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2019/20 Competition
2018/19 Competition
EM Advancement Fund Grants
CAEP-SREMI Grants
Understanding parental preferences for shared decision-making in the management of febrile young infants
Identifying challenges in the transition from residency to independent practice: a longitudinal comparison of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine physicians
Grizzly Den Grant
Dr. Christopher Skappak
SEPSIS ED: Identifying urinary biomarkers of patients with early sepsis in the emergency department
CAEP-CanVECTOR Grant
There was no suitable recipient for the 2018/19 competition.
Junior Investigator Grants
Low dose intravenous ketorolac in renal colic: a pilot study to plan a randomized controlled trial
Dr. Michael Hale
Residency selection in emergency medicine: a national program director and medical student survey
Dr. Catherine Patocka
Does a 72-hour re-admission alert notification foster physician reflection? A mixed methods realist evaluation
Les bêtabloquants en réanimation cardiorespiratoire : une revue systématique
A qualitative study to explore the patient experience with emergency department visits for hyperglycemia
2017/18 Competition
CAEP Can-Vector Grant
MD PGY-3
The Costs of PE Imaging in Canada
EM Advancement Fund Grants
Junior Investigator Grants
Prognostic accuracy of the quick sequential (sepsis-related) organ failure assessment (qSOFA) in emergency department patients with suspected infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Identifying Subgroups And Risk Among Frequent Emergency Department Users: Whose needs can safely be met elsewhere?
Identifying impact and causes of delays to interfacility transfers for injured patients transported by air ambulance to a trauma center
Validation of a clinical risk score for acute aortic dissection
Prehospital Trauma Handover in Manitoba: Exploring Barriers to Effective Communication and Developing a Standardized Handover Tool
2016/17 Competition
CAEP Can-Vector Grant
Patient preferences in emergency CT scanning for pulmonary embolism
EM Advancement Fund Grants
Junior Investigator Grants
Analysis of Bystander CPR Quality During Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests Using Data Derived from Automated External Defibrillators
Transition to practice: evaluating the need for formal training in supervision and assessment techniques among senior emergency medicine residents and new to practice emergency physicians
A prospective randomized pilot trial to reduce readmission for frail elderly patients with acute decompensated heart failure
Improving patient care by engaging Emergency Department staff in a participatory design of a Patient Safety Event reporting platform at an urban tertiary care hospital
Can Emergency Physicians Reliably Perform Carotid Artery Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Detect Critical Stenosis?
2015/16 Competition
EM Advancement Fund Grants
Junior Investigator Grants
Dennis Cho
Optimizing Practice for Learning Emergency Department Transthoracic Echocardiography Using an Ultrasound Simulator
Véronique Dion
Définition des valeurs normales de la veine cave inférieure en pédiatrie à l’échographie au département d’urgence
Jean-Simon Letourneau
Acceptabilité et adaptation pour l’urgence d’un outil d’aide à la prise de décision partagée dans le recours à l’antibiothérapie pour traiter les infections respiratoires aigues
Laurie Robichaud
The Use of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of Acute Infectious Mononucleosis in the Emergency Department
Brent Thoma
The METR:IQ (Medical Education and Translational Resources: Indicators of Quality) Study: Assessing the quality of novel educational resources
The 1996 – 2014 winners have been archived. Please contact kwyatt@caep.ca if you would like access to those lists.