Approved Instructional Resources – Professional (AIR Pro Series)

Module	Date Released	Topic	Recommended III Hours
01	Sep 2015	Cardiovascular Module	2.5
02	Nov 2015	Trauma Module	2.5
03	Jan 2016	Pediatrics Module	3.5
04	Apr 2016	Critical Care (Part 1) Module	2.5
05	Jul 2016	Critical Care (Part 2) Module	3
06	Sep 2016	Toxicology (Part 1) Module	3
07	Dec 2016	Toxicology (Part 2) Module	4
08	Apr 2017	Gastroenterology Module	3.5
09	Nov 2017	Neurology Module	2.5

Take the ALiEMU AIR Pro Quizzes for III EM Conference Credit.

This series has concluded as of January 1, 2018.

Why create an AIR-Pro Series?

We created this series because the AIR Series has clearly filled a niche for III credit at over 65 U.S. EM residency programs. Many programs however struggle to give credit to the upper level resident completing the same material as the junior resident. We seek to use our expertise to determine upper level concepts and assist residency programs to promote asynchronous learning, online education, as well as reward residents who already effectively utilize blogs and podcasts in their lifelong learning plans.

To do this, we searched educational blogs and podcasts in a slightly different manner than the AIR Series.

	AIR Series	AIR-Pro Series
Date of blog post or podcast publication	Within 12 months of search date	Anytime
Included list of blogs and podcasts for search	Only the top 50 websites per the Social Media Index	A much broader list of blogs and podcasts maintained at FOAMSearch.net
Included topics	All topics within a large subject area, as listed on the CORD Tests schedule (e.g. pulmonary, gastrointestinal, …)	A limited number of very focused, advanced-level clinical queries within the featured subject area

How do we select the articles?

For each major subject category, 5 EM Chief Residents propose 3-5 advanced clinical questions. Using FOAMsearch.net, an exhaustive comprehensive search is performed, finding all posts answering the clinical questions. These relevant posts are scored by 8 reviewers, among the AIR-Pro Board, using a revised version of the AIR Series scoring instrument. Depending on the redundancy of the highest scoring posts, 2-3 of these are selected to address each preselected question. To decrease any obvious bias, members of the AIR-Pro Board recuse themselves from evaluating posts they wrote or were directly involved in writing.

The AIR-Pro scoring instrument looks at five measurement outcomes, each using a Likert 7-point scale:

Recency
Content Accuracy
Educational Utility for the Senior Resident
Evidence Based Medicine
Referenced

How is the scoring different from AIR?

There are 2 areas where the AIR-Pro scoring instrument differs from the previous AIR Series instrument.

We replaced the Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine (BEEM) domain with Recency. Based on our experience with the AIR Series, we observed that many high-quality, advanced-level blogs and podcasts were older than 12 months old. This 12 month cut-off was created partly to avoid impractically long lists of blog posts and podcasts to review each month. Because the AIR-Pro Series asks very focused questions, we removed this timeframe cutoff. Instead, more recently published posts were slightly favored with higher awarded points.
The Educational Utility domain specifically targeted senior residents and not just residents in general in order to identify more advanced level educational content.

AIR-Pro Stamp of Approval and Honorable Mentions

In an effort to truly emphasize the highest quality posts, we have two subsets of recommended resources. The AIR-Pro stamp of approval will only be given to posts scoring above a strict scoring cut-off of ≥28 points (out of 35 total), based on our AIR-Pro scoring instrument, which is slightly different from our original AIR Series scoring instrument. The other subset is for “Honorable Mention” posts. These posts have been flagged by and agreed upon by AIR-Pro Board members as worthwhile, accurate, unbiased, appropriately referenced, and have a score of 26-27. All posts will still be part of the quiz needed to obtain III credit. To decrease the repetitive nature of posts relating to these advanced concepts, we did not always include every post found that met the score of ≥28 points.

More background information about III

Read more at the AIR Series informational page.

I am an EM resident desiring III credit for AIR-Pro content

Please speak with your program director about this possibility. If you are told that the AIR-Pro series is approved for credit at your institution, complete the end-of-module quiz below and your participation will be recorded for your program director. Of course, you are always welcome to take the quiz for your own learning purposes.

I am an EM residency program interested in implementing the AIR-Pro series for III credit

If you already have administrative access to the Google Drive document with all resident participants in the AIR Series, you will automatically have access to the AIR Pro Administrative Spreadsheet as well. If you do not, please contact us for log-in access.

Frequency of AIR-Pro Series Modules

We plan to release new curated lists approximately every 2 months.

Members of AIR-Pro Board

Annalee Baker MD, Assistant Program Director, Aventura Hospital and Medical Center
Rob Bryant MD, Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine
Robert Cooney MD, Associate Program Director, Geisinger Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Michael Craddick DO, Chief Resident, University of Illinois COM at Peoria
George Hughes MD, Chief Resident, University of Illinois at Chicago
Sam Ghali MD, Emergency Medicine Faculty, University of Kentucky Medical Center
Jonathan Giordano MD, Chief Resident, Maimonides Medical Center
Michelle Lin MD, ALiEM Editor-in-Chief, UCSF Associate Professor and Academy Endowed Chair for EM Education
Travis Manasco MD, Chief Resident, Boston Medical Center
Sean McGann MD, Chief Resident, Maimonides Medical Center
Meg Pusateri MD, Chief Resident, University of Louisville
Lynn Roppolo, MD, Associate Program Director and Associate Professor, University of Texas Southwestern Department of EM
Salim Rezaie MD, Creator & Founder R.E.B.E.L. E.M, Clinical Assistant Professor EM/IM, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Jeff Riddell MD, Education Fellow, University of Washington
Audrey Sanford MD, Chief Resident, University of Illinois at Chicago
Nana Sefa MD, Chief Residenty, William Beaumont Hospital
Seth Trueger MD, Emergency Physician, Northwestern University
J. Scott Wieters MD, Associate Editor R.E.B.E.L. E.M, Co-Host EMStud podcast, Director of Undergraduate Medical Education for The Texas A&M EM Residency Program
Fareen Zaver MD, ALiEM AIR-PRO Lead Editor and Emergency Physician, University of Calgary