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The mission statement of the Council of Residency Directors of Emergency Medicine’s (CORD’s) is to “Lead the advancement of emergency medicine education.” Toward that end, CORD created the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine CDEM/CORD Special Issue in Educational Research & Practice (Special Issue) in 2015. The Special Issue has been recognized by PubMed since its […]

Please review the CDEM/CORD Special Issue in Educational Research and Practice Submission Guidelines below or visit, http://westjem.com/cdem-cord-submission-guidelines. The CDEM/CORD WestJEM Special Issue in Educational Research & Practice strives to publish educational scholarship that supports emergency medicine clinical educators in their mission to promote and provide a culture of education for medical students, residents, fellows and faculty. […]

Letter from CORD Guest Editor Jeffrey N. Love, MD, MHPE, MSc Consistent with CORD’s mission to “Lead the advancement of emergency medicine education”, the objective of this opportunity is to provide a peer-review learning experience that will intentionally foster peer-review skills.  The mentored peer-review program was initially offered in 2020 as an innovation to education […]

Mentored Peer-Reviewed: Gold Standard Award Winners 2020 UCLA-Harbor View: Stephen Villa/Rebecca Bavolek University of Kansas: Elspeth Pearce/Kaitlin Dougherty/Brad Barth University of North Carolina: Lauren Querin/Nikki Binz University of Vermont: Tabitha Ford/Richard Bounds University of Pittsburg: Lauren Trembley/Adam Janicki/Michelle Dorfsman University of Washington: Ashley Amick/Caitlin Schrepel/Bjorn Watsjold/Johua Jauregui/Jon Ilgen UMMC-Baystate: Margarite Goodrich/Ryan Clark/Ronnie Ren/Patrick Felton/Lucienne Lutfy-Clayton […]

Past WestJEM CDEM/CORD Special Issue in Educational Research & Practice   Volume XXIV, Number 1, January 2023 Volume XXIII, Number 1, January 2022 Volume XXII, Number 1, January 2021  Volume XXI, Number 1, January 2020 Volume XX, Number 1, January, 2019 Volume XIX, Number 1, January, 2018 Volume XVIII, Number 1, January 2017 Volume XVII, […]

Patient Experience Task Force Article Library General Patient Satisfaction Deshpande, Satish P., and Jim DeMello. “An Empirical Investigation of Factors Influencing Career Satisfaction of Primary Care Physicians.” The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 23, no. 6 (2010): 762–69. Deshpande, Satish P., and Sagar S. Deshpande. “Career Satisfaction of Surgical Specialties.” Annals of Surgery 253, […]

Author: Linda L. Herman, MD May allow learners to read handout on patient satisfaction before participating in the simulation.   Phase 1 – Initial Interview Patient is conversant, awake, comfortable. Lying on the cart.  Husband and teenage daughter are present. 106/78 – 92 – 16- 98.6   History: Patient states that she has had a cold for a […]

Remediation Consults Information on requesting remediation consults. Request a Consult Remediation Contracts View and download example remediation contracts including two new standardized remediation documents. Learn More Remediation Literature View published (or pre-published) literature and guides that relate to remediation. Learn More Milestones Information on the EM Milestones. Learn More Medical Knowledge View resources for medical […]

This page lists general published or pre-published literature and guides that relate to remediation.  Overview of Remediation and LanguageWestJEM Article by Members of the RTF Prevalence and Success of Remediation in EMWestJEM Article by Members of the RTF Problem Resident Guide, A Milestone Based Overview for RemediationInternal Emergency Medicine Article by Members of the RTF […]

The CORD Remediation Task Force has developed materials related to resident interpersonal and communication skills (ICS). These skills sit at the heart of Emergency Medicine, and deficiencies here are grave and can be career threatening for residents and attending physicians alike. This page catalogs important information related to ICS. Remediation Plans by Milestone Milestone 22 […]