The Class of 2010 supports this yearly gift to a current resident who has a planned educational experience that requires additional funding.
Thanks to the spirit of 2010 award we were able to support honoraria for nationally renowned speakers to discuss topics on culturally effective medicine, community engagement, and caring for patients with limited English proficiency”
I am deeply grateful and excited for the SPIRIT award from the class of 2010. With the funds from this award, I have confirmed from three speakers who not only have deep connections to Black and Latinx that are continually communities affected by systemic, structural, and institutional racism, elevated mortality in the setting of the COVID-19 pandemic, and shuttering of health institutions. These speakers are also practiced in listening evaluating and speaking with and in some cases on behalf of such populations. They offer a master class in anti-racism and work as activists augmenting the voices of their communities. I relish the opportunity to learn how we as emerging EM physicians might better dialogue with, listen to, and advocate for our communities. None of this would be possible without the funding of the class of 2010.
Because of the Spirit of 2010 Award, I was able to attend the National Association of EMS Physician’s 2020 National EMS Medical Director’s Course and Practicum in beautiful San Diego, CA. I got to learn about a wide variety of EMS systems and meet people in the field from around the country (and a few international attendees as well), discussing not only the basics of medical directorship but also the unique challenges and situations that can arise”
I was able to complete a 4-day course entrenched with hands-on field experience managing emergency medical situations in the wilderness through the Advanced Wilderness Life Support in Leavenworth, WA. This course gave an overview of not just common injuries and illness associated with different environments be it dive-related pathology, marine envenomation, altitude illness, avalanche rescue, environmental exposures, and common traumatic injuries sustained in the wild. The Spirit of 2010 gave the academic and monetary support to allow me to pursue this experience, and for that I am ever grateful.”
I was able to create eye models with changeable intra-ocular pressure in order to teach program participants to measure IOP with a tonopen and recognize pressures that are too high or too low. At the conference this year I was also able to present a case during the poster presentation session, making me a more competitive applicant when applying for fellowships this fall.”
