Growing a Specialty Specific Community of Practice in Education Scholarship

Abstract

Emergency medicine (EM) educators have many masters. These include our hospital administrations who expect efficient patient care reflecting the priorities of safety and quality, the accreditation council for graduate medical education which has introduced a new competency-based standard by which our learners must be educated and last but not least, our learners that are using new educational modalities based on expanding digital platforms. To be successful, educators must satisfy each of these masters against the backdrop of increasing regulations, decreasing funding and information technology that appears to decrease our time with patients and perhaps learners in clinical practice.