What Are You Doing After Graduation? Insights From the 2023 American Board of Emergency Medicine In-Training Examination on Career Plans of Emergency Medicine Residents (Workforce Committee-Sponsored)
The SAEM Workforce Committee, in collaboration with the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM), conducted a survey of over 9,500 emergency medicine residents across the United States to explore their career plans and the factors influencing those plans. This study, conducted in conjunction with the 2023 ABEM in-training examination, gathered insights on topics such as fellowship intentions, career setting preferences, and factors like lifestyle, salary, debt, geography, burnout, and expected years in clinical practice. Key findings highlight significant shifts in the career trajectories of residents, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. This session will begin with a presentation of these key findings, followed by a panel discussion with study investigators and experts in the field. The panel will explore lessons learned and implications for the future emergency medicine workforce, with a focus on how evolving trends may impact residency and clinical practice long-term.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the career plans of US EM residents and the factors influencing these plans
- Discuss how the pandemic, EM workforce projections, and recent match results shaped residents' career choices
- Discuss lessons learned on the future of the EM workforce through the lens of a current cohort of EM residents
Presenters:
- Dave W. Lu, MD, MS
- Christopher Bennett, MD, MSc, MA
- Bryan G. Kane, MD, FACEP
- Michelle D. Lall, MD, MHS
- D. Mark Courtney, MD, MSci
- Yvette Calderon, MD
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Dave W. Lu, MD, MS, MBE
University of Washington
Dave Lu MD, MSCI, MBE is Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA), Director of Faculty Wellness and Professional Fulfillment, and Associate Medical Director of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the UW Medical Center – Northwest Emergency Department. Dr. Lu studies issues related to the healthcare workforce, including clinician burnout, well-being, attrition, and diversity. His research focuses on understanding how clinicians' work experiences may impact patient safety and quality of care. He completed residency training at Northwestern University and also has advanced training in clinical investigation (MSCI, Northwestern) and bioethics (MBE, University of Pennsylvania).
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Christopher Bennett, MD, MSc, MA
Physician Scientist
Stanford University Department of Emergency Medicine
Christopher Bennett, MD, MSc, MA, is a physician scientist in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. His research interests include better understanding American's access to both emergency departments and emergency physician care. Dr. Bennett completed residency training at Harvard Medical School's program in Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Bennett holds an undergraduate degree from Winthrop University (BS in Biology), a graduate degree from Duke University (MA in Genetics and Genomics), a medical degree (MD) from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Medicine, and a graduate degree from Stanford University MSc in Epidemiology). In addition to his formal graduate training, Bennett was previously a scientist with the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and a researcher with the Emergency Medicine Network based at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital. Christopher previously served on the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Board of Directors and the SAEM Foundation Board of Trustees. -
Bryan G. Kane, MD, FACEP
Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network
Bryan Kane, MD is a Professor of Medicine with the University of South Florida. His teaching and research abilities were recognized with induction to the University's Academy of Distinguished Educators and to the Robert A. Good Honor Society. At Lehigh Valley Health Network, he is the Associate Program Director (Research) for the Emergency Medicine Residency. Currently the President of the Medical Staff, he has previously served on the Institutional Review Board as the Vice-Chair. A past Chair of SAEM's Evidence Based Healthcare Improvement IG, he led a consensus effort to evaluate the resident Scholarly Requirement. He currently serves on SAEM's Workforce Taskforce. He is active in CORD, having served as the Research Track Chair and on the COVID Taskforce. Within ACEP, he has authored textbook chapters, is on the PACEP Research Committee, and was named "PACEP Physician of the Year". He received his undergraduate degree at Yale, completed medical school at UPenn, and trained in Emergency Medicine at Yale. His educational passions are around Evidence Based Medicine, where he has designed a Journal Club tied to a validated EBM metric.
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Michelle D. Lall, MD, MHS
Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. Michelle D. Lall, a board-certified emergency medicine physician, is a Professor at Emory University. She has been on faculty at Emory since 2013. She was an Associate Residency Director for 7 years. She is currently the inaugural Director of Well-being, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for Emory Emergency Medicine and the Senior Medical Education Fellowship Director for Emergency Medicine. Prior to coming to Emory, Dr. Lall was an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University beginning in 2008. She was an Assistant Residency Director at the Sinai-Grace/Wayne State University Emergency Medicine Residency Program and the medical student clerkship site director at Sinai-Grace/Wayne State University beginning in 2009. Dr. Lall is a graduate of Wayne State University School of Medicine. She completed her residency and chief residency at Emory University.
Dr. Lall is actively involved in the teaching and supervision of medical students and residents. Dr. Lall’s primary interests are physician well-being and the negative impact of gender bias on equity and inclusion in medicine. She is interested in gender differences in burnout among physicians. She has previously presented didactics on physician well-being and gender bias in medicine at multiple signature regional and national annual meetings of medical educators. Dr. Lall is part of a national emergency medicine work group focused on exploring and addressing gender and racial bias and disparities in academic emergency medicine. Additionally, she is the lead author on two scoping reviews of assessment tools available to evaluate physician well-being and co-author on several papers addressing gender bias in Emergency Medicine.
Her professional memberships include: American College of Emergency Physicians – where she is a fellow, Society for Academic Emergency Physicians - where she is secretary/treasurer on the Board of Directors, Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine - where she is a Past President, American Association of Women Emergency Physicians, and Georgia College of Emergency Physicians. She is also a member of the Delta Omega Honor Society. Dr. Lall is a recipient of the Momentum Award from the Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM), which recognizes extraordinary efforts that further the mission and values of AWAEM. While at Sinai-Grace/Wayne State University, Dr. Lall was a two time "Faculty Teacher of the Year" award winner. At Emory, she has been a two time recipient of the “Faculty Advocate of the Year” award. In 2020, Dr. Lall was named one of the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association 25 Under 45 Influencers in Emergency Medicine whose contributions embody the spirit of the specialty. Dr. Lall is a recipient of the AWAEM Mid-Career Award, which honors mid-career female faculty who have shown promise for significant career achievements in emergency medicine through research, education, service, advocacy, or administration, and/or who have worked to promote the role of women in academic emergency medicine.
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D. Mark Courtney, MD MSci
Executive Vice Chair, Academic Affairs
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Dr. D. Mark Courtney is a Professor and Executive Vice Chair of Academic Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Courtney works clinically at Clements University Hospital, a large quaternary care center serving complex care patients in North Texas, and Parkland Memorial Hospital, the busiest emergency department by volume in the US. His main areas of interest are diagnostic test assessment, pretest probability for cardiopulmonary and vascular disease, and the detection and treatment of PE starting in the emergency department. He is a former Board Member and President of SAEM. Dr. Courtney's more recent academic interests beyond the scope of thrombosis and hemostasis include professional coaching as a tool to enhance wellbeing and happiness. -
Yvette Calderon, MD
Dr. Calderon is currently a tenured Emergency Medicine (EM) professor at the Icahn School of Medicine and Chair of the Department of EM at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. She will transition to her new role as the SKMC Department Chair of Emergency Medicine
and the Jefferson Health System Leader for Emergency Medicine in April. She is renowned for her lifelong commitment to providing care to the underserved, finding solutions to address disparate medical care in vulnerable communities, and promoting diversity in medicine to reflect the diversity of patients served. It must be stressed that her research has been nationally and internationally transformational in incorporating public health initiatives in EM. She designed and implemented screening programs to identify patients with undiagnosed and/or untreated HIV/HCV and successfully linked these patients to care. She was appointed to the National Academy of Medicine in 2022. Dr. Calderon received her medical degree and Master of Science in Clinical Research Methods from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and her undergraduate degree at Brown University. Dr. Calderon completed her medical internship at Beth Israel Medical Center and her residency at Jacobi Medical Center.