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Lessons learned from Emergency Medicine Residents Network
The document discusses the challenges and solutions faced by the Emergency Medicine Residents Network (EMRN) established in Taiwan, focusing on the need for enhanced communication and collaboration among emergency medicine residents. Key achievements include a growing membership of over 3,320, numerous events such as lecture competitions and forums, and the use of social media for networking. Ongoing challenges involve adapting to rapid changes in the population and ensuring sustainability of the network.
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Lessons learned from Emergency Medicine Residents Network
- 1. Lessons Learned from EmergencyMedicine Residents Network Ching-Hsing Lee, M.D. Shao-Feng Liao, M.D. Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan June 15, 2019
- 2. No financial conflict ofinterest to disclose
- 3. Demographics Population: 23 millions Primaryboard in 1998 Emergency physicians: 2023
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- 5. Challenges we face •Separateand small training programs •Shift work and rotation training •Decreased peer learning, resource sharing, networking
- 6. Solutions we provide •Socialmedia based networking •Volunteer core members from diverse hospitals •Collaborate with Taiwan Society of Emergency Medicine (TSEM)
- 7. Lesson 1: SoMePlatform
- 8. Lesson 2: Structuremodels
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- 10. Emergency Medicine ResidentsNetwork (EMRN) launched on Facebook in December 2015
- 12. Lesson 4: Communicationplatform
- 14. Lesson 5: Content CreationCuration
- 15. Lesson 6: SoMePolicy Patient privacy Hostile/destructive words Merchandise selling
- 16. Lesson 7: Membersengagement
- 17. Interviews with EMPhysicians
- 18. EM Residents LectureCompetition
- 19. Residents Dine withAttending
- 20. Lesson 8: Internationalreach out
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- 23. Taiwan and HongKong EM Residents’ Forum
- 24. What EMRN achieved •More than 3320 members • 37 episodes of mini-interviews on Youtube • 5 Dine with EM attendings • 3 EM Residents lecture competitions • 3 Hong Kong and Taiwan EM Residents’ Forum • 2 e-books
- 25. Lessons still challenging Rapidchange population Sustainability
- 26. Make it fun Makeit rewarding Make it sustainable
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Editor's Notes
- #2 Hello everyone I am Dr ching Hsing Lee from Taiwan Thanks Dr DeVos for the opportunity to share our work on Emergency Medicine Residents Network in the past 3 years
- #3 First of all, I have no financial confolict of interest to disclose
- #4 Here is Taiwan The population are 23 millions EM became independent specialty and primary board in 1998 Currently, there are more than 2000 board certified EM physicians
- #5 There are 46 training programs and 116 new residents every year The majority resident numbers per training program every year are 2 or 3.
- #6 The challenges we face are the majority training programs are small and disperse. The nature of EM are shift work and rotation training. These factors hinder resource sharing, peer learning, networking, and collaboration between residents and training programs.
- #7 We try to use social media platform, recruiting volunteers from different training programs, cooperate with Taiwan Society of Emergency Medicine (TSEM) to deal with the challenges.
- #8 So, lesson 1 Which SoMe platform to use? Twitter has word count limitation Facebook inetergrate text, pohots, videos Instagram was design for photos Youtube and Vimeo are designed for vidoes Which SoMe platform to use 1. Dependents on where your target population are 2. The format of your content text, photos, videos, or all of the above 3. How much resources do you have to handle more than 1 platform
- #9 Lesson 2, the structure, there are at least 3 models an independent society, like EMRA in the US the largest and oldest independent resident organization in the world, funded in 1974 Under a current society: SAEM resident and medical students board AAEM resident and student association HKCEM emergency medicine Trainee’ network An independent SoMe based network like ALiEM
- #10 Lesson 3, the funding Independent society and subcommittee may have stable funding support SoMe based network need volunteer, donation, or collaboration partners
- #11 In 2015, we launched the EMRN on facebook, An independent SoMe based network
- #12 At the very beginning, there are 3 core members to operate EMRN Three of us are come from 3 different hospital in different city of Taiwan
- #13 Lesson 4, which communication platform to use To facilate overcome time and geographical distance Facebook messenger, WhatsApp, LINE….it depends on the members habit Slack is another popular team collaboration software, which can handle more complicated collaboration with better integration with over Apps or software Currently we use FB messenger, since it integrate with facebook better Slack is reserve for complicated team work
- #14 After the facebook group was launched
- #15 Lesson 5 is the content Content is King! our content come from both creation and curation
- #16 Lesson 6, SoMe policy When there is content, you need policy to keep thing on the right tract It is a balance between openness and conservativeness, liberal and control We decided to minimize the influence of our personal value to EMRN That will be a true platform of EM residents The only forbidden post are Patient privacy violation Hostile/destructive words Merchandise selling
- #17 Lesson 7, Members engagement Most of the interaction of SoMe platform are not face to face We still need face to face activity to enhance Members engagemen
- #18 We arrange Interviews with EM Physicians
- #19 Residents Lecture Competition
- #20 Residents Dine with Attending from different training programs
- #21 Lesson 8, international In additional to domestic networking, we also try to reach out We keep close networking with HK trainee group International Conference networking ED visit EM Forum
- #26 EM residents are a rapid changing population Not only the length of training, but also there SoMe platform preference We must keep invest in