Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health

CORD Abstracts 2025

Core Competencies in Trauma Informed Care for Emergency Medicine: A Modified Delphi Consensus

The Changing Landscape of Emergency Medicine Residency and the Workforce Report: From Programs to Applicants

Standard Letter of Evaluation Rating Associations with Individual versus Group Authorship and Volume of Letters Written

Burnout Among LGBTQIA+ EM Trainees: It’s Not All Sunshine and Rainbows

Baby Fever: Availability and Quality of Parental Leave Policies on Emergency Medicine Residency Websites

Beyond the Bedside: Exploring Social Determinants of Health through the Eyes of Emergency Medicine Clerkship Students

From Data to Development: Formative Feedback via Electronic Health Record Derived Metrics

Senior Resident Bootcamp: An Interactive Curriculum for Rising EM Senior Residents

Development of a Novel Automated Workflow to Improve Resident Feedback and Evaluations

Teaching Ultrasound Guided Fascia Iliaca Block to EM Residents

Effects of a Refresher Course on Graduating Medical Students’ Confidence in Point-Of-Care Ultrasound Skills

Lessons Learned from an High Fidelity in situ ED ECMO Simulation Pilot

Paving Professional Development Tracks: Create a Road from Scholarship to Program Requirements

Remote Point-Of-Care Ultrasound Training for Physicians in Low-Resource Countries

The Impact of Physician Online Medical Control on High Acuity Patients Arriving to a Community Teaching Hospital

Evaluating the Evaluators: Who Can You Trust with Entrustability?

Teaching Palliative Care Using Simulation and Standardized Patients in Emergent Settings

Can You Trust Entrustability? Evaluating Entrustable Professional Activities in Emergency Medicine Rotations

Improving Communication Skills in Difficult Situations: A Pre/Post Educational Intervention

Not Just a Game of Telephone - A Handoff Simulation

“Introduction to Ophthalmology” Session for Emergency Medicine Sub-Interns

Paper vs Plastic: Is There a Difference between Electronic and Paper Evaluations?

The State of Emergency Medicine Clerkships in United States Undergraduate Medical Education

“Podcast Conference Day” - The Implementation of a Live, Synchronous, Audio-Only Emergency Medicine Educational Conference and Its Impact on Resident Wellness and Knowledge Acquisition and Retention

Surviving the Wild: Gamification of Wilderness Medicine Training for Emergency Medicine Residents

Community and Connection in EM: An Arts- And Humanities-Based Curriculum to Address Loneliness in Residency

Pilot Program on Feasibility of Health Care Proxy Form Completion in the Emergency Department

The Breakfast Club: Enhancing Emergency Medicine Education through Spaced Retrieval and Elaborative Interrogation Techniques

Practice Makes Perfect: Using Soft Embalmed Cadavers as a Teaching Model for Hip Reduction

Addition of a Screen-Based Human-Like Avatar to Traditional Mannequin-Based Simulation for Emergency Medicine Resident Training

The Rural Rumble: Gamification and Simulation to Improve Resident Skills for Low-Resource Emergency Medicine Practice

Cruise Ship Catastrophe: An Escape Room Simulation for Mass Casualty and Disaster Medicine Training

Feedback Retaliation: Fact or Myth?

Mastering Disaster: Utilizing Gamification to Enhance Resident Education on Mass Casualty and Disaster Medicine

The Applicant’s Perspective of Social Media Use among Emergency Medicine Residency Programs

Creation and Implementation of an Ob-Gyn Escape Room for Emergency Medicine Residents

Characteristics and Educational Support Resources Available to Emergency Medicine Core Faculty: A National Survey

Patient Task Facilitator: Redefining the Shadower Role

Curriculum Overlap between EMS and Disaster Medicine Fellowship Programs in the United States

Enhancing Medical Student Confidence in Managing Patients with Mental Health Crises and Patients in Law Enforcement Custody

Do EM Residents Value Peer Support? Preliminary Evidence from Our Novel Resident Peer Support Program

Knowledge Gaps in Billing and Documentation Following the 2023 Evaluation and Management Services Guideline Changes

Physician Perception of Patient-Physician Communication 

Emergency Medicine Resident Perspectives about Feedback in the Emergency Department

Creation of a Resident Pod Improves Educational Experience in a Community Hospital

Nature vs. Nurture: Career Choice in Emergency Medicine Residents

Triage Time Trials: Enhancing Emergency Preparedness through a Mass Casualty Incident Simulation Race

From Outcomes to Insights: A Structured Reflection Tool for Practice-Based Learning and Improvement 

Improving the Evaluation and Feedback Process in an Emergency Medicine Residency Program 

It’s Scarlet in the Study! Deciphering Toxic Pathologies in a Murder Mystery Party 

Assessing Structural Competency Using ACGME Milestones: Uncovering Challenges and Needs 

Job Placement and Satisfaction among Emergency Medicine Residency Graduates

Feasibility of a Performance Benchmark System Using Emergency Medicine Resident End-Of-Shift Assessments

Using Quality Improvement Education to Improve Care of Septic Patients in the ED

Open to Interpretation: Design Thinking, Role-Reversal Simulation, Builds Empathy in Language Discordant Care

Growing a Culture of Feedback in Emergency Medicine: A Multifaceted Curriculum Design and Incentive Structure 

Foundations of Emergency Medicine: Development, Use, and Satisfaction of a Novel Curriculum Focusing on Lower Acuity Conditions

BINGO: A Novel Observation Tool to Optimize the Observer Role in Simulation Based Setting

National Survey of Emergency Medicine Residency Program Simulation Resources 

Characteristics of Soaped EM Residents 

Leading in Silence: Simulating a Mass Casualty Event with a Deafened Commander

Best Practices for Teaching Verbal De-Escalation in Health Professions Education: A Systematic Review 

Rapid Development of a Novel Faculty Development Curriculum Utilizing Junior Faculty as Primary Authors

Cost-Effective Transesophageal Echocardiography Training on Cadavers with Nonfunctional Transducer

The ITE House Cup: A Game-Changing Approach to Resident Board Preparation 

Pediatric Ultrasound for Lumbar Puncture - A Simulated Task Trainer for Emergency Medicine Residents 

Floating to Find Rhythm: Assessing Procedural Confidence and Competence in a Novel Transvenous Pacemaker Simulation

Doc Trial: A Targeted Documentation Curriculum for Emergency Medicine Residents

Guess Who: Repurposing Childhood Nostalgia as a Gamified Teaching Tool

Procedural Competency in Emergency Medicine Resident Physicians in Training: How is Competency Maintained, Evaluated, and Improved?

How Single Accreditation Has Changed the Composition of Residency Programs

Establishing Procedural Confidence in Emergency Medicine: The Role of a Dedicated Intern Procedure Lab

Defibrillate, Cardiovert, Pace! Translating Skills from Simulated to Real Equipment

The Dose Makes the Poison: Cultivating Knowledge of Toxins and Treatments on a Botanical Voyage

Enhancing Resident Preparedness and Interest in Critical Access Hospital Emergency Departments through a Specialized Curriculum

Crash Course – A Critical Care Curriculum for PGY-1 Emergency Medicine Residents

Bingo! A Multiplayer Synchronous Serious Game to Increase Weekly Conference Engagement and Learning

Navigating Clinical Feedback in Emergency Medicine: A Scoping Review

Shifting Training Preferences in Emergency Medicine Residency Applicants: A Post Interview Analysis from 2020 to 2024

A Comparative Study of Emergency Medicine Question Bank Performance and In-Training Exam Results in Emergency Medicine Residents over Four Years.

Erector Spinae Plane Block: Regional Anesthesia Education for the EM Resident

Drivers of Engagement/Burnout Workshop: A Fun, Engaging Way to Generate Performance Improvement Projects

Know Your Pressor: Table-Top Simulation for Push “micro” Dose Pressor Preparation and Use

Utilizing Simulation to Integrate Social Determinants of Health into Emergency Medicine Medical Student Clerkships

Navigating the Emotional Transition to and through Intern Year

An Addiction Medicine Program for Emergency Medicine Residents

Simulated Cranial Ultrasound for Longitudinal Learning: An Interactive Session for Emergency Medicine Residents

Mentorship as a Catalyst for Academic Writing in Emergency Medicine

LGBTQ+ Health in Emergency Medicine Residency Curricula: A Needs Assessment

Use of Layered Gelatin/Tapioca Abdominal Wall Model to Practice Tans Abdominal Plane Block Regional Anesthesia

Ultrasound Education: Knowledge Degradation during Residency

Improvisation Clinic – Building Relationship-Centered Communication Skills and Enhancing Learner Feedback in Emergency Medicine through Applied Improvisation

Implementation of a “Bias Interrupter” Into the Clinical Competency Committee

Evaluating Health Equity Education in Emergency Medicine Residencies

From Triage to Transformation: Medical Students Navigating Health Systems Science in the Emergency Medicine Clerkship

Einstein’s Last Words: Enhancing On-Shift Learning in the Busy Emergency Department

Palliative Care Needs Assessment for Emergency Medicine Residents

A Low-Cost, Reusable, Three-Dimensional Printed Ultrasound Phantom for Simulation of Knee Arthrocentesis

Improving Faculty Performance in Providing Written Feedback to Learners

Peer Power: Near-Peer Led Content Review as a Catalyst for Improved NBME Shelf Exam Scores

Differences in Language Used to Describe Racial Groups in Emergency Medicine Standardized Letter of Evaluation

Emergencies in Undocumented Persons - A Simulation Case

Resident Comfort, Retention, and Clinical Integration following Ultrasound-Guided Nerve Block Procedure Simulation Course

Communication in Difficult Patient Encounters

Implicit Bias in Emergency Medicine Rotation: Themes from Student Narratives

Does Evaluation Transparency Affect the Authenticity of Clinical Evaluation Scoring for Medical Students in EM Rotations

Coaching Efficiency – Finish Shift on Time to Win This Game!

Optimizing Resident Engagement and Educational Outcomes in Emergency Medicine Oral Boards Preparation Using Morning Report pro (MR PRO)

Impact of a Grading Committee on Addressing Inequities in Assessment for a Fourth-Year Emergency Medicine Clerkship

Intubations, Central Lines and EKGs, Oh My: Competency Based Education in Emergency Medicine Residency Procedures

Implementation of Cost Effective Care Education in an EM Residency Curriculum: A Multimodal Approach

Project Emma (Emergency Medicine Milestone Application)

Thinking about the End: Addressing Resident Perceptions of Palliative Care in the Emergency Department

Physician-Patient Communication in Emergency Medicine Resident vs Attending Physicians

Gender-Coded Language in Recruitment Materials Influences Student Choices during Application to Summer Externships and Residencies

Calculating Work Relative Value Units for EM Residents: Another Piece of the Productivity Puzzle

Fascia Iliaca Block vs Combined Fascia Iliaca Block with Femoral Nerve Block for Pain Control for Proximal Hip Fractures in the Emergency Department

Tele - Telemedicine Education Landscape Evaluation

Relationship between Gender Identity and Underrepresented-In-Medicine Identity on Emergency Medicine Resident Feedback

A Low-Fidelity, Active Learning Approach to Resuscitation Leadership Education

Interprofessional Slit Lamp Training for Emergency Medicine Residents

Evaluating the Impact of Electronic Interventions on EM Standardized Letter of Evaluation Part B Ratings

Rapid Decisions, Real Evidence: Shaping Tomorrow’s Emergency Physicians with an Innovative Evidence-Based Medicine Curriculum

Drivers of Past and Present Interview Practices for Emergency Medicine Residencies

Impact of Simulation-Based Training on Procedural Competency 

Resuscitation Leadership Performance in Emergency Medicine Residents

Factors Influencing Applicants’ Decisions to Not Pursue Emergency Medicine Residency in 2023: A National Survey

The State of the Profession: A National Survey of Emergency Medicine Assistant/Associate Program Directors

Use of End-Of-Block Milestone Assessments by Clinical Competency Committee to Generate Real-Time Milestone Ratings

Not so Soporific: 3 Years of Stimulating Sleep Curricula

Impact of the Away Rotation on Program Match Rates in Era of Virtual Residency Recruitment

Development and Results of a Novel Emergency Medicine Residency Research Immersion Program

Diverging Paths: Examining Initial Career Choices of Chief Residents in Emergency Medicine!

Unpacking Diversity: LGBTQIA+ Representation among Emergency Medicine Residents

Through the Prism: Shining Light on LGBTQIA+ Applicant Identities and Influences

Billable Student Documentation in Emergency Medicine: Implementation, Experience, and Outcomes

Factors that Influence Medical Student Perception of Emergency Medicine

Point of Care Ultrasound to Expedite Emergency Department Disposition

Teaching the ABCs

Analyzing Trends in DO Match Rates for Primary vs. Non-Primary Care (2020-2024)