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08/12/2024
Presidential Address
CDR Sean Stuart, DO, FACEP
GSACEP continues to focus on supporting you at every stage of your career. I’m excited to share that in the last few months, we’ve continued our long-standing trend of progress. We’ve launched several initiatives aimed at enhancing the support we provide to our members and advancing the practice of emergency medicine in federal service. These initiatives include new information packets for medical students and graduating residents, the development of a webinar series, and expanded website resources such as a compendium of mental health support. Additionally, based on your feedback, we are expanding our communication avenues to include more social outlets, a revised Facebook group for member interaction, and a news brief to keep you informed on topics that matter most to you. Each of these efforts reflects our commitment to delivering greater value and ensuring that GSACEP remains a leader in our field and a bastion for emergency physicians serving our country.
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Meet your Board Members
The GSACEP Board members are elected by the members of the Government Chapter of ACEP to represent their interests through dedicated advocacy, community outreach, and active participation in the annual ACEP council meeting. These members generously volunteer their time and effort to support emergency physicians working in federal service or the United States Armed Forces. Learn more about your representatives here.
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Residency Spotlight: Wright Patterson Air Force Base
Our excellent training is provided by leveraging the military-civilian partnership with Wright State University. We offer the unique experience to train in high acuity and high-volume civilian hospitals taking care of the sickest of the sick patients every shift, while also working at WPAFB honing officership and military leadership. Our military faculty also get dedicated time to work with the residents at their primary civilian clinical site which is a busy Level 1 trauma center. Our dedicated ITE prep has led to historic high pass rates of ABEM exams, while the combination of academic and clinical experience has pushed alumni into competitive fellowships (including critical care, EMS, ultrasound, simulation, wilderness medicine, and toxicology), MTF leadership positions, AFSOC billets, and beyond.
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Train Ride to the Hyatt: Leadership and Advocacy Conference
Maj Joshua Da Silva, DO, USAF, FACEP
I remember sitting in the sun on the train to the Hyatt hotel this April, full of excited and nervous energy, thinking about how much I love this conference and where it has brought me. My first time at the Leadership and Advocacy conference was in 2023, and it was a moment that changed the trajectory of my career. It was a moment, sitting in a lecture on policy, when I realized “I found my people!”. I was a little surprised at how much I enjoyed being there, but looking back I see the steps that led me there. Living through COVID made me realize how quickly I could become a victim of the system, and I needed to start using my voice to advocate for change.
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The “Invisible Corps” - Being Active Duty with the US Public Health Service
Knowing that all active duty military physicians will eventually leave their Services, GSACEP wants to help its members understand their career options, so they can make informed decisions on how they can make a smooth transition out of the armed forces. In this article, I wanted to share some additional details about what it is like to be an active duty physician in the USPHS. The USPHS is one of our country’s 8 uniformed services (Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard, and NOAA round out the list) and traces its roots back to 1798 with the passage of the Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen. Given the importance of maritime trade and commerce on the economic success and national security of a young nation, the Act provided for a way to collect monies to go into the Department of the Treasury to fund medical care for seamen and to build hospitals at ports to provide their care.
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