Lauren Diercks, MD

My name is Lauren Diercks, and I am a PGY2 at Stanford Emergency Medicine Residency. I have served on the RAMS Board for four years, two years as a medical student representative, one as a Member at Large, and am currently Secretary Treasurer. If elected as President, I will continue to prioritize the membership experience. RAMS members derive value from career advancing involvement in SAEM through abstract presentation, committee involvement, didactics, and Pulse articles. The job of the RAMS Board is to promote those experiences for residents and medical students. In my prior roles on the RAMS Board, I created an EMIG survey to understand the medical student experience, collected data about current RAMS involvement in committees, and created the short term project form to increase RAMS involvement in committee and academy work. In addition to increasing deliverables for members, the board can modernize our virtual presence. My goal is to adjust from webinars, to short, palatable, written or video deliverables that will better align with membership needs and use the virtual presence SAEM is developing with the new website and social media. As president, I hope to facilitate the new website improvements to optimize the website so our members can reach the established roadmaps, curriculum, podcasts, webinars, and opportunities that already exist. My ultimate goal on the RAMS Board is to continue to create a quality membership experience that fosters career development for RAMS members.