Satellite Meetings and Events at SAEM 2013
The Annual Meeting of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) brings together academic emergency medicine physicians from many regions to a single location. Thus, these meetings provide an opportunity for organizations other than SAEM to access the academic emergency medicine community. To take advantage of this opportunity, organizations may hold meetings, symposia, or other "satellite" events at or near the location of SAEM meetings, in the days before, during, or after the SAEM Annual Meeting itself. Such satellite meetings are not SAEM activities and therefore are not sponsored or co-sponsored by SAEM; however, these events must be pre-approved by SAEM.
To be sanctioned by the SAEM Board of Directors, a satellite meeting must directly further the mission of SAEM. The mission of SAEM is to improve patient care by advancing research and education in emergency medicine. While topics that are purely clinical will be considered, those that focus on research advances, or education of residents and medical students, and whose speakers are acknowledged experts in the field will be given highest priority. The total number of satellite sessions allowed at any meeting will depend on space and time available.