{"pk":13686,"title":"Addressing Challenges in Obtaining Emergency Medicine Away Rotations and Standardized Letters of Evaluation Due to COVID-19 Pandemic","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine (CORD) Advising Students Committee in Emergency Medicine (ASC-EM) anticipates institutional and regional variability in both the spread and response to COVID-19. Travel restrictions and host institution rotation closures will impact the number of emergency medicine (EM) rotations EM-bound medical students can complete in an unprecedented manner. They may prevent students from completing any away rotations this academic cycle, challenging the students’ ability to obtain EM Standardized Letters of Evaluation (SLOEs). EM’s emphasis on residency group SLOEs over other letter types creates an undue burden on these vulnerable students and makes the application process intrinsically inequitable. This inequity warrants a reevaluation of the current application practice. This article outlines ASC-EM's proposed recommendations for all stakeholders, including EM program leadership, medical schools, and EM-bound medical students, to consider for the upcoming EM application cycle.","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":"Covid-19, coronavirus, emergency medicine, away rotations, SLOE"}],"section":"Education","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9724t4g5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Linda","middle_name":"","last_name":"Katirji","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Kentucky, Department of Emergency Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Liza","middle_name":"","last_name":"Smith","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Massachusetts Medical School, Baystate Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Springfield, Massachusetts","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Alexis","middle_name":"","last_name":"Pelletier-Bui","name_suffix":"","institution":"Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Camden, New Jersey","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Emily","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hillman","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Missouri—Kansas City School of Medicine, Truman Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Xiao","middle_name":"Chi","last_name":"Zhang","name_suffix":"","institution":"Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"","last_name":"Pasirstein","name_suffix":"","institution":"Drexel University College of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Mark","middle_name":"","last_name":"Olaf","name_suffix":"","institution":"Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Scranton, Pennsylvania","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Jazmyn","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shaw","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Mississippi School of Medicine, Univeristy of Mississippi Medical Center, \nJackson, Mississippi","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Douglas","middle_name":"","last_name":"Franzen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Washington, Department of Emergency Medicine, Seattle, Washington","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Ronnie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ren","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Massachusetts Medical School, Baystate Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Springfield, Massachusetts","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2020-03-27T18:01:29Z","date_accepted":"2020-03-27T18:01:29Z","date_published":"2020-04-02T19:59:45Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/13686/galley/7146/download/"}]}