Big Ideas. Practical Tools. Live Learning for Emergency Medicine Educators.
CORD’s education webinar series brings timely, practical, and high-impact topics directly to emergency medicine educators, residency leaders, faculty, residents, and the broader GME community. Join us live for expert-led sessions focused on real challenges, creative solutions, and ready-to-use strategies for today’s training programs.
Each webinar will be presented live, recorded, and made available in CORD’s educational library for future viewing. Sessions are open to both CORD members and non-members, making it easy for colleagues across programs and institutions to learn, connect, and bring new ideas back to their teams.
CME credit will be offered for eligible live sessions, with enduring CME available for recorded sessions when applicable.
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Who Should Attend?
These webinars are designed for emergency medicine residency leaders, program directors, associate and assistant program directors, clerkship directors, faculty, fellows, residents, medical educators, and anyone interested in strengthening emergency medicine education.
Why Attend?
Join live to ask questions, hear directly from presenters, and connect with timely ideas from across the CORD community. Can’t attend live? Recorded sessions will be available through CORD’s educational library so you can watch, share, and revisit the content when it works for your schedule.
Registration
Registration for this series is included as a complimentary benefit of CORD membership. CORD members may attend all sessions at no cost. Non-members are welcome to participate and may register for individual sessions for a fee of $40 per session.
Register Here For Upcoming Monthly WebinarsAdditional webinar dates and registration details will be added as sessions open. Check back often for the latest CORD education lineup.
Upcoming Webinars:
Wednesday, July 29 | 1:00 PM CT
Speakers: Anjeza Cipi, Donald Byars
How can programs encourage residents to publish without adding more burden to faculty? This session introduces a creative token-based incentive system that helps residents build their own CME fund through scholarly activity. Attendees will learn how one program designed, launched, and measured an easy-to-adapt model that rewards publication, supports faculty collaboration, and gives residents a practical reason to keep scholarly work moving.
Friday, August 7 | 12:00 PM CT
Speaker: Joseph Kennedy
Back-up call systems can make or break a program’s ability to support safe staffing, duty hour compliance, resident professionalism, and learner well-being. This webinar will share practical strategies for smaller programs, including national survey findings and real examples from five programs. Attendees will leave with ideas they can adapt to strengthen reliability, fairness, and support within their own scheduling systems.
Wednesday, August 19 | 12:00 PM CT
Speakers: Aubrey Bethel-Schmitz, Ryan Adkins, Eva Wilson
Simulation does not need a luxury budget to deliver high-value procedural training. This session will show educators how to create realistic, low-cost task trainers for lower-acuity procedures such as abscess drainage, auricular hematomas, felons, fishhook removal, and ingrown toenail management. Attendees will gain practical, budget-friendly ideas to expand procedural learning in simulation and didactics.
September | Exact date and time coming soon
Speakers: Dalia Owda, Doreen Agboh
Publishing during residency can feel overwhelming, but the right structure can turn a daunting process into a doable one. This session will walk residents through the research-to-publication pathway, from developing an idea to navigating IRB approval, writing effectively, presenting findings, and submitting for publication. Practical templates, real-world examples, and time-saving tools will help residents move scholarly projects from “someday” to submitted.
Thursday, October 29 | 1:00 PM CT
Speakers: Avery Clark, Colleen Laurence
Health equity education works best when it includes the voices and perspectives of patients and affected communities. This webinar will share meaningful ways to integrate health equity, advocacy, and lived experience into recurring resident conference curricula. Attendees will hear examples from an urban academic emergency medicine residency and leave with practical ideas for bringing deeper reflection, relevance, and impact to health equity education.
October | Exact date and time coming soon
Speakers: Joshua Ginsburg, Avirale Sharma, Rebecca Kernen
AI tools are changing how educators teach, learn, and conduct scholarship. This interactive workshop will introduce NotebookLM, a free Google tool that helps users work directly with uploaded sources to generate summaries, study guides, questions, literature themes, and more. Attendees will see how NotebookLM can support teaching, learning, and scholarship while also comparing when to use NotebookLM versus tools like ChatGPT.
Thursday, November 5 | 11:00 AM CT
Speakers: Robert Tennill, James Waymack, Richard Selinfreund
Step into the next wave of emergency medicine training with AI-simulated patient avatars. This session will demonstrate how generative AI can create realistic patient encounters, provide sentiment-reactive feedback, and help faculty assess diagnostic reasoning, communication, empathy, and handoff performance. Attendees will see live demonstrations and explore how these tools can fit into residency training.
Topics Confirmed. Dates Coming Soon.
More CORD education webinars are taking shape, with additional dates and registration details coming soon. Watch for upcoming sessions on research curriculum development, conflict management, direct observation, resident performance scorecards, medical errors, reproductive health education, grant writing, social determinants of health, support for underrepresented students, low-cost simulation, gamified learning, board preparation, AI and VR for bias training, alumni success, faculty time management, and resident-driven faculty evaluation.
Building Blocks of Scholarship: Creating a Research Curriculum for EM Residents | Ridhima Ghei, Suchismita Datta
From PD to Referee: Navigating Conflicts Between Faculty and Residents While Keeping the Ball Rolling | Amy Stubbs, Emily Hillman, Kaitlyn Finneran
Revisiting Direct Observation: Pearls and Pitfalls of Implementing Sdots | Caroline Astemborski, Emily Craft
Pulse Check: Developing a Scorecard to Track EM Resident Clinical Performance | Daniel Bernard
Making the Most of Medical Errors – How We Can Help Our Residents Learn and Grow | Juhi Varshney, Linda Regan
Reimagining Reproductive Health Education in Emergency Medicine: A Resident-Driven Academic Track for Advocacy, Systems Innovation and Clinical Impact | Katherine Allder, Gianna Petrone
Grant Writing 101 | Lauren Willoughby
Beyond the Symptoms: Team-Based Learning for Social Determinants of Health in Emergency Medicine Training | Layla Abubshait
Opening the Door: Supporting Underrepresented Medical Students toward Careers in Academic Emergency Medicine | Manuel Montano, Grace Lambert, Renee King
No Sim Left Behind: Innovative, Low-Cost Solutions for High-Acuity Learning | Natalie Diers, Stephanie Cohen, Drake Dixon
Power-Ups and Procedures: Using Gamified Simulation to Level up Learning | Natalie Diers, Stephanie Cohen, Shayne Gue
Understanding the Decline in ABEM QE Pass Rates and What It Means for EM Residency Education | Neelou Weeker. Dr. Ryan Coughlin and Dr. Nick Srica
Board Prep that Works: Practical Strategies for Residency Programs | Nikki Binz, Collyn Murray
Smart Tech for Safe Dialogue: Using AI and VR to Address Microaggressions and Bias in Clinical Training | Nur-Ain Nadir, Nathan Stuempfig
Graduated, Not Forgotten: Practical Strategies to Guide Alumni Success | Robert Barnes, Karina Reyner, Jonathan Brewer
Faculty in the Fast Lane: A Time Management Toolkit for Medical Educators | Shayne Gue, Abigail Alorda, Geoffrey Comp
Faculty Evaluation Committee: A Resident Driven Flipped CCC | Timothy Fortuna, Kathleen Morrisroe, Madison Greco