The Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD) is a scientific and educational organization. The purposes of CORD are:

To improve the quality of emergency medical care.
To establish and maintain high standards of excellence in emergency medicine training programs.
To enhance the quality of instruction in emergency medicine training programs.
To improve the communications between the faculty of emergency medicine training programs.

Other CORD listservs of interest include that for Chief Residents (crf@lists.cordem.org), medical students (medstudents@lists.saem.org), and Residency Coordinators and Secretaries (emarc@lists.cordem.org). Individuals wishing to subscribe should send an email to the CORD office at cord@cordem.org.

Of particular interest to the Program Director:

Catalog of Emergency Medicine Residencies: Developed to provide detailed information on each of the Emergency Medicine residencies, one can also jump directly to a program's website via hypertext linkage. This site is identical to that of SAEM.
Residency Vacancy Service: Established to assist residency programs and prospective Emergency Medicine residents by listing unexpected or additional openings in residency programs. This site is identical to that of SAEM.
Standard Letter of Recommendation (SLOR): Developed in an attempt to more objectively evaluate and recommend residency candidates. Guidelines for completion of the letter are found, as are various formattings of downloadable documents.
Newsletter and Newsletter Archive: A bimonthly publication with topical issues for Program Directors.
Additional information concerning upcoming meetings, educational products, publications, and grants and awards.