining us as we strive to transform emergency care and research!

Benjamin Sun, MD, MPP, Penn Medicine department of emergency medicine, talks about the role of EM physicians in the public policy realm and Benjamin Sun, MD, MPP how medical students and residents that have a special interest in this area can get more involved. He discusses how he developed a research interest in patient safety and quality and gives advice to medical students, residents, and even junior faculty looking to build a research career.

SAEM ACADEMIES

Simulation Academy Check Out What We’ve Been Up To!

4. Can You See and Hear Me? Building a Training Program to Develop

Association of American Medical

Colleges Telemedicine Competencies (Simulation Academy and Telehealth

Interest Group Sponsored) For more updates, including upcoming events, follow our Simulation Academy Twitter account @SAEMSimAcademy. • Dr. Julie Gesch from Alameda Health was awarded the 2021 SAEM Simulation Research Grant for her work using in situ simulation to

Dr. Julie Gesch improve stroke care. Congratulations Dr. Gesch! • 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. • The Emergency Medicine Resident

Simulation Curriculum for Pediatrics (EM ReSCu Peds) is here and available for download. This free, open-access e-book contains sixteen cases to address critical pediatric topics for EM residents through simulation. • Four SAEM Simulation Academysponsored didactics have been accepted for the SAEM21 Virtual

Annual Meeting and are included with your SAEM21 registration: 1. Simulation for the Real World: How to Apply In Situ Simulation in Your

Emergency Department (Simulation

Academy Sponsored) 2. Interprofessional In Situ COVID-19

Preparedness Simulations: Program

Implementation and Lessons Learned (Simulation Academy Sponsored) 3. Using Simulation for Transgender

Medical Education in Emergency

Medicine Residency (Simulation

Academy and AWAEM Sponsored)

IN OTHER NEWS

ABEM to Launch MyEMCert in Spring 2021

ABEM is introducing a new way to stay certified, designed with the uniqueness of Emergency Medicine in mind, and informed by the preferences of ABEMcertified physicians: MyEMCert. Core elements of MyEMCert include: • Topic-specific modules that incorporate the “bread and butter” issues of emergency medicine • Open-book modules that can be completed anywhere, anytime • Immediate feedback providing scores, correct answers, and rationales • Content that keeps you informed about key advances in the specialty ABEM will move to a five-year certification period for physicians when they next recertify. By moving to a five-year certification period, physicians will be able to use MyEMCert to recertify starting in spring 2021. For more information, visit the webpage. If you have any questions, please contact ABEM at staycertified@ abem.org or 517.332.4800.

SAEM FOUNDATION

Attention Academic EM Department Chairs!

It’s time for the annual SAEMF Chairs’ Challenge. Each year, our AACEM Annual Retreat in March kicks off this important Challenge that raises vital funds to help strengthen the pipeline of EM researchers who will advance this specialty in the future. Browse our new SAEMF Donor Guide to learn about the Foundation’s impact, our researchers and the work they are doing, and how you can join your colleagues in supporting a bold vision for EM research. Donate today to join the Annual Alliance. In 2020, we raised $66,852 from 58 donors – this year we are setting our sights on 100% participation from our chairs. Please consider joining your fellow Chairs who have made the decision to show leadership in giving by becoming an Advocate Donor of the Annual Alliance. Why wait to donate until March? Your donation now counts towards the 2021 Challenge. Email Julie Wolfe at jwolfe@saem.org for more information about the SAEM Foundation Chairs Challenge.

In 2020 the states on the left, highlighted in green, had 100% of their chairs participate in our Chairs' Challenge. In 2021 our goal, with your help, is to turn the entire map green!