As the lead academic specialty society for emergency medicine, SAEM has the unique opportunity to educate academic health center leaders on the impact and importance of emergency medicine. In support of this role, the SAEM Board of Directors has approved the creation of the SAEM Education Fund to provide resources to help develop educational leaders in emergency medicine. Through the development of a specific education fund, SAEM is also further declaring its commitment to education and educational scholarship. In addition, for the 2010 Annual Meeting, SAEM has made a commitment to increase the number of education based didactic sessions, and the journal Academic Emergency Medicine will now include an education section editor and articles focused on educational topics.
The SAEM Education Fund will be used to support faculty who have shown promise / expertise in emergency medicine education. Some examples of fund use might include:
- Support to attend existing career development programs (e.g., the Harvard Macy Teaching Program)
- Development of a self sustaining educational course (e.g., a Bedside Teaching and Feedback course aimed at the large numbers of clinician educators)
- Development of educational tools for member access on line (e.g., a handbook for clinician educators or a faculty development handbook for the educator track)
- Advancement of well developed educational projects by providing seed money to further an Innovations in Emergency Medicine Education (IEME) project.
The SAEM research fund supports educational research project pilot grants, and SAEM would continue to encourage educators to submit applications for research projects such as outcomes based feedback techniques and the use of simulation in procedural competency.
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