Harbor Emergency Medical Education Foundation

This item represents the IT support for several QI and research projects that Emergency Medicine residents are actively working on in collaboration with the Emergency Medicine faculty. The largest project IT cost was based on a grant to create an online screening tool for adult and pediatric patients to assess their social needs determine their understanding of access to resources within the community and assess if it is feasible for staff in the ED to perform this screening. The goal is to establish a resource database specifically for patients at Harbor-UCLA. Costs include the creation and maintenance of the website data reporting systems and analytic. The remainder of IT costs include Ultrasound-based educational programs for research projects and iPads for similar projects. Additionally subscriptions to programming that allows for the ease of scheduling are critical to manage the complexities of staffing the busy department. A minor component of this item includes the programming that performs payroll and pdf editing.

This item represents a number of general office supplies such as paper stamps and printing costs for alumni relations. The largest component of this item was used to purchase training equipment to ensure that nurses and doctors in the Level 1 trauma center are adequately prepared for multi-casualty incidences. This is training equipment that was funded by HEMEF through the above grant for a QI project that a resident is working on with faculty and the trauma team. The equipment is owned by the hospital. The additional funds will be used for more simulation task trainers.

This represents additional compensation for resident trainees who covered additional work hours for their colleagues

Every year the Emergency Medicine program that Harbor Emergency Medical Education Foundation supports interviews an average of 160 applicants. provide food on interview days. We provide promotional materials such as water bottles and fanny packs. We also provide food for recruitment socials. Travel reimbursement is offered to students who have financial hardship that would make it difficult to rotated at our facility. Although this cost component could also be placed in the travel category the purpose for these applicants is promotion of the program in the form of recruitment. During rotating student visits they are paired with mentors to advise them about the application process and we support this endeavor by reimbursing food for these meetings.

The item represents food purchases for conferences. The supported Residency program has 48 conferences per year with approximately 50 people attending each. They also host several larger joint conferences. Additionally this item represents food purchased for smaller mentor groups which occur multiple times throughout the year. Finally the doctors in the Emergency Department ED are working 247 and these funds are used to supply water coffee and snacks to be available in a convenient location to ensure that the doctors can stay in the ED.

This item represents memberships in professional societies for residents fellows and faculty which allow them to participate in collaborative education efforts nationally. A Subscription to an on line scheduling program allows the Chief residents to more efficiently ensure that the Emergency Department ED is adequately covered for patient safety and also allows for circadian rhythm scheduling which is critical to the physical and mental health of emergency providers. This system also allows the residents to ensure that each trainee has a similar schedule compared to others and provides data summaries which are critical for the accrediting body ACGME. Additionally subscriptions to educational programs allow residents to prepare and self-study for their future board certification examinations and also to practice medical Spanish a skill that makes their job in Southern California easier to perform and also makes them more marketable for future employment. Access to these subscriptions makes the program competitive nationally allowing the program to recruit highly qualified resident doctor to care for the patients in Los Angeles.

This item represents reimbursement for licensing fees of residents fellows and faculty which were not covered by their allocated stipend.

Team Building and Wellness: Some of these items could be seen as promotional as well. Each year the residents purchase logo jackets for the sixteen incoming interns to welcome them to the department and promote camaraderie. HEMEF also supports the rental of a venue for annual graduation ceremonies which includes teaching awards and gifts for the graduating residents chief residents and fellows. Funds are used to encourage residents to submit interesting and educational materials such as ECGs and radiographs to support everyones learning. Funds have also been used to reimburse residents in need for things like lost badges and tire repair.

This represents the purchase of training and educational equipment and textbooks. Some of the equipment is used to train and assess if first responders are performing adequate cardiopulmonary resuscitation. These data are being used to contribute to the body of literature in the area as well as provide feedback to providers improving education and patient care.

This cost is the reimbursement of unused grants to the Grantor. Funds were acquired just prior to COVID-19 from SAEM for a project that was unable to be conducted due to the pandemic. There was no cost to HEMEF for this and funds were returned.

These funds were used to: 1 Pay the HEMEF CFO $500 monthly to manage all of the reimbursements associated with the foundation. 2 Pay a clinical faculty member $1000 monthly to manage the new Social EM rotation which exposes the residents to specific care for underserved populations. 3 Fund a part-time research assistant who aids all of the PGY2 residents in getting trained through the Citi Human Subjects training through the IRB. This allows all residents to be prepared to take part in research if an opportunity arises.

Contribution to Sea Safe a Southern CA Science based 501c3 that uses education to promote ocean protection in the region