Executive summary of the CAEP 2014 Academic Symposium: How to make research succeed in your department

Abstract

The vision of the recently created Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) Academic Section is to promote high-quality emergency patient care by conducting world-leading education and research in emergency medicine. The Academic Section plans to achieve this goal by enhancing academic emergency medicine primarily at Canadian medical schools and teaching hospitals. It seeks to foster and develop education, research, and academic leadership amongst Canadian emergency physicians, residents, and students. In this light, the Academic Section began in 2013 to hold the annual Academic Symposia to highlight best practices and recommendations for the three core domains of governance and leadership, education scholarship, and research. Each year, members of three panels are asked to review the literature, survey and interview experts, achieve consensus, and present their recommendations at the Symposium (2013, Education Scholarship; 2014, Research; and 2015, Governance and Funding).Research is essential to medical advancement. As a relatively young specialty, emergency medicine is rapidly evolving to adapt to new diagnostic tools, the challenges of crowding in emergency departments, and the growing needs of emergency patients. There is significant variability in the infrastructure, support, and productivity of emergency medicine research programs across Canada. All Canadians benefit from an investigation of the means to improve research infrastructure, training programs, and funding opportunities. Such an analysis is essential to identify areas for improvement, which will support the expansion of emergency medicine research. To this end, physician-scientist leaders were gathered from across Canada to develop pragmatic recommendations on the improvement of emergency medicine research through a comprehensive analysis of current best practices, systematic literature reviews, stakeholder surveys, and expert interviews.

An Environmental Scan of Academic Emergency Medicine at the 17 Canadian Medical Schools: Why Does this Matter to Emergency Physicians?

“…The variability in infrastructure, support, and productivity of emergency medicine research programs across Canada was discussed at the 2014 CAEP Academic Symposium on Research, where recommendations were refined and published to improve research funding, resident research, and training for career researchers. [3][4][5][6] The importance of education and its development was addressed at the 2013 CAEP Academic Section Consensus Conference on Education Scholarship. Recommendations centered on improvements to teaching and learning, as well as the support and development of education scholars.…”

CAEP 2014 Academic symposium: “How to make research succeed in your department: How to fund your research program”

“…An overview of all three areas discussed can be found in the Executive Summary. 16 Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (FRCPC) and EM-trained members of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) were equally represented on the panel.…”

“…Recommendations for research contributors and producers, 16 including learners, faculty members without research training, young investigators, and mid-career and senior investigators.…”

CAEP 2015 Academic Symposium: Leadership within the emergency medicine academic community and beyond

“…Each working group was charged with presenting a symposium at a CAEP Annual Scientific Meeting and publishing their findings and recommendations. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] For CAEP 2015, the Leadership Working Group formed three panels on leadership, governance, and funding, to articulate the issues, structure recommendations, and plan interactive 1-hour symposia during the CAEP 2015 annual meeting. The purpose of the leadership panel was to describe the key elements of leadership and develop recommendations to strengthen leadership for academic activity in emergency medicine (EM).…”