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COMMON SENSE VOICE OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE VOLUME 25, ISSUE 4 JULY/AUGUST 2018 AAEM on Capitol Hill: Advocating for Due Process 14 President’s Message: From the Editor’s Wellness Life is No AAEM/RSA Coming Back to Life 3 Desk: Pilgrimage 5 Committee 32 Longer Linear: 33 President’s 34 … Let’s Break the Report on The Young Message: The Silence! the State of Physician Year Ahead Burnout Section Can Be Your Guide COMMON SENSE Table of Contents TM Regular Features President’s Message: Coming Back to Life … Let’s Break the Silence! ............................................3 From the Editor’s Desk: Pilgrimage ...................................................................................................5 Donations: Foundation, PAC, LEAD-EM ..........................................................................................8 Upcoming Conferences .................................................................................................................12 Washington Watch: Two Days in D.C. with AAEM ...........................................................................15 O!cers Dollars & Sense: Size Does Matter … For Your Expense Ratio ......................................................17 President Young Physicians Section News: Life is No Longer Linear: Let YPS David A. Farcy, MD FCCM Be Your Guide! ................................................................................................................................33 President-Elect AAEM/RSA President’s Message: The Year Ahead ........................................................................34 Lisa Moreno-Walton, MD MS MSCR AAEM/RSA Editor: Find Your Power Ballad ....................................................................................35 Secretary-Treasurer Resident Journal Review: It is Not a STEMI, Now What? ...............................................................38 Jonathan S. Jones, MD Medical Student Council President’s Message ...............................................................................41 Immediate Past President Job Bank .........................................................................................................................................43 Mark Reiter, MD MBA Special Articles Past Presidents Council Representative Howard Blumstein, MD Blast from the Past ...........................................................................................................................7 Master of AAEM Series: AAEM - Now More than Ever! ..................................................................19 Board of Directors Emergency Medicine at Risk?.........................................................................................................20 Kevin Beier, MD AMA Annual Meeting: Sexual Harassment and Venture Capitalists’ Robert Frolichstein, MD Purchase of Medical Practices ................................................................................................22 Megan Healy, MD Bobby Kapur, MD MPH ED Crowding and Boarding: A Shift in Strategy ..............................................................................24 Evie Marcolini, MD FCCM Critical Care Medical Section Update .............................................................................................25 Terrence Mulligan, DO MPH Diversity and Inclusion: A Brief Career Overview ...........................................................................26 Brian Potts, MD MBA Burning Both Ends of the Candle ...................................................................................................28 Thomas Tobin, MD MBA Government and National A!airs Committee Update .....................................................................30 International Scholarship Recipients ..............................................................................................31 YPS Director Jennifer Kanapicki Comer, MD Wellness Committee Report on the State of Burnout: Emergency Medicine Still Revs Our Engines, So Why Do We Feel Like We’re Running On Empty? ...............................................32 AAEM/RSA President My AAEM/RSA Congressional Elective Experience ........................................................................36 MohammedMoiz Qureshi, MD Updates and Announcements Editor, Common Sense The Members Speak - AAEM Membership Survey.........................................................................21 Ex-O!cio Board Member CPC-EM Achieves Inclusion in PubMed and PubMed Central ........................................................23 Andy Mayer, MD West JEM’s 2017 SJR and Scopus Citescore Rankings Achieve Notable Growth ..........................23 Editor, JEM Ex-O!cio Board Member Stephen R. Hayden, MD AAEM Mission Statement The American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) is the specialty society of emergency medicine. AAEM is a democratic organization Executive Director committed to the following principles: Kay Whalen, MBA CAE 1. Every individual should have unencumbered access to quality emergency care provided by a specialist in emergency medicine. 2. The practice of emergency medicine is best conducted by a specialist in emergency medicine. Associate Executive Director 3. A specialist in emergency medicine is a physician who has achieved, through personal dedication and sacrifice, certification by either the Janet Wilson, CAE American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) or the American Osteopathic Board of Emergency Medicine (AOBEM). 4. The personal and professional welfare of the individual specialist in emergency medicine is a primary concern to the AAEM. Common Sense Editors 5. The Academy supports fair and equitable practice environments necessary to allow the specialist in emergency medicine to deliver the Mehruba Anwar Parris, MD, Assistant Editor highest quality of patient care. Such an environment includes provisions for due process and the absence of restrictive covenants. Nick Pettit, DO PhD, Resident Editor 6. The Academy supports residency programs and graduate medical education, which are essential to the continued enrichment of Laura Burns, MA, Managing Editor emergency medicine and to ensure a high quallity of care for the patients. 7. The Academy is committed to providing a!ordable high quality continuing medical education in emergency medicine for its members. Articles appearing in Common Sense are intended 8. The Academy supports the establishment and recognition of emergency medicine internationally as an independent specialty and is for the individual use of AAEM members. 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Student Member: $30 or $60 (voting in AAEM/RSA elections only) International Student Member: $30 (voting in AAEM/RSA elections only) *Fellows-in-Training membership includes Young Physicians Section (YPS) membership. Pay dues online at www.aaem.org or send check or money order to: AAEM, 555 East Wells Street, Suite 1100, Milwaukee, WI 53202 Tel: (800) 884-2236, Fax: (414) 276-3349, Email: [email protected] 2 COMMON SENSE JULY/AUGUST 2018 AAEM-0618-554 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE President’s Message Coming Back to Life … Let’s Break the Silence! David A. Farcy, MD FAAEM FCCM President, AAEM “For millions of years mankind lived just like the In my early years, I could not understand suicide. I saw it as a sign of animals weakness. Then, I served in the Air Force during Desert Storm and Then something happened which unleashed the Desert Shield and something happened when I got home and separated power of our imagination from the service that I could not understand, could not explain and most We learned to talk” importantly, could not face or admit that it was happening to me. I had lost — Pink Floyd, Keep Talking the joy of life. I had survivors’ guilt, but I wasn’t aware or did not want to deal with it. At a skydiving event, my older brother came to see me, and “Lost in thought and lost in time jokingly I made the comment “God does not want me, if he wanted me, While the seeds of life and the seeds of change were planted he would