Unveiled and Pragmatic: Exposing the Hidden Curriculum in Early- to Mid-Career Faculty Development and Advancement (Faculty Development Committee Sponsored)

Unveiled and Pragmatic: Exposing the Hidden Curriculum in Early to Mid-Career Faculty Development and Advancement is an interactive didactic session that will intentionally unveil and provide pragmatic solutions to address facets of the proverbial “hidden curriculum” (i.e., essential yet nuanced items) related to navigating, developing, and advancing a career in academic emergency medicine. The session will raise awareness of hidden curriculum facets and equip attendees to apply their new knowledge as they move through their own trajectory of faculty development and career advancement. Aligned with SAEM’s mission statement, this session will promote professional discovery and education of academic emergency medicine clinicians, educators, and researchers.

An expert panel will individually provide succinct retrospective summaries of their own professional background and career trajectory highlighting no more than 3 select hidden curriculum facets that led to missed opportunities or success as they moved from early to mid-career. Some examples might include: 1) proactively creating and knowing how to articulate your career; 2) not saying “no” for the sake of reducing your workload but for the conscious and strategic purpose of focusing your faculty development and career advancement intentions; 3) embracing and seeking out doing hard things that yield alignment with academic passion and your desired career future; 4) recognizing that faculty sponsors as well as mentors are vital to faculty development and career advancement. These presentations will be followed by a closely moderated 25-minutes highly interactive Q&A session with attendees. Throughout the interactive Q&A session, the moderator will intentionally probe a more definitive focus on providing pragmatic solutions on how to use identified hidden curriculum facets for success.

Presenters:

  • Federico Vaca, MD, MPH
  • Edouard Coupet, Jr., MD, MS
  • Shannon Toohey, MD, MAEd
  • Lauren Walter, MD, MSPH
  • Bret A. Nicks, MD, MHA
Authors

  • Federico Vaca, MD, MPH

    University of California, Irvine

    Dr. Vaca is Professor and Executive Vice Chair at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine. He began his career at UCI in 1996; in 2009, he moved on to the Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine, where he was Professor, Vice Chair for Faculty Affairs, and instrumental in creating the department’s academic appointments and promotion process. In 2022, Dr. Vaca returned to UC Irvine. His career as an academic emergency medicine physician led him along the trajectory of navigating fellowship training programs, development of post-doctoral fellowships, establishment of department-based mentoring programs, establishment of injury science research centers, a visiting scholar appointment at the NIH, and NIH funding since 2007. Having navigated the academic waters in a multitude of domains over several decades, his wide breath of knowledge and experience directly related to the hidden curriculum in faculty development and advancing through the of world academia is highly aligned with the proposed SAEM didactic session. Further, as the didactic session moderator, his experience and insights will intentionally serve to identify and probe unique and more nuanced facet of the hidden curriculum to educate session attendees.

  • Edouard Coupet, Jr., MD, MS

    Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

    Yale University

    Dr. Coupet is Assistant Professor in Emergency Medicine and Core Faculty in the Program for Addiction Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine. He is a physician-scientist, board-certified physician in both emergency and addiction medicine. His primary research interests include ED patient identification and management of substance misuse and substance use disorders, health equity within addiction treatment access, and epidemiology and prevention of assault injury. He has received funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and Emergency Medicine Foundation to study health equity within access to evidence-based addiction medicine treatment. He joined faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale in 2018 as a Drug Use, Addiction, and HIV Research (DAHRS) K-12 Scholar. He is also a NIDA HEAL Initiative Diversity Supplement awardee.

  • Shannon Toohey, MD, MAEd

    University of California, Irvine

    Shannon Toohey is the Residency Program Director for the University of California, Irvine Department of Emergency Medicine. In 2016, she completed the Multimedia Design and Educational Technology (MDEdTech) Fellowship at the University of California Irvine. She completed medical school at UC Irvine School of Medicine, after which she completed her residency at the UC Irvine Medical Center. She received a Masters in Education, Multimedia and Instructional Design at Cal Poly Pomona. During her time at UC Irvine she has developed and expanded many educational programs for the residents including a flipped medical student and intern podcast curriculum, oral board review course and helped to revamp the curriculum. Her interests include asynchronous learning, flipped curricula, resident and patient education.

  • Lauren Walter, MD, MSPH

    University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Lauren Walter is an Associate Professor and Associate Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Dr. Walter has experience and expertise in both medical education and clinical research. She is currently the Social Emergency Medicine & Population Health Fellowship Director at UAB and conducts externally-funded research with a focus on public health, including universal HIV and HCV screening, as well as a ED-initiated MOUD program.

  • Bret A. Nicks, MD, MHA

    Wake Forest University School of Medicine

    Dr. Nicks is a Professor and Executive Vice Chair of Emergency Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. During his career at Wake Forest, he has served as the Emergency Department Medical Director, founding Director of the Emergency Department Observation Unit, served as the regional medical director during the emergency medicine physician group expansion, and served as a site PI for a multi-center R01 research study. Within the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Dr. Nicks served as the founding Associate Dean for the Office of Global Health, building collaboration and growth across local departments locally and Wake Forest affiliations globally. Dr. Nicks is the founding director of the Wake Forest Master of Healthcare Leadership, an executive degree program dedicated to creating transformational leaders in healthcare. He is a past president of the North Carolina College of Emergency Medicine. For nearly a decade, Dr. Nicks served as the Chief Medical Officer of the award-winning Wake Forest Baptist Davie Medical Center, a community-based medical center dedicated to creating the optimal organizational culture while embracing academics in the community.

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