FELLOWSHIPS & EM ORGANIZATIONS

1. FELLOWSHIPS &EM ORGANIZATIONS

2. Why a Fellowship • Increase knowledge base • Increase marketability • Establish expertise • Build framework for national opportunities • Develop local, regional and national growth of area • Increase career satisfaction • Increase confidence as academician

3. PROS expertise professional contacts academic opportunities marketability personal satisfaction CONS additional time and training marginal “costs” pigeonhole/bias possible decrease in clinical skills no guarantees ... Fellowships in EM

4. Pediatrics Medical Toxicology Sports Medicine Critical Care Hyperbaric Research Administration Education EMS International Ultrasound Cardiovascular Fellowships in EMAccredited(ACGME) Non-accredited

5. Research Fellowship • Select your mentor • Work well together • Experienced • Develop your project • Your idea • Mentor’s project • Apply for funding • Government • Foundations • Corporate

6. Pediatric EM Fellowship • Board Certification by ABEM and AAP • 2 or 3 years • Job Opportunities • Expert in EM group • Work in Pediatric ED • Academic faculty

7. Medical Toxicology Fellowship • Board certification • Two year fellowship • Job Opportunities • Expert in EM group • Manage an inpatient toxicology service • Poison Control • Academic faculty

8. Sports Medicine Fellowship • Board Certification by ABEM and ABFP • 1-2 year fellowship • Career Opportunities • Academic EM • Sports Medicine • Inpatient service • Arts medicine

9. Administration Fellowship • EM group or agency • Individually designed • One year fellowship • Career Opportunities • Group Leader • Leader in medical organizations • Government SAEM Headquarters

10. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Fellowship • Not a boarded fellowship • 1-2 year fellowship • Career Opportunities • EMS director • Group EMS director • Paramedic education • EMS policy maker

11. Critical Care Fellowship • New idea in EM • Currently EM grads cannot sit the ABMS CC boards • Available to EM/ IM graduates • New Track • IM + EM + Critical Care = 6 years • Triple certification

12. Cardiovascular Emergencies Fellowship • 1-2 year fellowship • Develops EM leaders in cardiovascular field • Focus on administration or research of cardiovascular services • Echo, exercise testing & CT angiography training • Can be linked to MS or MPH degree • Job Opportunities • Chest pain center director • EMS-Cardiology integration director • EM Cardiovascular research director • EM Pediatric Cardiology Director

13. Educational Fellowship • 1-2 year fellowship • Specialized training in teaching methodology • Specialty specific • ACEP/EMF • EM residency • University based • Degree program • Medical school

14. Ultrasound fellowship • One year fellowship • Possible American registered diagnostic medical sonographer (ARDMS) certification • Bedside ultrasound by treating physician • Job opportunity • EM Ultrasound director • QA/QI sonographer

15. Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine Fellowship • Board certification • One year fellowship • Hyperbaric chamber operation and therapy • Deep sea diving operations and therapy • Job opportunities • HBO medical director • HBO physician • Undersea/scuba physician

16. International Emergency Medicine 1-2 year fellowship Travel the World Uniquely trained to be useful in underdeveloped areas

17. EM Organizations • ACEP • SAEM • EMRA • AAEM • ABEM

18. Largest EM physician organization • Fellowship available (FACEP) when specific requirements are met • Scientific Assembly annually • Research Forum in the fall

19. Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) • Teaching & Research • Annual meeting - May • Students may join • Committee and task force involvement • Medical student sessions • Medical student resources

20. Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA) • Affiliated with ACEP • Medical student section • Resources for students • Printed materials • Committees • Web site • Leadership roles for medical students

21. American Academy of Emergency Medicine • Represents practitioners in Emergency Medicine • Annual educational meetings • Medical student section available

22. American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) • EM licensing board • Member of the American Board of Medical Specialties • Works in conjunction with other EM agencies to advance the specialty.

23. Certification Procedure • Complete approved EM residency program • Written Certification Examination • Given in the fall after residency graduation • Oral Examination • Series of vignettes of common ED patients • May take after passing written exam • Periodic recertification/lifetime learning

24. Emergency Medicine Journals • Many journals are targeted toward EM

25. Summary • Varied career possibilities • Active and interesting cases

26. Author credit-EM Fellowships:Wendy Coates MD & David Cheng MD Questions

27. 1) Career Planning – Garmel 2) Careers in Academic EM – Sokolove 3) Private Practice Career Options - Holliman 4) Fellowship/EM Organizations – Coates/Cheng 5) CV – Garmel 6) Interviewing – Garmel 7) Contracts for Emergency Physicians – Franks 8) Salary & Benefits – Hevia 9) Malpractice – Derse/Cheng 10) Clinical Teaching in the ED – Wald 11) Teaching Tips – Ankel 12) Mentoring - Ramundo 13) Negotiation – Ramundo 14) ABEM Certifications – Cheng 15) Patient Satisfaction – Cheng 16) Billing, Coding & Documenting – Cheng/Hall 17) Financial Planning – Hevia 18) Time Management – Promes 19) Balancing Work & Family – Promes & Datner 20) Physician Wellness & Burnout – Conrad /Wadman 21) Professionalism – Fredrick 22) Cases for professionalism & ethics – SAEM 23) Medical Directorship – Proctor 24) Academic Career Guide Chapter 1-8 – Nottingham 25) Academic career Guide Chapter 9-16 – Noeller Postresidency Tools of the Trade CD