DIDACTIC CURRICULM

RESIDENT CONFERENCE: Our didactic curriculum utilizes a combination of educational strategies to create an interactive and engaging learning environment for residents. Our didactics involve asynchronous online learning, lectures by EM faculty and guest speakers, small groups sessions, case-based learning, interactive games, simulation, and bioskills.

 

SIMULATION: monthly sessions for all residents at the simulation center. Residents are exposed to critically ill adult and pediatric high-fidelity simulation patients and expected to manage them in a controlled observed environment, allowing residents to even become comfortable managing pathologies that are less infrequently encountered in the ER. These cases are followed by formal discussions and individualized feedback sessions to foster personal resident growth.

 

BIOSKILLS: quarterly sessions at the Bioskills center. This is a fresh frozen cadaver lab, where residents practice and become comfortable performing all emergency medicine procedures on cadavers, including: intubations, cricothyroidotomies, central lines, chest tubes, pig tails, pericardiocentesis, open thoracotomy, lateral canthotomy, arthrocentesis, etc.

 

M&M Conference: occurs monthly. Residents and faculty will present the cases of patients who died or who had unusual outcomes, in order to discuss alternative evaluation and management options and improve future care.

 

GRAND ROUNDS: monthly conference in which local and national guest speakers discuss topics important to the practicing emergency medicine physician.

 

CASE PRESENTATION CONFERENCE: residents will present cases of patients they have seen in the emergency department.  Diagnostic and management options will be discussed with other residents and emergency medicine faculty.