CDEM has grown significantly since its founding in 2007. It now represents over half of US medical schools' EM clerkships and provides various educational resources for members. Challenges include establishing CDEM's role within SAEM and addressing tensions between the organizations. The future includes further developing the curriculum, collaborating with other groups like CORD and EMRA, and establishing CDEM as the leader in undergraduate EM education.

1. Past, Present, and Future
David Manthey, MD
Nicholas Kman, MD
Doug Franzen, MD

3.  Describe the origins of CDEM
 Show the progress that has been made in the
past 8 years
 Illustrate the challenges to the growth and
success of CDEM
 Offer some thoughts on the future direction
of the organization
 Brainstorm and discuss new frontiers.

4. Phoenix 2010

5.  Clerkship Directors
 Medical Student Educators
 Residents interested in Medical Student
Education
 Established in March 2007
 Originally accepted by CORD
 Became the First SAEM Academy as of May
2008

6.  Venue for SAEM members with a specific
interest or expertise to join together to:
 Network
 Collaborate on educational initiatives
 Develop policy
 Perform collaborative research
 Provide faculty development
 Speak as a unified voice
 SAEM administrative support
 Separate Budget

7.  Membership
 May 2008 – 105 Founding Members
 April 2009 – 151 Members
 103 / 148 Residency Programs are represented
 4 international members
Sweden, Ireland, Australia, and Canada
 Clerkships
 46 of 130 US Medical Schools have mandatory EM
Clerkships
 46 more have elective rotation
 11 more have selective rotation

8.  SAEM
 Direct discussion with SAEM President
 Cherri Hobgood, MD – Board Liaison
 CORD
 Direct discussion with CORD President
 CORD Academic Assembly – CDEM Track
 EMRA
 Direct Discussion with EMRA BOD
 Liaison – Michelle Lin, MD
 ACEP
 Academic Affairs Committee Liaison
 Jonathan Fisher, MD
 AAMC
 John Prescott – AAMC Chief Academic Officer
 Robby Reynolds – AAMC MedEd Portal Director

9.  Website: www.saem.org/cdem

10.  EM Primer
 24 Chapters
 21 Authors
 96 pages
 Used by a majority
of members

11.  Newsletter

12.  CDEM Forum
 Educational repository
 PowerPoint lectures

13.  Listserv
 Membership list
 Directory

14.  Resources
 On line web based Self Study Modules
 Powerpoint lecture series
 DIEM clinical cases
 Simulation cases
 On line test

15.  Educational Offerings at SAEM
 Asked by SAEM BOD to submit topics and
collaborate with Program committee to develop
10 additional hours of educational sessions at
2010 Meeting
 CDEM Track at CORD Academic Assembly
 Will have a full 2.5 day educational track at the
2010 Academic Assembly

18.  Advance education of medical students
in emergency medicine.
 Serve as a unified voice for EM clerkship
directors and medical student educators.
 Provide a forum for EM clerkship
directors and medical student educators
to communicate, share ideas, and
generate solutions to common problems.
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19.  Foster undergraduate medical
education research.
 Advance professional development
and career satisfaction of medical
student educators.
 Develop relationships with other
organizations to promote medical
education.
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20.  CDEM has created and published:
National fourth year curriculum
Pediatric EM curriculum
EM Clerkship Primer
Digital Instruction in EM (DIEM)
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21.  CDEM has created and published:
 3rd
Year EM Curriculum
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22.  1/3 of the CDEM membership participated in
the CDEM Self Study Modules (free of charge
at www.cdemcurriculum.org).
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23.  Assessment tools:
 National EM M4 Exams (www.saemtests.org)
 Advanced Clinical Exam in EM that we
assisted the National Board of Medical
Examiners (NBME) in developing.
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24.  In 2006, only 30% of med schools required
exposure to EM.
 Now over 50% of US medical schools
require EM Clerkships during
undergraduate training.
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27.  Establish meaning of an academy within SAEM.
Trying to find a balance between being part of
SAEM but acting independently.
 Tension between SAEM and CDEM.
 Bringing understanding of our role (not just an
interest group) to SAEM. All core clerkships
(IM, Surgery, etc) have an organization
representing UME in their field (similar to how
CORD represents GME in EM.

28.  Curriculum development. Viewed as the voice
of EM UME.
 Maturation of the CDEM track at SAEM allowing
for personal and professional growth of our
members
 Newsletter
 Collaboration. There were significant
differences of opinion between SAEM and CORD
following the official separation.

29.  Align itself more closely with CORD likely as
part of them. The potential to have two CDEM
UME folks on the CORD board is a great first
step.
 Continue to lead and develop the educational
arm of SAEM, continue to strengthen alliance
with CORD
 To establish CDEM as the voice of
undergraduate medical education in emergency
medicine and bring us to a seat at the table at
AAMC.

30.  CORD membership now gets a Clerkship
Director as a Member.
 In May, we had 144 current members on the
website.
 At ACEP, had 173 members on the
community.
 As of today, we have 143 current members
on the website.
 There are more than 57 Clerkships that the
CD is not represented!
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31.  @CDEMFaculty
 @CDEMStudents
 #FOAMed
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32.  The CDEMCurriculum.org Editorial Board
- Kim Askew
- Keme Carter
- Rahul Patwari
- Stacey Poznanski
- Matthew Tews
 http://www.emclerkship.org/
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33.  www.cdemcurriculum.org
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35.  EMRA/SAEM/CDEM 3 Minute Medical Student
Presentation Video
 ACEP/EMRA/SAEM/CDEM Academic
Departments in EM Initiative
 FOAMed
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36.  Revision of CDEMcurriculum.org
 Currently in progress
 Expanded list of topics
 More pictures, videos
 Collaboration with EMRA
 More medical student videos
 Student advising
 WJEM supplement
 Continued input into SLOE

37.  Platform for educators to share ideas
 Sustainable
 WJEM and/or other venues
 Consensus conference on student evaluations
 (Improved) Social Media presence?
 Especially as new platforms arise…

38.  Maintaining clerkship directory
 Turnover
 New clerkships
 New clerkship sites
 Membership
 Recruiting residency leadership as members
 Consumers of our student product
 Retaining members / institutional memory

39.  Proximity of Meetings
 CDEM’s place in the academic terrain:
 Pros and Cons

40.  Committees:
 Awards: Tom Morrisey
 Communications: Mike Van Meter
 CORD/Education Program Committee: Kathy
Hiller and Paul Ko
 Twitter: Rob Rogers
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41.  Testing/Assessment: Emily Miller and Corey
Heitz
 NBME Task Force: Dave Wald
 ACE: Dave Wald
 SLOE Task Force: Sarah Ronin Bentle
 SAEM Program Committee: Luan Lawson and
Laurie Thibodeau
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42. • We have a robust track of programming at the
CORD Academic Assembly.
• Did you know that since the development of the
CDEM track at CORD in 2009, we have had 98
separate talks with over 200 CDEM speakers?
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43.  “Angie’s list” of educational products?
 Reviews of books, software, websites?
 Idea was a result of being asked to “sponsor”
various education related products
 FOAM site for the educator?
 remediation, curriculum development, etc
 Your ideas?