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Newsletter of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine March/April 2006 Volume XVIII, Number 2
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Faculty Development in Emergency Medicine: A Backwards Step? The accompanying photo represents an important part of faculty development…Getting away! Taken by my wife while we were pleasantly lost in the South of France, it represents an essential element of any “Faculty Development Content listing”, ie, balancing Work versus the rest of your Life. It also offers a break from the face that has stared back at you for these last several months. It was not a setting tolerant of Hymenoptera sensitivity! “Since July, 1987 Faculty Development has been part of the Special Requirements for training in emergency medicine sponsored by the ACGME and monitored by the RRC-EM. It was included to stimulate resident training programs to add faculty as another group of students requiring an organized educational experience.” These two sentences began an editorial I wrote in 1988 that outlined the reasons why faculty development had not gained the level of support it needed in our specialty, after more than five years of dialogue on the topic. Subsequently, although the individual programmatic commitment to faculty development varies considerably, the specialty as a whole has responded most vigorously in its offerings. The CORD conference, “Navigating the Academic Waters,” was a centerpiece of this effort as is its current successor. SAEM has had a Faculty Development Committee since the late ‘90s derived from its earlier Education Committee. ACEP sponsors the EMBERS Course and the Teaching Fellowship experience in Emergency Medicine. Although all of these have emanated from a generalized interest in moving the academic credentials of this specialty and its faculty forward, I have always believed the key driving force behind this effort remained embedded with the sustained commitment of the RRC-EM to encourage and monitor faculty development activities in residency training programs as part of their accreditation charge. That is until most recently. (continued on page 11)
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AEM Outstanding Reviewers – 2005 The editors of Academic Emergency Medicine offer our sincere thanks to the 479 reviewers who assisted in peer review during 2005. Their generous voluntary participation has helped maintain the high quality of our journal and the medical literature. From January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005 AEM received 926 manuscripts (645 new submissions and 281 revisions). 1,480 reviews were obtained for new submissions that advanced to peer review, for an average of 4.7 reviews per new submission. For new submissions, turnaround time averaged 25 days to first decision. Each reviewer received an average of 3.7 requests to review and responded within 3 days. Reviewers took an average of 10 days to complete their reviews. We especially want to acknowledge a group of our reviewers who our decision editors have identified as outstanding among their peers. These individuals have provided at least five high quality reviews in a timely fashion. Their names are listed below and those designated with an * are also members of the AEM Editorial Board. The AEM outstanding reviewers for 2005 are:
Joel Bartfield, MD Robert Birkhahn, MD John Burton, MD Sean Bryant, MD Clifton W. Calloway, MD Kathleen Clem, MD D. Mark Courtney, MD Jim DuCharme, MD Bob Gerhardt, MD Michelle Gill, MD Louis Graff, MD Steve Green, MD Fred Hustey, MD Charlene Irvin, MD *Alan Jones, MD Justin Kaplan, MD *David Karras, MD Terry Kowalenko, MD Eddy Lang, MD E. Brooke Lerne, PhD, EMP-T John Marx, MD James Niemann, MD James Quinn, MD Kathy Rinnert, MD Steve Smith, MD Mark Turturro, MD *Henry Wang, MD Donald Yealy, MD
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