Sabbatical Programs and the Status of Academic Emergency Medicine: A Survey

The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) commissioned a survey in 1998 to describe sabbatical programs, academic rank, and tenure, and to shed light on factors affecting the continuum of faculty development, as a context for evaluating the potential importance of emergency medicine (EM) sabbatical programs.The chairs of 120 EM residency programs were surveyed.The response rate was 90%. Of 108 responses, 44 were academic EM departments...