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Thursday, October 12, 2017
In This Issue
CONFERENCE
#CAEP18 Plenary Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Kline, May 30

CAEP is excited to welcome Dr. Jeffrey Kline to the CAEP 2018 conference 
in  Calgary. Dr. Kline will be presenting the closing plenary on Wednesday, May 30.
 
Dr. Jeffrey Kline received his MD from the Medical College of Virginia, and then did an emergency medicine residency followed by a research fellowship the Carolinas Medical Center. He now serves as Vice Chair of Research in emergency medicine and a professor of physiology at Indiana University School of Medicine. He is the present Editor In Chief of Academic Emergency Medicine . His research interest focuses on blood clots, the people who have them, and the people who diagnose and treat them.


This Week's Old Doc: Ken Buchanan
   

For details, and to view the Old Docs gallery, visit the  conference website .

CONNECTING
CJEM: Deputy Editor & Assistant Deputy Editor Employment Opportunities

CJEM is seeking applications from CAEP members for the positions of CJEM Deputy Editor and Assistant Deputy Editor to assist the CJEM Editor-in-Chief. Preference will be given to those with editorial experience. 

More information about these positions is available here. The deadline to apply is Friday, October 27.

Interested candidates should send their letter of interest and CV to Teri-Leigh Armstrong
( admin@caep.ca ). 

Choosing Wisely Canada (CWC): Implementation Toolkits



Toolkits are now available on the CWC website. T hey are "how-to" guides d esigned by clinicians who have implemented the CWC's recommendations.  Some of the toolkits  include: 



View all the toolkits here.

EDUCATION
CPD: Dreaming of SUN, Sand and CME?


RESEARCH
Abstract Awards

ADVOCACY
Member in the News: Michael Ertel

Dr. Michael Ertel speaks to Castanet about the "Better Together" campaign, raising funds to build JoeAnna's House to ensure Kelowna General Hospital patients' families have affordable accommodation.

"'It's no longer the case that patients and children requiring advanced care are travelling to Vancouver, Calgary or Victoria,' said Dr. Michael Ertel, an Emergency Department physician at KGH.

'As the leading referral hospital for over 750,000 residents in the southern interior, at any given time, one in four beds at KGH is occupied by a patient from outside the Central Okanagan.'"

Read about the campaign here.
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CAEP in the News

An article in the Irish Examiner celebrates 50 years of emergency medicine in Ireland and around the world:

"The forefathers of our specialty of emergency medicine (EM) recognised that acutely unwell or injured patients deserved the services of experienced doctors trained to deal with undifferentiated medical presentations, with the capability to resuscitate and stabilise the ill and injured of any age group, with any type of emergency.

Up to this point the preoccupation of hospital services and existing medical specialities was the delivery of scheduled care and the care of patients admitted to a hospital bed rather than those attending with unscheduled care needs.

Within a short few years, similar organisations had sprung up in the US (American College of Emergency Physicians), Australia and New Zealand (Australasian College of Emergency Medicine) and in Canada (Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians).

They shared the common goals of improving the care provided in their countries' emergency departments. Such has been the success of emergency medicine internationally that there are now very few countries in the developed world where emergency medicine has yet to be established as a medical specialty or the seeds of this development are germinating."
 



SUBMIT YOUR STORY 

H ave you or your hospital recently been featured in the news? Have you or your colleagues had a significant accomplishment? Would you like to feature your advocacy work? If so, we want to hear from you! 

CAEP Connects welcomes all kinds of submissions from our members. 
Please send your news story to Kelly Wyatt (kwyatt@caep.ca) to be included in future issues.

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