HIGHLIGHTING THE SAEM EMIG GRANT Corey Heitz, MD
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine Emergency medicine interest groups (EMIGs) help attract, interest, and educate aspiring physicians who have an interest in emergency medicine as a specialty. The SAEM Foundation each year provides grants up to $500 to assist these groups in the development of educational activities. The goals of the grant are to promote EM education at the student level, to identify educational methodologies that advance undergraduate education, and to support EMIGs nationally. Applications are reviewed by committee, and are graded on areas such as relevance to EM, clarity and realistic achievability of objectives, innovativeness, applicant qualifications (commitment to EM, mentorship, prior project completion), and institutional support for those projects requiring significant resources in excess of the award amount. The deadline for the upcoming year, July 1, 2014-June 30, 2015, is January 6, 2014. Applicants can go to http://bit.ly/HNfD8S for information regarding the application process. Applicants should be representatives of EMIGs, and the primary applicant may be a medical student if there is a faculty co-applicant. Faculty applicants must be SAEM members. The 2013-2014 awardees included Mike Kiefer at OHSU, “EM Ultrasound Blog as an Adjunct to the Preclinical Curriculum”; Julian Villar at UCSF, “Avalanche Rescue and Wilderness Trauma”; and Timothy Fortuna, VTCSOM, “Regional Emergency Medicine Interest Group Student Symposium.” ◗
THE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE The International Student Association of Emergency Medicine (ISAEM) was founded in October 2013 in Odense, Denmark by medical students Larshan Perinpam of Aarhus University and AnhNhi Thi Huynh of the University of Southern Denmark. Their aim in founding the organization was to create an international voice and network for medical student organizations in emergency medicine. The first member organization of ISAEM is Studerendes Organisation for Akutmedicinsk Speciale (SOFAS), a Danish organization for medical students interested in emergency medicine. The founders hope that in time ISAEM will become a venue for cooperation and collaboration among student EM organizations worldwide. ◗
For more information, please visit ISAEM’s website at isaem.net.
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