After a successful inaugural year, there is a bright future for New York ACEP’s “Academy of Clinical Educators” or ACE program. The program consisted of a series of six lectures open to all New York ACEP members, as well as six corresponding workshops led by the expert faculty and attended by our cohort of 10 “ACEs”. These 10 “ACEs” who are junior emergency medicine (EM) faculty and were selected via a competitive application process, gained valuable information, advice and mentorship, and became part of an ongoing statewide community of clinical educators.
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
New York American College of Emergency Physicians
Mark Curato, DO FACEP
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine
Jacqueline Tran
MS-IV, Weill Cornell Medical College
The ACE Program Takes Off!
Emergency medicine, perhaps more than any other field, has many niches, offshoots and subspecialties. Furthermore, the body of knowledge is broad and the teaching and learning environment is entropic. In this ecosystem we all find our own nooks and crannies of excellence and thus we each have so much to learn from colleagues, some junior and some senior to us. This differs from most other specialties, with defined boundaries to their bodies of knowledge and a more linear, structured or hierarchical paradigm for teaching and learning. In short, we are more communal and egalitarian in our teaching and learning than any other specialty and we do well when we nurture this.
The Academy of Clinical Educators grew from the idea that junior faculty could benefit from the experience and generosity of some of the best clinical educators from across the nation (Table 1), that they could deploy what they’ve learned and share it in turn with others at their institutions and meanwhile also expand their professional network as a community of dedicated EM faculty across our state. The initial responses from the first cohort of ACEs has been overwhelmingly positive. The scholars appreciated both the content delivered and also the opportunity to expand on their personal network and share their perspectives with one another during the in-depth, post-lecture discussions (Table 2).
As the inaugural year of the ACE program comes to a close, the initial cohort now has a new network of friends and colleagues across New York with whom to collaborate. We look forward to the final lecture, open to all New York ACEP members, June 14th on “Scholarly Productivity” by Michael Gotlieb, MD RDMS FACEP of Rush University in Chicago and to welcoming our next cohort in the Fall.
