Creation of a standardized pediatric emergency medicine simulation curriculum for emergency medicine residents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The majority of children seeking care in emergency departments are seen by general emergency medicine (EM) residency program graduates. Throughout training, EM residents manage fewer critically ill pediatric patients compared to adults, and the exposure to children with illness and injury requiring emergent assessment and management is often limited and sporadic across training sites. This report describes the creation of a robust set of simulation cases for EM trainees incorporating topics identified during a previous modified Delphi study to improve their pediatric acute care knowledge and skills.

Methods

All 30 pediatric EM topics and 19/26 procedures previously identified as "must be taught by simulation" to EM residents were mapped to 15 simulation case topic

SUBMITTER: Burns R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8489268 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature