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The Vocal CORD | Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine - Health
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Meet the CORD Board: Daniel Egan, MD – The Vocal CORD
We are excited to introduce the dedicated individuals who form the backbone of our organization. Each month, we will spotlight different board members, offering insights into their backgrounds, interests, and unique perspectives. Through these introductions, we hope you will appreciate the expertise and vision driving CORD’s mission forward. Stay tuned to get to know the…
Meet the CORD Board: Julia Ruggieri, MD – The Vocal CORD
We are excited to introduce the dedicated individuals who form the backbone of our organization. Each month, we will spotlight different board members, offering insights into their backgrounds, interests, and unique perspectives. Through these introductions, we hope you will appreciate the expertise and vision driving CORD’s mission forward. Stay tuned to get to know the…
Meet the CORD Board: Alexis Pelletier-Bui, MD – The Vocal CORD
We are excited to introduce the dedicated individuals who form the backbone of our organization. Each month, we will spotlight a different board member, offering insights into their backgrounds, interests, and unique perspectives. Through these introductions, we hope you will appreciate the expertise and vision driving CORD's mission forward. Stay tuned to get to know…
Reflecting on the CORD Academic Assembly: A Journey of Professional and Personal Growth – The Vocal CORD
As I reviewed my notes from the CORD Academic Assembly, I am reminded of the initial excitement I had back in August of 2023 as a brand-new Program Manager. I applied for the CORD scholarship out of a strong desire to gain understanding of my new role as an emergency medicine residency program coordinator. In…
Get New Resources to Educate Patients About COVID-19 Treatments – The Vocal CORD
We have new resources to help you speak with your patients about COVID-19 treatments. These free print and digital materials are available for ACEP members to use to help educate patients about: Who is at increased risk for severe illness from COVID The availability of COVID treatments The importance of getting treated early These resources…
Happy New Year? – The Vocal CORD
The two weeks spanning the winter holidays and leading into the new year are a glorious time. Not only because of the holiday festivities (family, friends, gift-giving, gorging on fudge and pecan brittle, popping champagne) but also because we finally get a break from the interview season. The last few months of frenetic activity all…
How…do we *do* this? Virtual Interview Tips for Everyone – The Vocal CORD
It’s happening! The virtual recruitment season has started! This year’s virtual twist adds tension to this already stressful (but exciting) time. Based on experience and guidance with the earlier-timed virtual fellowship interviews this year, we wanted to offer some advice to applicants and interviewers alike on how to optimize the virtual interview experience. What we can say for sure:…
Jubilee! – The Vocal CORD
In honor of Juneteenth, this month's ASC-EM contribution to the Vocal Cord will simply highlight resources you can point your students toward to find grants and scholarships for away rotations aimed at students from groups traditionally underrepresented in medicine (UiM, URiM, URM) The Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine have long maintained a database that can…
The EM Applicant Preference/Program Signaling Guide is now Available! – The Vocal CORD
The EM Applicant/Advisor Supplemental Guide to Preference/Program Signaling (PS) is now available on the CORD website! This guide is meant to serve as a complement to (not a substitute for) the AAMC Supplemental ERAS Application Guide. We recommend reading the AAMC guide first to review the mechanics on how to submit signals via the ERAS Supplemental Application. Further guidance on nuances within emergency medicine, as well…
A Path Forward–practical consensus on 2021-2022 EM advising – The Vocal CORD
As the issue of--and complications surrounding--away rotations is the foremost question on the minds of emergency medicine advisers and their advisees, the Advising Students Committee in Emergency Medicine (ASC-EM) has chosen to use this space to reproduce the recently released consensus statement signed by AAEM, AAEM-RSA, ACOEP, ACOEP-RSA, ACEP, CDEM, CORD, EMRA, SAEM and RAMS.…
Dis CORD? Pandemic Advising–Round 2 – The Vocal CORD
On January 25, 2021, the Coalition for Physician Accountability, an organization whose members include the American Medical Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, the American Osteopathic Association, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education—and a host of other national oversight organizations—released updated recommendations on away rotations that will mainly…
Tokens! A Quick Guide to EM Preference Signaling – The Vocal CORD
Image by Mohamed Hassan Knowing our audience of advisors well, we here at ASC-EM won’t bother hunting for citations to adorn this sentence: We are all suffering from burnout of historic proportions. Whatever one’s politics, beliefs, position and physical capacity, the last two and a half years have been hard in a way that might…
Survey Says… – The Vocal CORD
The 2020-21 match season delivered an unprecedented level of uncertainty to students and the faculty advising them. As members of the CORD Advising Students Committee in Emergency Medicine (ASC-EM), we developed and sent out a small survey on the recently finished 2020-2021 advising season. We are still processing the data, but thought it was important to…
The Times, They are a-Changing… – The Vocal CORD
In our day-to-day grind, it becomes easy to see medicine as a static practice. Sure, when we think about it, we realize our leech jars are now empty, but it is harder to see the daily small shifts in care, based on one new study or another that showed us a better path. What I do…
The EM Interview Season: Pandemic Edition – The Vocal CORD
As the interview season approaches, both applicants and programs face a new reality—the virtual interview. Thankfully, these should be more meaningful than the solo-recorded Standard Video Interview that fell out of favor last year, but the prospect of the virtual interview season still raises questions for all parties involved. What changes in an interview season…