A Symposium Success in Miami!
This year, we were delighted to welcome over 360 attendees and their families, alongside 40 sponsors and exhibitors, to our annual meeting held at the beautiful Eden Roc Miami Beach. Photos from the event are now available. Visit our photo gallery to find, share and save your favorite memories from Symposium by the Sea 2024. Use code 5188 to download photos.
To help us continue improving, we encourage all attendees to provide feedback through the CME evaluation survey, which has been emailed to all Symposium by the Sea 2024 registrants. If you did not receive the email with the survey link, please reach out to FCEP’s Education Director at dbennett@emlrc.org. Thank you for your participation and support, we look forward to seeing you at next year’s event!
Save the Date for SBS 2025: July 31 – August 3, 2025 at Fort Lauderdale Marriot Harbor!
2024 Resident Competition Winners
2024 Quiz Bowl Competition Winners
Champions: UCF/HCA Florida Healthcare GME (Greater Orlando/Osceola)
Second Place: Orlando Health
2024 Drop the Mic Competition Winners
First Place: “Communication about Communication: Approach to the Deaf Patient in the Emergency Department” By Drake Dixon, MD – UCF/HCA Florida Healthcare GME (Greater Orlando/Osceola)
Second Place: “Space Medicine” By Andrew Bobbett, MD – UCF/HCA Florida Healthcare GME (Greater Orlando/Osceola
Third Place: “My First Patient as a Doctor: A Guide to the Unexpected Critical Patient” By Jean Carlo Medina, MD – HCA Kendall
2024 SonoRace Competition Winners
Champions: Jackson Memorial
Second Place: HCA Orange Park
Best Costume: USF
2024 EM Research and Clinical Case Poster Competition Winners
Best Medical Student Project
First Place: “Turnaround Time for Time for Toxic Alcohol Testing Prolongs Hospital Length of Stay: A retrospective comparator study between two poison centers” By Steven Chen and Jacob Yudiono- USF Morsani College of Medicine
Second Place: “Recalibrating the HEART score with high sensitivity troponin: implications for rule-out decisions and guideline optimization in low risk chest pain patients.” By John Keefe- UF Health
Third Place: “Is r-TEG a predictor of critical illness in emergency department patients with GI gbleeds?” By Zachary Schwartz, Medical Student- USF MCOM, Presented by Nathan Lapaix, Medical Student- USF MCOM
Best Medical Student Case Report (NEW CATEGORY)
“Two Children with Neurologic Manifestations of Mycoplasma Pneumonia in the Pediatric ED.” By Kelsey Clabby, Medical Student, UCF
Best Resident Case Report
First Place: “Angioedema turned Aortic Dissection.” By Shivani Ruf- Orlando Health
Second Place: “A Good History Solves the Mystery – Thoracic Endometriosis.” By Ashley Wong- Broward Health
Third Place: “Bee Envenomation-Induced Transient Coagulopathy in a Trauma Patient: A Case Report” By Christopher Wallace- UCF/HCA-Ocala
Best Resident Project
First Place: “Standardizing Pediatric Asthma Management at Orlando Health Freestanding ED by Improving Utilization of the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children Asthma Guidelines: A Quality Improvement Project.” By Pooja Sarin, MD- Orlando Health
Second Place: “Am I Injured or Infarcted? Who Can Tell? BNP: hs-cTN Ratios May be a Useful Tool.” By Andrew Hood- UF Gainesville
Third Place
“Exhaled ETCO2 Measured at Triage is Associated with Positive Blood Cultures but Lactate is Not.” By Madison Rocetenwald- Orlando Health
Best Fellow Project
“Gastric Ultrasound for Aspiration Risk Determination (GUARD): Safer Sedation for Patients on GLP-1 Receptor Agonist” By Brandon Buchel, MD- Prior Ultrasound Fellow (Graduated June 2024), USF EM
2024 Case Presentation Competition
Best Presenter
“Neurosyphilis” by Sheila Mallenahalli, MD, PGY2 – University of Miami/ Jackson Memorial
Best Discussant
“A Sweet Case of Rash —Sweet Syndrome” by Rakael Brown, MD, PGY 2 – FSU/ Sarasota Memorial
Best Overall Program
FSU/ Sarasota Memorial
SBS 2024 Competitions
Emergency Medicine Research and Clinical Case Poster Competition
The poster session will be open to all medical students, emergency medicine residents, emergency medicine fellows, faculty and any practicing physician in Florida. Topics can include the broad range of issues involving emergency medicine practice, education research, innovations in education and clinical as well as basic science research.
Emergency Medicine Resident Case Presentation Conference (CPC)
Chair: Dr. Jennifer Jackson (Sollis Health)
The Case Presentation Conference Competition is open to all emergency medicine residents in Florida. Residents from each of the selected programs will deliver discussions of the initial approach, differential diagnosis and final impression of an unknown ED case from one of the other programs. Only one team per program will be permitted
Emergency Medicine Resident Quiz Bowl
Chairs: Dr. Erich Heine & Sara Baker (Orlando Health)
The Second Annual EM Quiz Bowl is open to all emergen
cy medicine residents in Florida in which programs gather for a competition focused on medical knowledge application in trivia and debate-style formats. Registration is limited to one team per program, three residents per team.
Drop the Mic Competition
Chair: Dr. Andy Little (AdventHealth)
The Inaugural Drop the Mic Competition is open to all medical students, emergency medicine residents, emergency medicine fellows, faculty, and any practicing physician in Florida. Speakers compete for a chance to win a coveted speaker position for SBS25! Up to 15 selected participants will give an exciting lecture in fewer than 6 minutes with automatically advancing slides.
*NEW* Sonorace Ultrasound Competition
Chairs: Drs. Taryn Hoffman (HCA Orange Park) & Diana Mora (UCF/HCA North Florida)
This exciting event allows residents to showcase their ultrasound skills and compete for top honors. Resident competitors can be identified at a later date: Registration is limited to one team per program, three residents per team!
SBS 2024 Accreditation Statements:
ACCME: The Emergency Medicine Learning and Resource Center (EMLRC) is accredited
by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide
continuing medical education for physicians.
EMLRC designates this Live activity for a maximum of 16.5 AMA PRA Category 1
Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their
participation in the activity.
FPA: The Emergency Medicine Learning and Resource Center (EMLRC) is approved as a
provider of continuing medical education by the Board of Florida Physician Assistants;
Provider #50715. A maximum of 16.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ will be provided by
EMLRC.
AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA
PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME or a recognized
state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 16.5 hours of
Category 1 credit for completing this activity.
FBON: The Emergency Medicine Learning and Resource Center (EMLRC) is approved as a
provider of nursing education by the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider #2731. Up to
16.5 nursing contact hours will be provided
In Case You Missed It….
Symposium by the Sea 2023
August 3-6, 2023
Hyatt Regency Coconut Point in Bonita Springs, FL
The FCEP SBS Planning Committee welcomed about 285 attendees and their
families, plus 40 sponsors and exhibitors to this year’s annual meeting. EM physicians, residents, nurses, administrators, medical students and other allied health professionals gathered together for networking and educational opportunities with a high-demand for information regarding the ever-changing EM practice environment. We hope you enjoyed your time at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point and encourage you to leave us feedback through your CME evaluation.
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Important Contacts
Tatiana Martin, Program & Marketing Manager
P: 407.281.7396 ext. 228
tmartin@emlrc.org
Diane Bennett, Director of Education & Events
407.281.7396 ext. 222
dbennett@emlrc.org