Welcome to the CORD AA 2011 planning wiki. Our goal is to use this wiki to develop the structure and content of the AA, and to include all supporting documents in one place. We welcome ongoing comments and feedback. To get the ball rolling, there is a document above which includes a number of proposed Session ideas for 2011. As well, to the right are folders for each Track, with the Track Chairs listed. Please feel free to propose or comment on Session ideas, and to contact the appropriate Track Chairs directly if you are interested in leading a session.

Over the next 6 weeks, we will be posting minutes from the CORD Program Committee meeting in Orlando, as well as Evaluation Forms and a Standard Operating Procedure Manual for CORD AA which will include a timeline for the year.

There are a few topics up for discussion currently, and we are seeking feedback:
1. Do we want vendors at CORD AA (especially for products/equipment such as Simulation which may be a challenge to see demonstrated otherwise)?
2. The organization of the CORD AA 2010 included 3 hour Special Interest Tracks in the afternoons. Is this the best organizational structure/timing for these sessions, or could we better optimize attendance
for the Special Interest Sessions?
3. Keynote Speaker-is it better to time it before lunch (11:00 am) or during lunch? Any interest in more than one Keynote Speaker?
4. Other thoughts on CORD AA 2010, or ideas for 2011?

We look forward to an exciting Academic Assembly in San Diego in 2011, and as always, the success of CORD AA continues to be a reflection of the tremendous energy and enthusiasm of its members-many thanks!

Hi. I read with interest the ideas for 2011 (thanks Elise!). Here are my thoughts. What seems to jump off the page to me about a lot of these ideas is their focus around technology (facebook, twitter, social media, googling, virtual learning software, ERAS to website, Doug Char's commentary about training and our focus on technology/cutting edge vs basic real world). I am wondering if we have thought about a theme about technology as our future (for good or bad?) came up?

Also- the topics from the list which I thought might fall into BP (versus other tracks) were the following. I want to make sure we don't have significant overlap. other track leaders. .please feel free to lay claim!
1. Developing/writing a business plan
2. Inheriting/fixing the broken problem (once I find out what is means!)
3. Incentivizing/motivating residents
4. Resident wellness
5. Diveristy curriculum
6. Social media and its place in residency
7. Four year programs
8. Electives (maybe new PD)
9. Virtual learning software
10. ERAS- the new website (with EMARC)
11. PD longevity (maybe in new PD)
12. How to choose residents (maybe in new PD)
13. What do you want to fix about your program (maybe a session where programs can submit issues ahead of ?)

I like the theme of technology...eg technology "frenemy or not". I have uploaded a power point from Tobi Tanzer that talks about some of the newer challenges of social networking, privacy and boundaries. I am wondering if the cord planning site could be a public site for a little bit and advertised on cord listserve to mine for ideas. The 2010 one is a public one at http://cordaaplanning.pbworks.com/ which can serve as a good repository for historical context

I think resident wellness and diversity are always on the minds of PDs these days. I think these are great ideas for BP as well. I am happy to get a series of speakers together for these topics if people think that is a good thing

Thanks Chris! I will be in touch as soon as the topics are finalized.

I think a lot of good ideas have been proposed. I just wanted to quickly comment on 2 and then also comment on a session that I thought went well this year and potentially can be expaned.
1.) I like Doug Char's idea of "preparing residents for the 'real world' vs training mandates". With the push for ultrasound are we getting away from teaching procedures by landmarks and what happens if your ultrasound breaks down. I like the concept of looking at what we are teaching and expected to teach and comparing that to what our residents really will need when they start their new jobs.
2.) Resident wellness I think is always a hot topic and I would be happy to help with this if it ends up being one of the chosen sessions. The real question is defining wellness and how do you balance that with ensuring that you are providing your residents with the best training to make them the best clinicians possible and the decreasing exposure to patients with shortened duty hours.
3.) I thought the session on resident remediation went well this year. Maybe that could be expanded to include the aftermath of remediation or of the firing of a resident and how do you pick up the pieces. How do you maintain confidentiality while still keeping your other residents at ease that they aren't they next ones to get into trouble.
Just some thoughts.

Just had my internal GME review and after all the trees I killed I'm still not convinced that what we are doing in any way makes for better clinicians - just paper pushers. Two ideas 1) real word vs ivory tower what are we really teaching our resdints and are we sending the worng message in terms of dependence on high tech medicine, 2) Seems like most of the medical student applicants this year wanted to know if my program sponsors or has "International EM". It would be fun to talk as a group about what others are doing to build/generate international EM ties. Should CORD as the teaching/education group be involved in these efforts? If a program wants to set up a interntional elective or network with someplace that already has a rotation set up how can we do this and what are the hidden costs, hurdles (GME, legal, financial) that must be considered. Could look at nuts and bolts of a rotation or more as a policy issue for CORD

Although we had a session on International Emergency Medicine a few years back at CORD, I think that the previous post brings up a lot of good points on GME funding, costs, security, sustainability, etc. We have been lucky enough to put together two multi-institutional ventures in Liberia and Ethiopia over the past two years - both governments that are struggling to redefine and redevelop their graduate medical education infrastructure. I just did a lecture in Liberia where they were very excited to learn about the core competencies (they have not had any evaluative processes in their GME programs)! Knowing that there are many other institutions in our collective that have similar programs, might we organize a session that just has a clearinghouse of ideas/exchange of ideas/programatic details and at the end - consider if there would be interested parties in partnering in projects that involve education/International Health/GME development?

Just a quick hello-a few people have emailed me, and I'm out of the country with extremely limited email access. I'm back on 4/7, and promise to get back to everyone ASAP. Thanks for the questions/comments!
Elise

one suggestion from Felix and I...maybe one session on the medical marriage with invites to the significant others who go to the conference? One possiblitiy is to team teach with a CORD member and their spouse...

I like that idea Eric, important topic that we don't often talk about. Jen Cassaletto and I co-wrote a white paper on that topic if it would be helpful and I like the concept of an interactive session..let me know if I can help. Do we know how many spouses typically attend?

Hi Track Leaders,

Tentative date and time for the AA Planning Committee meeting is Friday, June 4th @ 1500-1600 at SAEM in Phoenix (pending final confirmation). We were hoping to address a few bookkeeping items in the next couple of weeks, in anticipation of the meeting.

1. NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: Please provide an estimated number of participants at each of your sessions this year. Ballpark numbers are fine.

2. LIST OF PRESENTERS: Please go through the 2010 program and make sure that all presenters, panel participants, and basically anyone with “podium time” is identified, so we can get them a formal letter of thanks from CORD for their P&T portfolio.

3. SOP MANUAL: We want to have a final draft of this manual ready for review by the CORD Board by May 15th, so it can be approved at the CORD business meeting at SAEM. Within the manual (pp 13-21) are short SECTIONS FOR EACH TRACK asking you to comment on successes, pitfalls and ideas for the future. Please take a look and add your insights to the wisdom of the group.

4. GRID: A proposed grid for the 3 day conference plus pre-day should be posted on the Wiki in the next day or two. Please take a look at the new arrangement of tracks and make comments.

Thanks all. See you in Phoenix,
PB

The proposed grid for CORD AA 2011 is posted above. Comments and feedback are encouraged-
Elise

The grid looks good from the New PD standpoint (we're a pretty simple one-day affair).

Along the global health front. We have committed to providing our residents international experiences during their elective time. During interviews this year, we found that many applicants were very interested in the "buzz topic" of global health. Multi-institutional ventures seem to be a sustainable model for allowing residents a high-impact international elective. We also have three or four sites developed for resident placement. It may be interesting to have a short session on international health electives (appropriateness, safety, GME funding, etc). This could be helpful for programs that do not have a built in infrastructure for residents interested in global health to provide a forum for collaboration. Just a thought. If interested, I would be happy to help out.

Grid looks fine for Best Practices

Track looks good for CDEM

Have the small groups (tracks) began to talk about content yet?

CDEM has not worked on content yet. We should begin that process in the next 2 weeks.

In looking at the grid, I am not sure about having the keynote address at the same time as lunch. I think it worked very well this past year with the keynote at 11:00 and lunch at 12:00. Perhaps this depends on who the keynote speaker will be in 2011.

Chris- I was waiting until the grid was finalilzed so I know how much time we have per session.

Just wanted to throw out another idea. This would fit well with the previous year's remediation session. It would be good to have a session again on given feedback and different options for feedback.

Pat & Elise,

I’ve discussed a concept with several of the mentors and come up with this proposal:

Merc at Cord: Educational Scholarship from your daily work


A recent article in AEM noted that academic emergency medicine could benefit from broadening how scholarship is defined to include teaching, integration and application of knowledge and discovery of new knowledge. Attention and efforts can target enhancing faculty members’ scholarly teaching and educational scholarship. The objectives of this workshop are that participants will 1) understand the distinctions among teaching effectiveness, excellence, and scholarly productivity in their educational activities and 2) have an action plan of how to improve his or her scholarship.

Format:
Following a brief lecture discussion of key concepts related to educational effectiveness, excellence, scholarly work, and scholarship, participants will work in small groups to apply the concepts to their own teaching and education activities.
Then the groups will divide into participants areas of focus and work on individual and group action plans to improve educational scholarship: learner assessment, program evaluation, peer assessment of teaching, qualitative methods, survey design, assessment of technology based educational outcomes, educational research 101, learner assessment in simulation, learner assessment in the clinical arena. Each of the groups will be led by an expert in educational research (MERC at CORD mentor).

There are lots of other ideas floating around and I’m working on a second proposal. Let me know what you think……………..

Thanks,
Jeff

CORD AA Planning Committee Members:

Thanks to all of the Track Chairs and Program Committee members for your active input and degree of preparation at the PC meeting last month in Phoenix. CORD AA 2011 is well on its way to being the biggest and best CORD AA yet.

The minutes for the PC meeting in Phoenix have been posted to the Wiki. Please take a look at the minutes for accuracy or if you were not able to attend.

The Standard Operations Procedure Manual (SOPM) for CORD AA has also been posted. The SOPM is intended to be an active document with which to record the ongoing history of CORD AA. It also includes a planning timeline for the year, a finance policy outlining speaker reimbursement and limitations, and a link to authorship guidelines for scholarly activity.

In addition to the items outlined in the PC minutes, we’d like to encourage Track Chairs to use their speakers more than once when appropriate (potentially crossing Track lines), and to consider having the Keynote Speaker participate at other sessions. Felix has also suggested that a resident be included on panels whenever appropriate, to add a different perspective to the discussion and as a mentorship opportunity for academically motivated residents.

Please upload session topics to the Wiki as soon as possible. If you have any difficulties with the Wiki, please contact us, and we are happy to do the uploading if you email us the documents. Our goal is to have a fully fleshed-out grid with session topics and speakers by the end of July, with a Track Chair conference call shortly before this. Again, thank you for your enthusiasm and tremendous creative energy. This is truly a conference of collaboration and collective input.

Regards,
Pat Brunett
Elise Lovell

Hi all,

The minutes from the July 22nd conference call are now posted on the WIKI. Thanks to all who were able to join in the call, and for all your hard work so far. Please take a look and check for accuracy or if you were not able to attend.

Track Chairs, please continue to post conference content to the grid, and other discussion or comments to this comment section.

There will be a Program Committee meeting (pending confirmation of room availability) on Tuesday, September 28th at 5 PM at ACEP Las Vegas, immediately following the CORD General Meeting. Hope to see you all there.

Regards,
Pat Brunett
Elise Lovell

ICRE may be a good group to connect CORD with There is some good stuff at http://icreblog.royalcollege.ca/ It may serve as a model to use web 2.0. to promote conference (eg blog, with facebook link and twitter feeds). Felix

Did the issue of the overlap session on asynchronous learning between Best Practice and Navigating ever get sorted out? It would seem reasonable to drop the Nav Session snce it's the last day and also going to overlap considerably with the Best Practice session earlier in the conf. Doug

Upcoming CORD AA deadlines:

October 31: Brochure finished and online (including finalized session titles, speakers, narratives), Grid completed, Facebook page up and running, registration form online, social chairs insider’s guide completed. Track Chairs please provide catchy titles and 2-3 sentence descriptive narratives for each session to help the marketability of each session and the conference overall. These brief “hooks” will appear under the session titles in the brochure.

First week of December: PC conference call, exact date TBD.

December 7: Research Forum submission deadline, both for SAEM and CORD. Deadline for abstracts being submitted to CORD may be extended to December 9.

February 14: Deadline for all session leaders to submit electronic handouts to Barb Mulder for posting on the CORD website. There will be no paper handouts.


When communicating with your session leaders, please encourage them to:
--Provide a product/deliverable whenever appropriate. Please stress the importance of submitting handouts by 2/14.
--Consider sending out pertinent background information/surveys/links to articles, etc before March-we can capture the participants for each session with the new registration form and send out targeted emails.
--Contact Terry Kowalenko (terryk@med.umich.edu) or John Burton (jhburton@carilionclinic.org) for suggestions on consensus session manuscript guidelines.

Thank you for all of your hard work! CORD AA continues to grow and improve with your help. Feedback and comments are always welcome-

Pat and Elise