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| New Programs & Leaders | Resident |
| Best Practices | EMARC |
| Navigating the Academic Waters | Research |
| CDEM | Specialty |
| iMedEd |
New Programs & Leaders
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
The Basics of Starting a New Residency Program
Faculty: Moshe Weizberg; Fiona Gallahue
A discussion to provide "all the basic tools one will need, to help develop faculty skills and ensure the creation of a stellar EM residency program. The speakers have both started new residency programs and are now established residency directors. They will share their experiences to share some tools to assist other new PDs as they build a new program. Speakers will also provide a handout on faculty development techniques.
New Programs & Leaders
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM / 0.5 CME Hour(s)
Teaching Culturally Responsive Care
Faculty: Glenn Paetow, Aarti Jain, Nate Scott, Rochelle Zarzar
This didactic session presents five unique methods for teaching culturally responsive care along with the learner outcome objectives in the cognitive and affective domains. Speakers will present real-world experiences along with the pearls and pitfalls of adapting these techniques to residency education.Presentation will be combined effort on lecture - alternating speakers
New Programs & Leaders
9:10 AM - 9:40 AM
Expanding Your Reach - Virtual Mentorship
Faculty: Maria Moreira; Saadia Akhtar
Mentorship is important for growth and career advancement. There are times when perhaps the best mentorship for you may be at a distance. This session will provide those seeking to be virtual mentors information on how to do so and also information on the pitfalls and advantages of this type of mentorship. For those seeking mentors, this will provide them with another potential avenue for mentorship.
New Programs & Leaders
9:45 AM – 10:15 AM / 0.5 CME Hour(s)
Our Collective Experience: Pearls and Pitfalls of Foundations Implementation
Faculty: Kristen Grabow Moore, Natasha Wheaton, Jeremy Berberian
"Foundations of Emergency Medicine" is a web-based learning resource for emergency medicine, offering a series of courses that are openly shared with EM residency programs around the USA. More than 120 residency programs have incorporated the Foundations curriculum in their training programs, and the body of knowledge and experience from Foundations site leaders has grown exponentially. In this session, diverse program leaders will share their perspectives and advice for making use of Foundations course resources and successful implementation at any program.
New Programs & Leaders
10:20 AM - 11:00 AM
How to Facilitate a Small Group Session
Faculty: Nicholas Hartman, Jaime Jordan, Lisa Moreno-Walton; Michael Gottlieb
Small group discussions form an essential component of instruction for EM learners. Many faculty are often thrust into the role of leading small groups without much formal training in how to do this best. This session will relay best practices; to help teach in ways that promote active engagement in learners - to address common issues (e.g. leaders who give answers, or who guide in a way that is too heavy handed or learners who have difficulty sticking to the ground rules, who interrupt, who dominate discussion, etc) This session will provide leadership guidance and examples, and ways to deal with common issues.
New Programs & Leaders
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM / 1 CME Hour(s)
560: Beyond Nuts and Bolts
Faculty: David Duong, Jordan Spector, Elizabeth Gignac, Peter Moffett, William Peterson, Joseph House, Gene Hern, David Duong, Angela Chen, Loice Swisher
These 560 sessions will offer solutions to a number of challenges a program director or an APD may encounter when starting or maintaining an EM training program. Speakers will offer ideas to help you recruit talented learners, to provide learners effective feedback, and to promote wellness. Check out these creative ideas to address common issues not addressed elsewhere - beyond the nuts and bolts!
Best Practices
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM / 0.5 CME Hour(s)
CCC Squared: Creating a Constructive and Comprehensive CCC
Faculty: Michael Ehmann, Linda Regan, Leah Bright, Logan Weygandt, Christina Tarleton
A description of the iterative process to improve the efficiency of our program's biannual CCC reviews. We will share how we streamlined our process to comprehensively review our 48 residents' clinical competency in one 8-hour meeting every 6 months.
Best Practices
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Education Journal Club
Faculty: Esther Chen, David Duong, David Gordon
Combined BP & CDEM
Do you find it challenging to keep up with the latest and greatest in medical education? This session will review the most pertinent medical education articles of 2018.
Best Practices
9:10 AM - 10:15 AM
Torpedos in the Water: Getting Sunk By a SLOE-pedo
Faculty: Adam Kellog, Tom Morrissey, Jamie Shandro, Emily Hillman)
Combined BP & CDEM
An interactive session including examples from actual, de-identified SLOEs, where we discuss writing fair SLOEs for the less competitive. We will also discuss advising students recognized to have a “SLOEpedo” in their application.
Best Practices
10:20 AM – 11:00 AM / 0.75 CME Hour(s)
Winning the P&T Game: How to Optimize Your Time Management for Academic Productivity
Faculty: Holly Caretta-Weyer, David Jones
Scholarship is required for promotion; however, medical educators have an enormous amount of demands on their time that prevent scholarship from occurring. In this session, we will develop a time management system that takes into account both current time demands and education scholarship goals.
Best Practices
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Curricular Innovations 560
Faculty: Rebecca Bavolek, Leah Bright, MIchael Barrie, Timothy Koboldt, Christina Shenvi, Amita Sudhir, Charlotte Lawson, W. Gannon Sungar
This session will be a rapid fire of innovations to give some unique ideas on how to teach difficult topics and how to solve some of those didactic issues that many programs commonly face.
Navigating the Academic Waters
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Imposter Syndrome: Getting Out of Your Own Way
Faculty: Fareen Zaver; Natasha Wheaton PANEL: Jaime Hope, Arlene Chung, Rebecca Bavolek
Imposter phenomenon (IP) is a common entity and is a significant impediment to the professional development of both residents and faculty. We will review the current literature and research on Imposter Syndrome. We will then discuss how to identify IP and present coaching methods with tangible solutions to assist individuals in overcoming this barrier to achieve their full professional potential.
Navigating the Academic Waters
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM / 0.5 CME Hour(s)
Going Public: Getting Your Message Out to the Masses
Faculty: Jeremy Faust
This lecture will be describe how to pitch, write, and promote articles about emergency medicine and related topics (including Op-Eds) for mainstream media outlets. Specific focus will be on the tried-and-true structures that writers can rely on, and editors love.
Navigating the Academic Waters
9:10 AM - 9:40 AM
Affiliate Sites: Careers in Education Outside the House of Medicine
Faculty: Caitlin Bailey
Many new and recent residency graduates are interested in medical education, but unsure if they wish to pursue a position in a university setting. This talk will describe career tracks involving medical education outside the traditional house of medicine. Examples will include county sites, community rotation site directorships, elective rotation leadership, and more.
Navigating the Academic Waters
9:45 AM – 10:15 AM / 0.5 CME Hour(s)
When Program Leadership and Parenting Collide
Faculty: SueLin Hilbert
How being an APD prepared me for motherhood and how I learned to be more supportive of residents and faculty as new parents.
Navigating the Academic Waters
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM / 1 CME Hour(s)
560: Mastering Your EM Identity
Faculty: Edward Ullman, Christina Shenvi, Simran Buttar, Dimitrios Papanagnou, Anne Messman, Gannon Sungar, Jan Schoenberger, Edward Ullman, Rochelle Zarzar
Making the leap from resident or fellow to junior faculty is often the beginning of a journey without a map. This 560 session will give crucial tips to a successful launch of your academic career.
CDEM
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM / 0.5 CME Hour(s)
Giving Real-Time Feedback to Students: Coaching Your Students to Their Personal Best
Faculty: Jay Ladde, Josef Thundiyil
National surveys suggest that 8% of learners are satisfied with feedback.Feedback that is specific, timely, and supportive helps reinforce desired actions. By creating this dialogue, educators will be able to provide real-time feedback while maintaining close working relationships with students.
CDEM
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Education Journal Club
Faculty: Esther Chen, David Duong, David Gordon
Combined BP & CDEM
CDEM
9:10 AM – 10:15 AM / 1 CME Hour(s)
Torpedoes in the Water: Getting Sunk by a SLOEpedo
Faculty: Adam Kellogg, Emily Hillman, Jamie Shandro, Tom Morrissey
An interactive session including examples from actual, de-identified SLOEs, where we discuss writing fair SLOEs for the less competitive. We will also discuss advising students recognized to have a “SLOEpedo” in their application.
CDEM
10:20 AM - 11:00 AM
The Data and The Deeds To Be Done
Faculty: Lucienne Lufty-Clayton, Doug Franzen; Zach Jarou; Mike Kiemeney PANEL: Kendra Parekh, Trevor Pour
This didactic will focus on understanding the steps made this past year by the Application Process Improvement Committee. We will then transition to a small group activity to actively brainstorm other ideas to help positively impact the application process.
CDEM
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM / 1 CME Hour(s)
560: Advising Special Populations
Faculty: Alexis Pelletier-Bui, Caitlin Schrepel, Kyle Couperus, Jose Nable, George Willis, Liza Smith, Doug Franzen
This 560 session will present evidence based recommendations and expert opinion for advising special applicant populations including military applicants, couples matching, URMs, orphan programs, and dual accreditation. This session is presented on behalf of CORD's ASC EM (Advising Students Committee Emergency Medicine).
iMedEd
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Maintaining Engagement on Social Media Platforms
Faculty: Derek Monette; Nikita Joshi; Matt Klein
Emergency medicine has led the charge for incorporating social media into our education and practice. But amid a sea of competing personal and professional demands, is it really worth the effort to keep logging on? In this session, we highlight some of the ways by which social media may enhance your career and share practical strategies for maintaining engagement, or for becoming reengaged. After this session, participants should be able to:Recognize motivations for maintaining engagement with social media, including brand management and knowledge translation.Identify strategies for cutting through “the noise” on social media, finding online communities, and maintaining engagement.Identify a practical, balanced approach to incorporating social media into your daily or weekly routine while preventing “click fatigue.”
iMedEd
8:30 AM – 9:10 AM / 0.75 CME Hour(s)
Needle in a Haystack: How to Find and Evaluate Quality FOAM
Faculty: Fareen Zaver, Andy Grock, Teresa Chan, Mike Gottlieb
There are a multitude of blogs and podcasts available that provide Emergency Medicine educational content, but how do you know which ones are educationally sound? In this workshop, you will learn how to define quality within blogs and podcasts. You will then apply the skills to help find, curate, and evaluate educational content that is available online. Ultimately, these skills gained from this workshop can be used in your program to ensure that your learners are using effective educational content to learn.
iMedEd
9:20 AM - 9:40 AM
Taking Control of Your Social Medial Profile
Faculty: Rob Cooney
This session will familiarize attendees with the common social media platforms and introduce strategies that will help them to control the profile of their programs and themselves as individuals.
iMedEd
9:45 AM – 10:15 AM / 0.5 CME Hour(s)
Developing and Refining Your Online Presence: A Hands-On Workshop
Faculty: Robert Cooney, Michael Gottlieb, Fareen Zaver, Teresa Chan, Nikita Joshi
This session is designed for participants to begin to develop an online identity. We will explore the use of common social platforms and how these can be used to create a personal “brand.” Participants will become familiar with tools that assist with content creation and distribution.
iMedEd
10:20 AM - 11:00 AM
How To Build Your Residency Brand
Faculty: Mike Gisondi, Jeremy Branzetti
In this session, attendees will learn the key principles of branding for educational programs. Brand image and brand experience will be discussed at the training program and department levels. The presentation will focus on the successful recruitment of residency and fellowship candidates.
iMedEd
11:05 AM – 12:00 PM / 1 CME Hour(s)
How to Utilize Social Media for Promotion and Tenure
Faculty: Mike Gisondi, Jennifer Beck Esmay, Felix Ankel
The promotions and tenure (P&T) process is important for all academics as they progress through their career. To succeed, one must showcase their scholarship in ways that are understandable to the P&T committee. Understanding the process of how to navigate the P&T process with scholarship that is increasingly digital (ie, blogs, podcasts) is critical. While every institution has their own system, best practices are emerging for this process.
Resident
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM
Let's Be Real, You Need a Job Now
Faculty: Edward Lew, Tara Kenny
This session is intended to provide exposure to the different models and types of hospital jobs in the academic, community, and county settings. This session will help participants understand how different practice models affect financial planning and how your clinical practice changes with different hospital types.
Resident
9:00 AM – 9:40 AM / 0 CME Hour(s)
How to Succeed Your First Year Out
Faculty: Christine Shenvi, Nikki Binz
In this session, attendees will learn about ways to avoid career ending pitfalls as fresh new attendings. This session will shed light on situations that could make life difficult at your first job out – including burning bridges with ancillary staff, unwise financial decisions, and being locked into a restrictive contract. We'll also talk about the positive things: how to set yourself up for success in your practice, your personal well-being, and your chosen career path!
Resident
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Social Media Snafus: Could you be Next?
Faculty: Sara Paradise; Christian Ruiz
Whether a personal Instagram post, Twitter battle, or Facebook video outburst, we’ve all seen physicians in the national limelight for some not-so-positive reasons. In this session, we will highlight a few of these case examples and review why a social media post may not be so innocuous afterall.
Resident
10:20 AM – 11:00 AM / 0 CME Hour(s)
How to Get Where You’re Going and Lead While Doing It!
Faculty: Alicia Kurtz, Dhimitri Nikolla, Derek Monette
Do you ever wonder what it would be like to impact emergency medicine on a national level as a resident? In this session, attendees will hear from former resident superstars on how they got involved and thrived in emergency medicine on a national level, followed by Q&A.
EMARC
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
CCC Squared: Creating a Constructive and Comprehensive CCC
Faculty: Michael Ehmann PANEL: Linda Regan, Leah Bright, Logan Wegandt, Christina Tarleton,)
Combined BP & EMARC
EMARC
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM / 0 CME Hour(s)
EMARC Business Meeting
Faculty: Melanie Pigott, Jana Ricker
Open to all EMARC members (how to get involved, what is EMARC up to, what do you want from EMARC)
EMARC
9:10 AM - 9:40 AM
EMARC Track Planning
EMARC Track planning for CORD Academic Assembly 2020!
EMARC
9:45 AM – 10:15 AM / 0 CME Hour(s)
Coordinator Wellness
Faculty: Sophia Isoff
A brief overview of strategies that promote wellness during working hours and at home.
EMARC
10:20 AM - 11:15 AM
Program Director Loss: How A Program Rallied Together After The Unexpected Loss of Their Beloved Program Director
Faculty: Ann Hill; Stacie Miller; Mary McNatt
The sudden loss of a Program Director can be devastating. This session will show how an Emergency Medicine residency program came together to support each other as a "family". We will also discuss how we continue to keep our PD's legacy alive and continue his work in Emergency Medicine.
EMARC
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM / 0 CME Hour(s)
PCPC- Program Coordinator Presenation Case
Faculty: Patrick O'Brien
A Residency Coordinator will put forth an administrative issue with a resident and explore the problem with the audience as a group, showing the collaboration of residency program leadership in handling a resident-related administrative issue.
Research
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM / 0 CME Hour(s)
Moderated Poster Session
Faculty: Boyd Burns, Jeffrey Siegelman
Moderated Poster Session
Specialty
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM / 0 CME Hour(s)
How to Get Involved with CORD
Faculty: Christopher Doty
Ever wonder how folks become a track chair, board member or other leader in CORD? Mostly it is just a matter of putting up your hand and being willing to do a little extra. However, for a few more details, come chat over breakfast with Chris Doty as he shares with you some thoughts on getting involved in CORD.