Meredith Thompson, MD, FACEP

After completing my undergraduate education at the University of Florida (Go Gators!), I went on to complete my medical education at the University of Virginia. I continued my residency education in Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia as well where I served as chief resident and additionally completed a medical education fellowship. After fellowship I returned to Gainesville to join the faculty at the University of Florida in 2018 as an Assistant Clerkship Director. I have had the privilege to serve in many departmental educational roles throughout my career thus far including Assistant Clerkship Director (2018-2021), residency core faculty member (2019-present), (Clerkship Director (2021-present), and Director of Undergraduate Medical Education (2022-present). Additionally, I have been involved in educational committee work locally and nationally including as a member of our college’s Curriculum Committee, ACEP Academic Affairs Committee member, CORD ASCEM member/distribution chair, SAEM CDEM Curriculum and Assessment Committee member, and SAEM Educational Research Interest Group Member. I am also in my last year of a master's degree in education where I have been able to learn many important skills with respect to program evaluation as well as educational study methodology and techniques.

I firmly believe in the mission of CDEM to serve as a voice for EM educators and provide a forum for the development of resources and solutions to shared challenges. This forum is even more needed given the recent jobs report, a rapidly changing residency application landscape, and evolving viewpoints on the specialty of EM in the house of medicine. I am committed to advocating for the specialty that I love and that has so much to offer not only to future EM trainees but students who pursue other specialties alike. As a member at large I would like to ensure current initiatives to update and modernize the CDEM curriculum and testing platforms are successfully completed and remain useful/relevant to the membership. Additionally, I hope to continue current efforts for faculty development. This includes mentorship as well as creating additional resources for members to collaborate and advance scholarship efforts. Lastly, I would like to help CDEM champion initiatives for our specialty to promote educational equity for our students. Resources to support faculty education initiatives and for our membership to learn about best practices/innovations in evidence-based assessment techniques such as grading committees are needed.

I would be honored to serve as a Member-at-Large for CDEM to advocate for our students and their amazing educators!