IntroducingAcademic Emergency Medicine Education and Training (2016)

We are excited to announce the birth of a new journal dedicated to emergency medicine educational scholarship. The new journal will be called Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training (AEM E&T). As of June 16, 2016, Academic Emergency Medicine will no longer review or accept manuscripts that center on education or training of emergency care providers. Instead, we will offer the manuscript's authors a choice of either having the paper reviewed for possible publication in the new journal, Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training, or having the option of withdrawing the manuscript all together. We will publish the first issue of AEM E&T in 2017, initially each quarter. We (JAK and SP), together with our support personnel from our publisher (John Wiley and Sons) and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) staff, will work diligently to gain registration in PubMed and MEDLINE and to establish an impact factor. Potential authors should be aware that these processes each typically require up to 3 years to accomplish for new journals. Based on our due diligence, we believe that once we are successfully registered on MEDLINE and PubMed, all papers published since inception of AEM E&T will be retrospectively cited in these databases. Formed by the union of two groups, the University Academic Emergency Physicians and the Society for Teachers of Emergency Medicine in 1989, SAEM has a long tradition of dedication to promoting excellence in educational research and training methodology. Over one-half of its members are currently in training, and the SAEM Vision Statement (2015) states, “To be the world's premier organization for developing academic leaders in education and research and for creating and disseminating content with the greatest impact on emergency care.” When SAEM created its flagship journal, Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM), the name was chosen in 1993 to reflect the balance of interests in the Society, including research and education. In the subsequent 23 years, the number of training programs has increased by 300%, causing a parallel increase in the number of academic educators in emergency care. Many of these educators are employed by universities that require evidence of peer reviewed scholarly productivity for professional advancement. A survey by Jordan and colleagues,1 published in this issue of AEM, shows the strong opinions of many thought leaders in emergency care that indicate the need for AEM E&T. Accordingly, to better suit the needs of the Society, one of us (JAK, incoming Editor-in-Chief, proposed the concept of AEM E&T to the SAEM Board of Directors, which endorsed it in fall 2015. The first Editor of AEM E&T, Susan Promes, was seated in February 2016, followed by the convening of the first editorial board with its inaugural meeting on April 24–25, 2016, in Chicago, IL. Members of the AEM E&T Editorial Board, 2016–2018 include: Susan B. Promes, MD, MBA Editor, AEM Education and Training Department of Emergency Medicine Penn State Hershey Hershey, PA Rebecca D. Blanchard, PhD Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine Baystate Health–Academic Affairs Springfield, MA Teresa Chan, MD, MHPE, FRCPC McMaster University Hamilton Health Sciences Hamilton, ON, Canada Stephen John Cico, MD, MEd Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Emergency Pediatrics Indiana University School of Medicine & Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health Indianapolis, IN Esther H. Chen, MD Emergency Medicine, UCSF Medical Center Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital San Francisco, CA Wendy C. Coates, MD David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Harbor-UCLA Emergency Medicine Los Angeles, CA Nicole M. Deiorio, MD Department of Emergency Medicine Oregon Health & Science UniversityPortland, OR Jonathan Ilgen, MD, MCR Division of Emergency Medicine University of Washington Harborview Medical Center Seattle, WA Sorabh Khandelwal, MD Department of Emergency Medicine The Ohio State College of Medicine Columbus, OH Jeffrey Kline, MD Editor-in-Chief, Academic Emergency Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, IN Jeffrey N. Love, MD, MSc Department of Emergency Medicine MedStar Georgetown University Hospital/Washington Hospital Center Washington, DC Sally Santen, MD Department of Emergency Medicine University of Michigan Health System Ann Arbor, MI Jonathan Sherbino, MD, MEd, FRCPC, FAcadMEd McMaster University St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton Hamilton, ON, Canada Sebastian Uijtdehaage, PhD F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, MD Lainie M. Yarris, MD, MCR Department of Emergency Medicine Oregon Health Systems University Portland, OR AEM E&T seeks to be the premier global journal for publishing scholarship in emergency medicine education and training. The journal seeks high-quality original work related to knowledge transfer, achieved by testing new methods to enhance the skill, knowledge retention, and professionalism of emergency care providers in training around the world. Specific areas of interest include original research and innovations in curriculum development, instructional strategies, development of validity evidence, assessment and evaluations of performance, quality improvement, and faculty development. A priority will be placed scholarship that is grounded in established educational theory. The journal does not restrict based on location of the learning experience and welcomes work done in the emergency department, in the classroom, out of hospital, in austere conditions, and from any country. AEM E&T complements AEM and does not compete for papers. While AEM may, on occasion, consider work that includes educational component, by and large, any papers submitted to AEM that the EIC deems to have a primary educational component will be rerouted to AEM E&T. As with AEM, AEM E&T will published by JB Wiley and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine holds the copyright to the journal title and its content. The journal will be electronic only. With the exception of article types, the journal style and guidelines to authors will follow that of AEM. The EIC of AEM, together with the Editor, are ultimately responsible for all content published; AEM E&T's editorial board is independent of AEM. Policies are set by the EIC and the Editor with input by the AEM E&T Editorial Board. Minimal criteria for reviewer status include either prior experience as a reviewer or sufficient publication history, decided initially on a case-by-case basis by the AEM E&T Editorial Board. Papers will be submitted to a unique website created in Manuscript Central specifically for AEM E&T. All submissions will be evaluated by a senior editor before sending to a decision editor. Some papers will be rejected prior to peer review. All noninvited papers require review and comment by at least two peer reviewers. Comments and scoring from peer reviewers will be considered by the decision editor in making the disposition. Authors may be given all comments by reviewers but the decision editor may or may not create a consensus review, summarizing the key reasons for rejection, or the absolute requirements for an acceptable revision. Revised papers may or may not be returned to the original reviewer, depending on the content and requests of the first set of reviews. The plan is to publish approximately 100 pages in quarterly installments in 2017 in electronic form. The journal will actively seek advertisements to enhance revenue and will seek to promote its publications by the EIC and Editor Pick of the issue, which will be e-mailed to all SAEM members. The journal staff and editorial board will actively seek to disseminate journal content on social media. We look forward to creating this important medium for dissemination of knowledge in emergency care to elevate the human condition during times of emergency.