COMMITTEE, ACADEMY, IG REPORTS SIMULATION ACADEMY We've Had a Busy Few Months! • Our new website has launched! • Emergency Medicine Resident Simulation Curriculum for Pediatrics (EM ReSCu Peds), a FREE openaccess eBook containing sixteen cases to address critical pediatric topics for EM residents through simulation has been published. Download it here! • In conjunction with the CORD Simulation Community, we are excited to offer a simulation consulting service to help troubleshoot simulation education and curricular challenges. (For details, see below) For more Simulation Academy updates, including upcoming events, follow us on twitter: @SAEMSimAcademy
Introducing the Simulation Consult Service Educational Dilemmas
You are the director of simulation at a newly minted emergency medicine residency program. You have developed a longitudinal simulation curriculum for your residency program, but you wonder what other programs around the country are doing. You are the director of simulation for an established emergency medicine residency program. Your department chair approaches you because there have been multiple residents involved in central line safety issues in the past six months. You are the associate program director for an established emergency medicine residency program. You have a resident who is lagging his peers in the clinical setting. You would like to put together a remediation program with a simulation component.
Introduction
Simulation is a powerful educational tool universally embraced across emergency medicine residency programs. Successful deployment of simulation curricula depends on a range of factors, including understanding the specific needs of the trainee, the available resources, and the learning environment at each program.
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“Simulation educators are confronting new and evolving challenges as they strive to provide high-quality education to trainees, such as the need to evaluate trainees based upon competency-based milestones, demand for accountability and documented assessments, and rapid advances in simulation technology.” Simulation educators are confronting new and evolving challenges as they strive to provide high-quality education to trainees, such as the need to evaluate trainees based upon competency-based milestones, demand for accountability and documented assessments, and rapid advances in simulation technology. However, training programs vary widely in available faculty and simulation resources, and it is common for residency programs to have only a handful of simulation-trained educators practicing in relative isolation. As leaders in the SAEM Simulation Academy, we believe that all simulation educators benefit from a forum to share experiences, expertise, and ideas on how to approach common educational dilemmas. Increased collaboration results in increased professional engagement, augmented creativity, and improved outcomes for our trainees.
The Simulation Consult Service
The Simulation Consult Service was developed as a collaboration between the SAEM Simulation Academy and the CORD Simulation Community of Practice. This service, which is free to members, provides solutions to common educational dilemmas faced by programs when designing and implementing simulation curriculum. We strive to provide a personalized approach to each educational dilemma, integrating best practices in healthcare simulation and medical education.
How It Works
The SAEM Simulation Academy welcomes new consults by e-mailing the Simulation
Consult Service leadership at simconsults@ saem.org. Once submitted, consults go to a team of simulation educators in the SAEM Simulation Academy, who systematically review each submission and provide feedback, ideas, and resources for taking the next step in curriculum innovation.
Educational Solutions
You reach out to the Simulation Consult Service to see how other established emergency medicine programs are incorporating simulation into residency education. SAEM Simulation Academy members put together an outline of common elements of longitudinal simulation programs at their training sites and provide targeted feedback on your curriculum plan. Central line training is a critical element of emergency medicine residency training. Multiple members of SAEM Simulation Academy have experience with central line training programs from their respective institutions, including strategies for monitoring trainee progress. These suggestions allow you to kickstart your own surveillance and remediation program. Simulation can be a valuable component of clinical remediation, as it allows development of clinical reasoning skills without additional patient risk. Members of SAEM Simulation Academy share examples of prior remediation programs at their residency programs, including outcomes and pitfalls encountered. You build upon their experiences to develop a customized remediation program for your at-risk trainee.
