A pirate ship sailed into the yacht club: How we built a novel pediatric emergency medicine curriculum for an emergency medicine training program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) has seen little progression toward a standardized PEM educational framework. The 2018 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference on Advancing PEM Education addressed this gap in core EM education. Absent elements include a "broad needs assessment to identify and evaluate existing curricula and systems gaps in EM training" and a "clearly defined core PEM curriculum that unifies and drives the learning process." PEM education innovators were called to construct a "unified foundation in PEM education for all levels of emergency care" and to "promote innovation in teaching and learning strategies in curricula." We endeavored to meet this challenge at our institution.

Methods

The PEM curriculum design is based on the Kern

SUBMITTER: Andrada E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8325435 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature