This educational activity is designed to address a lack of knowledge and a lack of competence in Emergency Medicine, specifically trauma, across the armed forces of the United States.Research presentations are intended to highlight some of those gaps, and attendees to encouraged to critically evaluate each research presentation that is given, identify gaps in the presentation and in the research, and inform the researcher of their evaluation.The intimate atmosphere of this local forum will encourage those with limited knowledge and competency in these skills to attempt to make these evaluations and through practice enhance their knowledge and competence.Further, by listening to the comments of others, attendees will see real-time examples of how others perform this skill.By having a live exchange of ideas the skill can be further refined and practiced, since questions can be immediately discussed.

A structured presentation format will be used for the morning research presentation session.Discussion will follow each presentation with interactive audience participation.Each research presentation will be critiqued and scored by three emergency medicine judges, including the visiting professors.The morning session will also feature a visiting professor’s presentation on a current topic in Department of Defense Research. The afternoon session will be two additional presentations by visiting professor’s on the costs/benefits and processes of establishing a collaborative training environment in clinical trauma care between civilian institutions and military units.