Educational Initiative Editor

Term: Two years – in cycle with the new editorial leadership (2017 – January 2019)

Description:
The Education Initiative Editor role is a great opportunity to be an active member with the Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society and contribute to the education of CCAS members, colleagues and trainees. The expectation is to help advance our education by providing input to the CCAS website, ensuring a weekly question with explanation and references, development of a poll of month and working together with the Newsletter editorial team to assure relevant and up-to-date content for the semiannual publication of our Newsletter.

In regards to the “Question of the Week”, the expectation is one question per week (52 questions per year) and a monthly poll that will lead to a discussion among members or within your own institution. All questions and polls will be reviewed and edited by Dr. Viviane Nasr who has taken on this role for the past two years and Dr. James DiNardo who is an ABA board examiner with experience in question writing and editing.

This position is important for the fulfillment of the education mission of our society and a role that requires time commitment, dedication and good communication skills. It is expected at the end of the 2-year term that he/she will to continue advancing in the editorial ranks of the Newsletter.

Those interested in the position please contact Kim Battle at kim@societyhq.com with a description about yourself and your institution.

Guidelines for Contributors

CCAS questions
The different types of weekly questions include the themes below. Ideally, each theme should be covered once a month leading to four different types of questions per month.

  • ECG
  • Imaging (CXR, ECHO)
  • Anatomy/Physiological
  • Clinical scenario

CCAS question outline
Guidelines for contributors.

Editors: Viviane G. Nasr and James A. DiNardo

Question format is based on the ABA format. All questions should be multiple-choice, single-best answer consisting of a question stem followed by four options and a keyword. A thorough explanation and references should be provided for each question.  A question stem should be concise, clear, grammatically correct, meaningful in and of itself, and pose a definite problem. The associated question requires reasonable knowledge to answer.

There should be one unambiguous correct answer that is easily validated. Generally, the set of options for an item should all be similar in length, comprise one category (drugs, procedures, diagnoses, etc.), have the same grammatical construction, and be grammatically consistent with the stem. All incorrect options, or distractors, should be plausible and indicative of typical errors. If options are numbers, they should be presented in ascending or descending order.

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