Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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The ACGME and RRCs help to establish and maintain a fertile environment for scholarly activity in residency programs. A role in education of academicians is a byproduct of the requirements describing characteristics of educational institutions and residency programs. The decision of an individual graduate of a program to enter an academic or other career is the outcome of a multifactorial process involving individual preferences, environment, mentoring, experiences, and opportunity. The RRC-EM is happy to play a part in this complex process.
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Emergency physicians (EPs) have long been de-facto providers of trauma resuscitation and critical care in academic and community hospital settings, and are significantly involved in out-of-hospital trauma care and trauma research. A one-year fellowship has been developed and implemented to provide advanced training in trauma resuscitation and critical care to EPs with a special interest in the field. This fellowship provides additional depth and breadth of training to prepare graduates for leadership roles in academic and specialized trauma centers. This is the first fellowship of its kind for EPs, and may serve as a model for fellowships at other institutions.