Committees
Updated 2021 - March
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Awards Committee
- Recruited Chair and Co-Chair, goal to have Vice Chair in training to assume Chair status the following year
- Executive board member serves as liaison
- Responsibilities:
- Promote applications for GSACEP and ACEP awards
- Review GSACEP award applications and recommend recipients to Board of Directors
Conference Committee
- Recruited Chair and Co-Chair, goal to have Vice Chair in training to assume Chair status the following year
- Executive board member serves as liaison
- Responsibilities:
- Oversee all GSS related planning
- Ensure financially responsible conference with appropriate board oversight
- Post conference: compile an after-action report
Membership Committee
Goal 1: Supporting Members through all Career Transitions
Objectives:
- Enhance transition information from residency to attending
- Develop a process to maintain career development material including info on fellowships.
- Outline initial board certification requirements, navigation with deployments & reimbursements
- Develop resources to improve preparation for evaluations and promotions.
- Assist preparation and success in operational roles and on deployments
- Gather and centralize information about types of operational billets & deployments across the Services
- Gather resources for personal and professional success on deployment
- Provide information on pre-deployment training opportunities
- Support transition to Reserve, Guard, VA, and Federal Service.
- Establish collection of network leaders
- Resource document on benefits, credit for service
- Educate on advancement and unique opportunities available
- Support transition to civilian employment.
- Resource document on how to search for a position
- Resource document on selecting a civilian position (benefits, pay, non-compete clauses)
- Resource document on documentation/billing
Measures of success - increase in participation & diversity of participants, increase website traffic, member survey (annual or bi-annual)
Goal 2: Highly connected and engaged membership leading to higher recruitment and retention
Objectives:
- Foster asynchronous bidirectional communication
- Build network for communicating and connecting
- Design network framework
- Identify unique areas/Communities for member connection
- Identify role/responsibility Network leaders”
- Codify process to maintain network leaders
- Develop value added services for resident members
- Identify value added programs unique to residents
- Develop programs/benefits
- Communicate package to residents
- Assess and revise programs/services
Measures of success: - One value added touch point per member per month, Increased engagement members as network leaders, # Network leaders transition to BOD/Ctte leadership, Increased candidate to active membership, Increased candidate membership
Nominating Committee
- Chair: President elect
- Responsibilities:
- Present a slate of qualified candidates for board of directors 90 days prior to GSACEP elections
PR/Advocacy Committee
GSACEP Strategic Goal: Highly connected and engaged membership leading to higher recruitment and retention
Obj 1: Foster asynchronous bidirectional communication |
1. Identify Platform |
2. Determine administrators/ moderators and process to appoint/train |
3. Train "network leads" as platform champions |
4. Transition current modalities to platform or link to platform |
5. Generate core topics, initial topics to place on platform. Align with SP goals/obj |
PR/Advocacy Tactic:
- Increase member utilization of Tradewings platform
- Identify chapter activities that can be hosted on platform to increase use
- Advertise platform at Conference
- Advertise to members at various clinical/residency sites
- GSACEP speaker list to residencies
- Website
- Content update and evaluation
- New content necessary?
- EPIC Newsletter
- Interim chair for summer
- Increase PR/Advocacy and Newsletter committee membership
Timing:
PR/Advocacy Supporting Goal:
- Coordinate with other committees to provide repository for generated content (Completed)
- Coordinate with other committees for distribution and advertising of generated content (Completed)
Timing
GSACEP Strategic Goal: Ensure a voice for Military/Federal Emergency Physicians
Obj 1: Develop educational product for the chapter leadership and the membership on what we can and can't do in Advocacy |
1. Develop draft document |
2. Send document to BOD for review/edit |
3. Send document to ACEP legal for review/edits |
4. Develop educational product for the membership (powerpoint, talking points) |
5. Distribute educational product to membership |
Obj 2:Establish PR & Advocacy Committee |
1. Define committee and identify members |
2. Create Committee goals, structure, connections, barriers(?) |
3. Connect committee to other organizations (ABEM, VA, DHA etc |
4. Create content around experiences & stories ( share personal advocacy journeys) |
PR/Advocacy Tactic:
- Solicit and Develop ACEP Council Resolutions for issues of concern for GSACEP members
- Create guidelines for items to be considered for GSACEP advocacy efforts
- Refine and share educational product format
- Podcast episode (Tilley)
- Identify training resources from ACEP available for GSACEP member use
- Add to Tradewing and website
- Highlight in EPIC
Timing:
Obj 3: Reform Fellowship in Leadership Development |
1. Evaluate current leadership grants/awards/Fellowship |
2. Develop goals/deliverables for those that receive awards/Fellowship |
3. Submit goals/deliverables to BOD for approval |
4.Update reqs to apply for leadership awards/Fellowship |
5. Turnover management program to Awards Committee |
PR/Advocacy Tactic: (Deferred to Q1 2022)
- Compare two advocacy awards (fellowship and LAC scholarship) to identify best practice
- Evaluate/compare EMRA opportunities and look for synergy
- Identify successful elements from past winners
- Survey? Completed. 1 respondent
- Success stories from prior fellows?
- Identify barriers to application
- Evaluate appropriate target audience
- Residents
- Early career attendings
- Late career attendings
- Consider modifications from COVID impacts
- What is value add for participants because you’re going to end up there anyway? Focus on actual skills and tangible benefits.
- Is “Fellowship” the right word? New name perhaps. Coaching? Mentorship?
Timing: Q2 2022