{"pk":12968,"title":"Early Impact of the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine CDEM/CORD Special Issue in Educational Research & Practice","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Introduction:\n In 2015, with a stated goal of disseminating best teaching practices and developing a community of educational scholars, the Council of Emergency Medicine Directors (CORD) and th eClerkship Directors of Emergency Medicine (CDEM) created an annual Special Issue in Educational Research and Practice (Special Issue) in cooperation with the \nWestern Journal of Emergency Medicine\n. The intention of this study was to analyze the impact of this effort to date.\nMethods: \nBibliometric data was gathered on all four special issues, 2015-2019, from the Web of Scienceand then verified with the eScholarship website. Authorship, academic affiliation, date published, articletype, and format were tabulated for descriptive analysis. Using metrics from Google Scholar, alternative scholarly impact metrics (altmetrics), and the eScholarship website, the authors identified top articles and grouped them into themes.\nResults: \nOf the 136 articles included in the first four years of the Special Issue, 126 represented peer reviewed publications with an overall acceptance rate of 25.0% (126/505). Authors from this cohort represented 103 of the 182 (56.6%) Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) programs in existence at the time of the inaugural issue. Multi-institutional studies represented 34.9% (44/126) of the peer-reviewed publications. Traditional and alternative publication metrics are reported to assess the impact of articles from the Special Issues.\nConclusion:\n The Special Issue is a proven outlet to share best practices, innovations, and research related to education. Additionally, the infrastructure of this process promotes the development of individual faculty and a community of teaching scholars.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Education, Scholarship, Impact, Community of Practice"}],"section":"Educational Advances","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0jr8v9zw","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jeffrey","middle_name":"N.","last_name":"Love","name_suffix":"","institution":"George Washington University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Washington,\nDistrict of Columbia","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Sally","middle_name":"A.","last_name":"Santen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Richmond,\nVirginia","department":"None"},{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"P.","last_name":"Way","name_suffix":"","institution":"Ohio State University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbus, Ohio","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Brendan","middle_name":"W.","last_name":"Munzer","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Michigan, Department of Emergency Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Chris","middle_name":"","last_name":"Merritt","name_suffix":"","institution":"Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Department of Emergency Medicine &\nPediatrics, Providence, Rhode Island","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Douglas","middle_name":"S.","last_name":"Ander","name_suffix":"","institution":"Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Atlanta,\nGeorgia","department":"None"},{"first_name":"John","middle_name":"W.","last_name":"Cyrus","name_suffix":"","institution":"Virginia Commonwealth University, Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health\nSciences, Richmond, Virginia","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2019-07-15T12:42:46Z","date_accepted":"2019-07-15T12:42:46Z","date_published":"2019-12-09T23:18:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/12968/galley/6801/download/"}]}