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Emergency Medicine Residency Curricular Innovations: Creating a Virtual Emergency Medicine Didactic Conference
Author(s) -
Rotoli Jason,
Bodkin Ryan,
Pereira Joseph,
Adler David,
Lou Valerie,
Moriarty Jessica,
Williams Jennifer,
Nobay Flavia
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
aem education and training
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.49
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2472-5390
DOI - 10.1002/aet2.10477
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , adaptation (eye) , curriculum , social distance , medical education , forcing (mathematics) , medicine , psychology , pedagogy , virology , disease , pathology , climatology , neuroscience , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , geology
Currently, there is a pandemic forcing social distancing and, consequently, traditional in‐person education must shift to a virtual curriculum to protect all parties and continue professional development. Recognizing that not all emergency medicine (EM) content can be taught through a virtual platform, we propose a model for nearly all EM resident didactic conference adaptation to a virtual format to meet the needs of the adult learner while protecting all participants from the current coronavirus pandemic.