Emergency Medicine Residency Curricular Innovations: Creating a Virtual Emergency Medicine Didactic Conference

A Longitudinal Emergency Medical Services Track in Emergency Medicine Residency

Emergency medicine residency programs offer Emergency Medical Services (EMS) curricula to address Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) milestones. While some programs offer advanced clinical tracks in EMS, no standard curriculum exists. We sought to establish a well-defined EMS curriculum to allow interested residents to develop advanced clinical skills and scholarship w...

Selection criteria for emergency medicine residency applicants.

OBJECTIVES To determine the criteria used by emergency medicine (EM) residency selection committees to select their residents, to determine whether there is a consensus among residency programs, to inform programs of areas of possible inconsistency, and to better educate applicants pursuing careers in EM. METHODS A questionnaire consisting of 20 items based on the current Electronic Residency...

Identifying inaccuracies on emergency medicine residency applications

BACKGROUND Previous trials have showed a 10-30% rate of inaccuracies on applications to individual residency programs. No studies have attempted to corroborate this on a national level. Attempts by residency programs to diminish the frequency of inaccuracies on applications have not been reported. We seek to clarify the national incidence of inaccuracies on applications to emergency medicine re...

A multiple-mini interview (MMI) for emergency medicine residency admissions: A brief report and qualitative analysis

Introduction: A multiple-mini interview (MMI) is a type ofstructured interview, which may assess many non-cognitivedomains in residency applicants. There are few studies on MMIduring the emergency medicine (EM) residency admissionsprocess in the United States. We sought to determine the strengths,weaknesses, and acceptability of a pilot MMI for EM residencyadmissions.Methods: We piloted a five-...

Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors/Academic Emergency Medicine supplement - the inaugural edition.