Chair: Shawn London, MD
Vice-Chair: TBD at Meeting on 3/29/26
Board Liaison: Arlene Chung, MD
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Committee Goals and Objectives for 2025-2026
Chair: Pam Dyne
Vice Chair/Chair elect: Shawn London
Academic Assembly Didactics
- Facilitate collaboration between committee members to develop didactic submissions, encouraging proposals that represent multiple programs and/or multi-generational perspectives;
- Request a wellbeing track or several hour block dedicated to wellbeing content curated by our content area experts
Stop the Stigma Campaign/National Physician Suicide Awareness Day (StoptheStigmaEM is a month-long campaign (October) in which different EM organizations participate)
- CORD’s participation has historically been a CORD Connects, developed by the Wellbeing Committee.
Plan for 2025:
- Mental health disclosures, interface w state and FSMB, implications for hospital credentialing and disability insurance
National Physician Suicide Awareness Day (Sept 17)
- Ensure email w link to NPSAday.org w ideas for trinkets to give out (tea lights, etc) to shine a light on the idea, example blog, update content on the CORD website for data
CORD Wellbeing Mini-Fellowship (Nathan Olson and Elaine Josephson, co-directors for 2025-2026)
- Idea for submission to AA as showcase of the projects OR have them all in the innovations section but separated process (satellite poster session)
- Certificate of graduation at the awards ceremony if they complete expectations
Just-in-time tool kits: (Purposes of these tool kits is informational but also as peer support for program leadership.)
- Lead: SueLin Lett Hilbert
- Finish those in progress
- Publish those completed as White Papers for submission to AEME&T vs JetEM vs other
Scholarship
- Idea: Survey of PDs re residents/faculty who’ve accessed mental health resources, status of their mental health resources in their program and whether its opt out or not, and impact on state medical boards, including surveying the state medical boards on what questions are asked on their state verification of training forms and hospital credentialing forms.
Explore opportunities for collaboration with SAEM Wellbeing Committee