Leads: Hashim Kareemi, Frank Scheuermeyer, Kendall Ho

Panelists: Maxim Ben-Yakov, Elyse Berger Pelletier, Gautam Goel, Kiran Grant, Lars Grant, Justin Hall, Jake Hayward, Jessalyn Holodinsky, Henry Li, Shaun Mehta, Akshay Rajaram.

Academic Section Representatives: Kerstin de Wit and Eddy Lang

 Goals

• Understand the landscape of AI-CDS models in the ED by conducting a scoping review of the literature and analyzing studies by their phase of development.
• Identify barriers and facilitators at the development stage of AI-CDS models that impact implementation into ED workflows by conducting a qualitative study involving interviews with experienced researchers.
• Establish consensus on research standards for the development of AI-CDS models for use in the ED by conducting a consensus activity with CAEP members at the academic symposium session.

Lead: Patrick Archambault

Panelists: Lorraine Graves (Patient partner), Shelley McLeod, Corinne Hohl. Shirin Golchi, Ivy Cheng, Andrew McRae, Srinivas Murthy

Academic Section Representatives: Kerstin de Wit and Eddy Lang

Goals

Leads: Patrick McLane

Panelists:  Patrick Archambault, Cheryl Barnabe, Jennifer Bryan, Teresa Chan, Michael Corman, Katie Dainty, Annette Browne

Academic Section Representative: Kerstin de Wit and Eddy Lang

 Goals:

• Explain the importance of qualitative research for the discipline of EM, with key examples.
• Discuss qualitative research as important for advancing equity, and valuing diverse worldviews.
• Develop guidance on conducting and publishing high quality qualitative research relevant to the discipline of EM.

Leads: Shawn Mehta and Katie Gardner

Panelists: Sandy Tse, Justin Hall, Daniel Rosenfeld, Kiran Grant, Kendall Ho, David Bradbury-Squires

Academic Section Representatives: Lucas Chartier and Eddy Lang

 Goals

• Characterize the evolution and current state of virtual care in emergency medicine in Canada in a post-pandemic world.
• Dissect key considerations in infrastructural, human resources and health system levels needed to support the evolution of virtual care models in emergency medicine.
• Provide quality improvement approaches and associated metrics required to support safe and sustainable models of virtual care in emergency medicine.

Leads: Samuel Vaillancourt and Sasha Litwin

Panelists: Simon Berthelot, Lindsay Clarke, Cathie Hofstetter, Morgan Hutchinson, Frederique Kyomi-Labelle, Shawn Mondoux, Amanda Sammann

Academic Section Representatives: Lucas Chartier and Eddy Lang

Goals

• Describe how to use design methods to solve problems that are important to patients
• Define how patients can be meaningfully involved in emergency department improvements
• Delineate how we should measure impact from the patient perspective

Leads: Carmen Hrymak and Rod Lim

Panelists:  Al’ai Alvarez, Sheena Belisle, Chris Hicks, Sachin Trivedi, Eve Purdy

Academic Section Representative: Lucas Chartier and Eddy Lang

 Goals:

• Describe the interplay between well-being and QIPS
• Moving towards improved well-being using a QIPS framework
• Advancing QIPS through a well-being lens

Leads: Catherine Patocka & Robert Primavesi

Panelists:  Adam Burcheri, Alexandre Coutin, Alexandre Elhalwi, Amir Ali, Anjali Pandya, Austin Gagné, Bobby Johnston, Brent Thoma, Connie Leblanc, Frédéric Fovet, John Gallinger (CaRMS), Juan Mohadeb, Mirna Ragheb, Sandy Dong, Segun Oyedokun, Sheila Smith, Tate Newmarch, Vanessa Knight

Academic Section Representative: Tamara McColl

 Goals

• Improve access to equitable health care for Canadians from equity-deserving populations
• Describe current resident selection processes with respect to equity, diversity, and inclusion
• Identify best practices to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion in resident selectionPropose recommendations for resident selection that will allow Canadian emergency medicine programs to achieve representation that reflects the diversity of the Canadian population
• Implement high-yield processes to incorporate equity, diversity, and inclusion in resident selection

Leads: Warren Cheung & Tamara McColl

Panelists: Alkarim Velji, Avik Nath, Daniel Ting, Fareen Zaver, Jason Frank, Kirk Magee, Lisa Thurgur, Mackenzie Russel, Quinten Patterson, Rob Woods, Stella Yiu

Academic Section Representative: Tamara McColl

Goals

• Explore the curricular components and training experiences that Canadian Royal College EM residency training programs have used to prepare their graduates for independent practice,
• Gather the perceived needs of senior residents, recent graduates and program leaders to inform a set of recommendations for TTP curricula.

Leads: Heather Murray & Andrew Hall

Panelists:  Alexandra Stefan, Jill McEwen, Nicole Rocca, Teresa Chan, Teresa Wawrykow, Tim Chaplin

Academic Section Representative: Tamara McColl

 Goals:

• Identify various gaps in practice amongst Canadian emergency physicians.
• Explore current onboarding practices across Canada for physicians returning to clinical practice after extended leaves of absence.
• Determine ideal educational and support structures for physicians returning from gaps in practice in Emergency Medicine

Leads: Jennifer Bryan
Panelists: Dominick Shelton, Prashant Phalper, Dawn Giffin, Constance Leblanc, Sara Alavian, Dillan Radomske, James Liu
Academic Section Representatives: Rodrick Lim, Judy Morris

Goals:

1. How can emergency departments best promote culturally safe practices in caring for patients?
2. How can we support postgraduate trainees in emergency medicine in developing tools to address racism and colonialism in their practices?
3. How can we create clinical and academic environments conducive to the success of BIPOC emergency physicians?

Access publication here.

Lead: Emma McIlveen-Brown
Panelists: Taylor Bischoff, Alyson Byrne, Teresa Chan, Katrina Hurley, Kirsten Johnson, Chau Pham, Gillian Sheppard, Miriam Mann, Isabella Menchetti, Alim Pardhan, Ayesha Zia
Academic Section Representatives: Rodrick Lim, Judy Morris

Goals:

1. How can we identify and address gender bias as it affects women and non-binary physicians’ day-to-day experiences in emergency medicine?
2. How can we identify and reduce the impact of gender bias on medical trainees and improve access to emergency medicine mentorship for women and non-binary trainees?
3. What are the gender-related barriers to advancement in academic and organizational leadership and what changes to existing systems are needed to address these?
4. What systems and policies in emergency medicine discriminate based on gender and what work needs to be done to improve these?

Access publication here.

Leads: Robert Primavesi
Panelists: Blair Bigham, Adam Burcheri, Karen BK Chan, Alexandre Coutin, Justin Koh, Michael Kruse, Kelly Lien, Hilary MacCormick, Victor Ng, Scott Odorizzi, Vincent Poirier, Nadia Primiani, Sheila Smith, Rahim Thawer, Suneel Upadhye, Clare Wallner
Academic Section Representatives: Rodrick Lim, Judy Morris

Goals:

1. To improve access to equitable health care for members of SGM communities.
2. To determine if there is a gap in the education of emergency physicians vis-a-via culturally competent 2SLGBTQIA+ healthcare.
3. To generate practical recommendations on improving education about SGMs within emergency medicine in Canada.
4. To make recommendations for a SGM related health curriculum in Canadian emergency residency programs.

Access publication here.

Leads: Jeff Perry, Ian Stiell
Panelists: Marcel Emond, Corinne Hohl, Jacques Lee, Christian Vaillancourt, Judy Morris, Venkatesh Thiruganasambandamoorthy
Academic Section Representatives: Jeff Perry, Andrew McRae

Goals:

1. Know how to utilize best practices to lead a collaborative team to write a successful grant application.
2. Know what comprises optimal study communication and dynamics during an active study.
3. Know how to optimize abstract writing and polishing.
4. Be able to describe optimal manuscript writing collaboration.

Lead: Phil Davis
Panelists: Alix Carter, Kerstin de Wit, Shelley McLeod, Marco Sivilotti, Justin Yan, Patrick Archambault, Naveen Poonai, Dave Savage
Academic Section Representatives: Jeff Perry, Andrew McRae

Goals:

1. To ascertain barriers and facilitators to starting, building and sustaining a program of research in Emergency Medicine in Canada at sites with limited infrastructure and prior experience.
2. To provide recommendations for starting, building and sustaining a program of research in Emergency Medicine in Canada through group discussion and iterative feedback.

Provide feedback on panel 2’s recommendations.

Leads: Lucas Chartier, Stuart Douglas
Panelists: Lisa Calder, Samuel Vaillancourt, Antonia Stang, Davy Tawadrous, Laila Nasser, Carmen Hrymak
Academic Section Representatives: Jeff Perry, Andrew McRae

Goals:

1. To present similarities and differences between the methodologies used by researchers and quality improvement (QI) experts through a scoping review and national stakeholder engagement process.
2. To provide a rationale for the need for collaboration for improved success.
3. To provide recommendations as to how QI experts and researchers can best collaborate to maximize the impact of their projects for patients.

Provide feedback on panel 3’s recommendations.

Leads: Andrew Hall, Tim Chaplin
Panelists: Nicole Rocca, Tamara McColl, Kyla Caners, Farhan Bhanji, Andrew Petrosoniak, Carlyn Denton
Academic Section Representatives: Jeff Perry, Rob Woods

Goals: To develop a set of recommendations or best practices for utilizing simulation for assessment

Lead: Tamara McColl, Warren Cheung
Panelists:Jill McEwen, Sandy Dong, Catherine Patocka, Teresa Chan, Lynsey Martin, Karen Hauer
Academic Section Representatives: Jeff Perry, Rob Woods

Goal: To develop a set of guidelines or best practices for trainee progress and promotions

Leads: Teresa Chan, Brent Thoma
Panelists: Quinten Patterson, Fareen Zaver, Stan Hamstra, Alexandra Stefan, Andrew Hall
Academic Section Representatives: Jeff Perry, Rob Woods

Goals: To develop recommendations on linking educational outcomes and clinical practice.

Leads: Lucas Chartier, Shawn Mondoux
Panelists: Shawn Dowling, Edmund Kwok, Antonia Stang, Sachin Trivedi, Adam Dukelow, Joshua Tepper
Academic Section Representatives: Ian Stiell, Eddy Lang

Goals:

1. To understand barriers, facilitators and the current Canadian context for the pursuit of quality improvement (QI) projects through a national survey and literature review.
2. To provide guidance on the development of emergency department capacity aimed at supporting and leading inter-departmental QI projects, through best-practice recommendations on how to build a local QI program and a collection of relevant resources available for clinicians.

Lead: Aaron Johnston
Panelists: Shirley Lee, Etienne van der Linde, Jim Christenson, Doug Myhre, Kylie Bosman, Yasmine Mawji, David Fu
Academic Section Representatives: Ian Stiell, Eddy Lang

Goal:

• To make pragmatic recommendations on how academic departments of emergency medicine can strengthen relationships along the continuum of rural-regional-tertiary-quaternary emergency departments to support academic work in all of these settings.

Leads: Kirsten Johnson, Megan Landes
Panelists: Simon Pulfrey, Andrew Kestler, Michael Schull, Susan Bartels, Ayesha Khory, Cheri Nijssen-Jordan, Gregory Marton, Shannon Chun, Amanda Collier
Academic Section Representatives: Ian Stiell, Eddy Lang

Goals:

1. Explore our experience in global health in EM in Canada (research, education, clinical practice, capacity building) including success, challenges and barriers to global health practice
2. Describe ingredients for successful engagement within the following areas: academic environment, leadership, faculty needs, programmatic best practices
3. Define key recommendations for global health engagement in academic departments
4. Describe special considerations and future areas for exploration in enhancing global health EM best practices in departments

Academic Symposium 2017:  Better Research Through Engagement, Implementation, and Knowledge Translation

Saturday, June 3, 2017 at CAEP 2017 in Whistler

Panel 1: How to engage the patient & public in EM research and implementation

Engagement Panelists: Patrick Archambault (chair), Antoine Boivin, Katie Dainty, Jacques Lee, Shelley McLeod, Christian Vaillancourt
Academic Section Representatives: Jeff Perry, Ian Stiell

Conducting patient-oriented studies is the new reality for clinical research. We will be making pragmatic recommendations on the best practices, facilitators, and barriers for the engagement of patients and the public in EM research studies. Specifically, this panel will develop recommendations to improve and standardize patient engagement in 1) planning and executing EM research, and 2) translating research findings into practice.

Panel 2: How to engage physicians in EM research and how to conduct implementation trials

Implementation Panelists: Andrew McRae (co-chair), Ian Stiell (co-chair), Jamie Brehaut, Janet Curran, Marcel Émond, Corinne Hohl, Monica Taljaard
Academic Section Representative: Jeff Perry

We will be making recommendations for engaging physicians to facilitate primary research studies in the ED. These may include prospective data collection and clinical trials, among other study designs. The panel will review different strategies to encourage physicians to participate in timely and accurate data collection.

We will also be making recommendations for the optimal conduct of implementation studies in the ED. Such studies generally involve changes in behaviour by clinicians, such as ordering imaging, performing CPR, and removal of cervical spine immobilization.

Implementation studies seek to demonstrate the actual impact on patient outcomes for new processes of care. The panel will review different study designs as well methods for ensuring optimal compliance among participating physicians, nurses, and paramedics.

Panel 3: How to ensure evidence impacts care through successful implementation or knowledge translation 
Implementation Panelists: Kerstin de Wit (co-chair), Laurie Morrison (co-chair), Janet Curran, Shawn Dowling, Eddy Lang, Brent Thoma
Academic Section Representatives: Jeff Perry, Ian Stiell

Implementation Science or Knowledge Translation, is the study of methods to promote the uptake of research findings and guidelines into routine health care in clinical, organizational, or policy contexts. Recognizing the challenging environment of emergency medicine, the goal of this session is to develop recommendations for the establishment of evidence based practices in local emergency departments that are based on implementation science and expert guidance. In particular, the session will examine the role of social media and emergency medicine specific interventions in translating the best evidence in emergency medicine to the bedside.

Academic Symposium 2016: Emergency Physician Educators & Scholars…the Path to Success!

Saturday, June 4, 2016 at CAEP 2016 in Québec City

The vision of the Academic Section is to promote high-quality emergency patient care by conducting world-leading education and research in emergency medicine. Through its three working groups focused on leadership/administration, education, and research, the Academic Section delivers the annual Academic Symposium.

How do I prepare for a CAREER in medical education? 
Panel Lead: Rob Woods
Panelists: Farhan Bhanji, Sandy Dong, Simon Field, Chris Hicks, Rose Mengual, Sheila Smith, Stella Yiu

Draft Recommendations
1. It is recommended that all Clinician Educators in Emergency Medicine be competent in the following domains: Leadership, Communication, Assessment and Curriculum Development.

2. Advanced training in medical education is recommended for those pursuing an Emergency Medicine Clinician Educator role.  Advanced training CAN be in the form of a Masters Degree, but focussed training on specific skills is also an option.

3. In planning the area of advanced training for a future clinician educator role, the skills of the existing local Clinician Educators should be considered and complemented.

4. Academic and Hospital Emergency Medicine Department Heads should support their future clinician educators to pursue advanced training in Medical Education through preferential work scheduling or protected time, and financial support.

5. Academic and Hospital Emergency Medicine Department Heads should advocate for promotion processes that are in-line with the career path for Clinician Educators, which may be different than traditional research-focussed promotion criteria.

6. The CAEP Academic Section should support the mentorship of future Clinician Educators on a national scale.

How do I PUBLISH in the field of medical education?
Panel Lead: Teresa Chan
Panelists: Andrew Hall, Aleisha Murnaghan, Brent Thoma, Daniel Ting, Carly Hagel, Kirsten Weersink, Jill McEwen, Ryan Brydges, Farhan Bhanji, Jonathan Sherbino

How do I have IMPACT in the field of medical education?  
Panel Lead: Jason Frank
Panelists: Glen Bandiera, Warren Cheung, Connie LeBlanc, Robert Primavesi, Jonathan Sherbino, Rob Woods

Draft Impact Recommendations

1. Two career arcs for highly impactful educators.

• To lead innovation/change either because of or in spite of traditional structures high-quality way with dedicated metrics.

2. Enablers of high impact.

• CAEP facilitates matching aspiring educators with senior mentors.
• CAEP advocates for protected time and resources.
• Early career educators should identify their passion, seek a community of practice of like-minded people (both inside and outside our specialty/country) and develop an attitude of resilience to seek out opportunities.
• To immerse yourself in an area of interest and eventually evolve that into a defined academic niche.

3. Multi-faceted work-life
4. Motivations

• External formal: CAEP should facilitate processes and venues that increase external informal recognition to ultimately increase motivations to make an impact on medical education.

5. The Many Faces of “Impact” or Success
6. Disruptive technologies

• To define the impact of educators using disruptive technologies.
• To increase digital literacy.
• To employ and carefully adopt new or appropriate tools to evaluate disruptive technologies as related to education and scholarship.
• Be valued as a potential significant contribution to education scholarship in EM.
• Distributive technologies should be respected and acknowledged for its capacity to reach and influence a wide range of learners, clinicians, and educators. In light of their ability to bypass traditional structures and their potential for greater reach these technologies require critical evaluation.

7. Evolution of impact

Academic Symposium 2015: How to improve emergency medicine academic leadership, governance, and funding at your university

Saturday, May 30 at CAEP 2015 in Edmonton

How to build Leadership within the EM academic community and beyond

Leader: Doug Sinclair
Panelists: Jim Worthington, Gary Joubert, Brian Holroyd, James Stempien, Tim Rutledge, Eric Letovsky and Connie LeBlanc

• To define the key elements of leadership and leadership models (and potentially present short video vignettes of high level leaders from emergency medicine)
• To recommend specific steps to build and strengthen leadership within the academic emergency medicine community in Canada (e.g., mentorship, succession planning, courses and resources)

Materials

Video: Leadership Video Series
Suggested Reading (by Andrew McCallum):

• Harvard Business Review Leadership Series
• Wall Street Journal Management Series
• Peter Drucker
• James C. Collins “Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t”
• Clayton M. Christensen “The Innovator’s Dilemma“
• John M. Bryson “Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations”
• Thomas Kuhn “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”

What are the best models for University EM governance and administration?

Leader: David Petrie
Panelists: Gordon R. Jones, Anil Chopra, John Tallon, Shannon MacPhee, Michael Schull, Margaret Ackerman and Alecs Chochinov

• To define effectiveness as an outcome of an emergency medicine academic program
• To describe current governance and administration models and relate them to the overall effectiveness of the academic unit
• To point out variability and gaps across Canada and determine best models to develop, sustain and grow strong academic programs

Materials

Presentation Slides: Governance Panel Presentation 
Handouts:

1. Questions to ask yourself about your academic department
2. Top 10 aspects of good “internal” governance
3. Why should EM be an academic department

Bibliography: Governance Panel Bibliography
Draft Recommendations: Governance Panel Recommendations

What is an appropriate amount of funding and how to achieve it

Leader: Eddy Lang
Panelists: Claude Topping, Tia Renouf, Anthony Crocco, Marc Afilalo and Francois Belanger

• To report on funding for academic EM programs across Canada
• To benchmark academic unit support against expectations in the areas of administration, undergraduate education, postgraduate education and research
• To determine best strategies to grow and establish sustainable funding across Canadian university EM departments/divisions

Materials

Presentation Slides: Funding Panel Presentation
Draft Recommendations: Funding Panel Recommendations

Academic Symposium 2014: How to make research succeed in your department

CAEP 2014 in Ottawa

The vision of the Academic Section is to promote high-quality emergency patient care by conducting world-leading education and research in emergency medicine. Through its three working groups focused on leadership/administration, education, and research, the Academic Section delivers the annual Academic Symposium. Last year, it focussed on education, and this year’s focus is research. The 2014 Academic Symposium has three sections, each led by panels with participation from across Canada. For nearly a year, each panel has met regularly and addressed specific questions aimed at the overall objective of making research succeed in your department.

Panel 1: Achieving Excellence in Canadian Resident Research

Lisa Calder’s panel has investigated expectations and requirements of the resident research programs across Canada by surveying program directors from each medical school. A systematic review of emergency medicine resident research programs will be discussed and help formulate recommendations for the improvement of Canadian resident research programs.

Panel 2: Training and Developing Career EM Researchers in Canada

At this year’s Academic Symposium, Jeff Perry’s panel will discuss how to train and develop career researchers.  Through survey information gathered directly from Canadian career researchers, as well as a systematic literature review, the panel will present findings and initial recommendations addressing the training and developing career emergency medicine researchers.

Panel 3: Funding of Canadian EM Research

Christian Vaillancourt’s panel has examined the different research funding models from across Canada, including the use/disbursement of funds and funding sources.  A list of resources will be made available, and personal (expert) accounts of securing research funding will be described.  A discussion of challenges will inform a list of recommendations for publication.

The findings and recommendations from the 2014 Academic Research Symposium have been published in CJEM.

• Executive summary of the CAEP 2014 Academic Symposium: How to make research succeed in your department
• CAEP 2014 Academic Symposium: How to make research succeed in your department: How to fund your research program
• CAEP 2014 Academic Symposium: How to make research succeed in your emergency department: How to develop and train career researchers in emergency medicine
• CAEP 2014 Academic Symposium: How to make research succeed in your emergency department: Achieving excellence in residents’ research

Academic Symposium 2013 on Education Scholarship

CAEP 2013 in Vancouver

How do we advance EM education? How do I share my amazing education idea with the world? What is education scholarship? How do we increase the recognition of EM education in our hospitals and universities?

These were the questions discussed at the first CAEP Consensus Conference (now called the Academic Symposia), hosted by the new Academic Emergency Medicine Interest Group (now the Section of Academic Emergency Medicine). If you are an EM teacher, educator, program director, clerkship director, researcher, leader you need to be  at these events!

Colleagues came together on Saturday June 1,2013 to discuss and determine the advancement of EM education. Practical steps on how to turn your education idea into scholarship will be shared. Your Consensus Conference recommendations were to be published in the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Immediately after the Consensus Conference, individuals were invited to attend the meeting of the Academic Emergency Medicine Interest Group.

The findings and recommendations from the 2013 Academic Symposium on Education Scholarship have been published in CJEM.

• Education scholarship in emergency medicine part 1: innovating and improving teaching and learning
• Education scholarship in emergency medicine part 2: supporting and developing scholars
• Education scholarship in emergency medicine part 3: a “how-to” guide