EMRA Critical Care Division Meeting Minutes
SAEM 5/14/15
Chair:
Vice Chair:
Board Liaison:
Krystle Shafer, MD
Jenelle Holst, MD and Danish Malik, MD
Leonard Stallings, MD
A. Welcome and introductions
B. EMRA Business Updates
a. Meeting structure for ACEP15
i. EMRA will reserve room(s) over the course of several days, and
committee & division leaders will be able to sign up for a time slot that
best fits their needs. We will be planning to schedule our meeting in
conjunction with the ACEP critical care medicine section
b. Committee & Division Logos:
i. EMRA will work with each committee & division to design a logo/web
banner that will be used to promote the group on the EMRA website, in
the newsletter, to other organizations via web banner swaps, etc.
1. EKG tracing, similar to ACEP to align with sister organization
c. EM Resident articles: Committed to (2) per year at minimum
d. Authors:
1. Article 1 – (due by August 1)
2. Article 2 – (due by January 1)
a. Our group has consistently written in this magazine and our
goal is to have at minimum one article per edition. We have
created a topic list and anyone interested is welcome to sign
up to write articles on these topics to submit to the
magazine. You must have a faculty mentor to help with
your article and we can help find you one if needed
e. EMRA Match
i. Our group has updated lists on all four critical care pathways (all programs
currently accepting EM applicants); these should be uploaded on EMRA’s
website soon
ii. Each EMRA committee/division will update this information, fellowship
information with map of fellowship locations with pin
iii. Information we need for critical care fellowships:
1. Which track: neuro, medicine, surgery, neuro (color coded on
map?)
2. ACGME certified, board eligibility (especially with surgery)
3. Accept ERAS or not
iv. Application cycle coming up in July 2015 to start July 2016
v. Need addresses for each fellowship to be added to EMRA Match
f. EMRA EMIG Campaign
i. EMRA is launching a new campaign to EMIGs in the 2015-2016
academic year. Each EMIG president will receive a kit including:
1. Sample EMRA Member Kit
2. “Why EM/Why EMRA” Brochures (includes a detailed timeline of
important dates/checklist for MSI – MSIV)
3. Flash drives containing videos on Emergency Medicine & EMRA
involvement, plus a PPT presentation
4. Our group is taking the lead currently to create a powerpoint
presentation to discuss fellowship opportunities available to the
EM physician
a. This is a collaborative project working with medical
students and other EMRA divisions/committees
b. Current fellowships to be discussed: critical care, sports
medicine, simulation, toxicology, pediatric EM, wilderness
medicine, EMS, ultrasound
c. Goal would be to try and disseminate to EMIGS and also
potentially to EMRA program representatives
C. Review of Recent Activities
a. Pressordex
i. 2nd edition released at ACEP 2015
ii. Current goal is revisions to be made every 3 years
1. Residents/students can be involved with new updates every 3 years
b. EMF Resident Critical Care Research Grant
i. $5,000 resident award provided each year to 2 EM residents
ii. Grants should be announced in June 2015
c. Awaiting Publication of Survey about resident interest in critical care
i. 600 residents responded, 49% interested in critical care
ii. such a high amount of interest reinforces importance and impact of critical
care!
d. Fellowship Mentorship program
i. Currently run by EM-CCM virtual mentor website
e. Education Committee’s Lecture competition “20 in 6”
i. Set to unveil at ACEP 15
ii. In 6 minutes you get 20 slides to present a topic, would love to have
someone from critical care to represent us
f. Critical Care Track
i. Article in EM Res; currently listed on our website
ii. Consider starting a track in your residency!, questions contact
jenelle.holst@gmail.com
D. Projects with ongoing work
a. Liaisons
i. Social media Liaison
1. Ongoing: facebook critical care alerts
a. Currently organized by residents @ NYU, recruiting for
next year’s class
b. Set up a way to send it directly to EMresident.org to
directly post them
2. Twitter: use #EMRACritCare
3. Still recruiting social media liaison->email if interested
a. Division members signed up for this, contact us if
interested
ii. Research Liaison Project: Collection of top CC articles
1. Near completion, should be uploaded soon
a. Searchable by organ system, disease, year (latest), on
EMRA website
b. Member Proposals for format, etc:
i. Ranking system of articles? For feedback of
relevance of articles
ii. Point v counter point system to explore pros and
cons of articles by experts in the field on major
landmark articles
iii. Long list of articles vs select subset (3-5 articles per
topic)
iv. Research committee came up with landmark articles
list, opportunity for collaboration
v. Want to keep it web based to be updatable, want to
keep curating it to keep standard number of articles,
EMresident.org
vi. Would like it listed through journal article manager
program for ease of download through university
proxy
vii. Opportunity for youtube, podcast, critical alert to
use for dissemination of information or posting a
new article
iii. Database Liaison
1. Currently updated database but need help to maintain this list ->email us if interested
a. Need a division member to sign up for this
b. Will keep EMRA match website updated
b. Fellowship electronic guidebook
i. Submitted to the EMRA board, awaiting approval
ii. Collaborative project with CORD
1. Comprehensive guide, electronic to be updated every year
2. Can email out information about internal medicine (pilot chapter)
now to crit care division members
3. Standard price for entire fellowship guide book $5?
4. Help to create by each corresponding EMRA division, however
there are more fellowships than divisions
5. Updated information about each fellowship on EMRA match
c. EM-Fellow list-serv
i. Goal is to link incoming, current and outgoing EM trained CCM fellows
1. Google group launch this week
d. Medical Student Boot Camp
i. Collaborative project with multiple different committee/divisions
1. Medical student day, all EMRA divisions on board. Multiple
different stations sponsored by each EMRA division, ex:
simulations lectures, vendors/US
2. Critical care rotation/booth: simulation, procedures
3. Goal to be done at ACEP 2016
E. Future Projects
a. Fellowship elective database
i. For EM residencies that do not have ICU electives at their home
institutions, need to arrange an away rotation
ii. Maybe more of a set of guidelines of “how to” arrange an away elective
b. Monthly Critical Care Alert
c. Panel ideas for ACEP: recently matched fellows; hot topic panel; critical care
experts discussing management of different critically ill patients
i. Panel ideas:
1. How to navigate career selection after fellowship, private vs
academic, 50/50% EM/CCM split, just in the ED or just in the ICU
2. How you should decide on a fellowship (for medical students)
d. Webinars?
i. Would like to do another one this year, information for the fellowship
applicant (information about different anesthesia, surgical, neuro medical
tracks, LOR, application content and preparation, timeline)
F. Questions/suggestions from members?
G. Closing/Thank You