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Off‐service Resident Education in the Emergency Department: Outline of a National Standardized Curriculum
Author(s) -
Kessler Chad S.,
Marcolini Evie G.,
Schmitz Gillian,
Gerardo Charles J.,
Burns Glenn,
DelliGatti Brian,
Marco Catherine A.,
Manthey David E.,
Gutman Deborah,
Jobe Kathleen,
Younggren Bradley N.,
Stettner Ted,
Sokolove Peter E.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00605.x
Subject(s) - medicine , curriculum , specialty , emergency department , mandate , medical education , service (business) , core curriculum , graduate medical education , resource (disambiguation) , nursing , family medicine , accreditation , pedagogy , psychology , computer network , economy , political science , computer science , law , economics
Although many residency programs mandate at least one rotation in emergency medicine (EM), to the best of our knowledge, a standardized curriculum for emergency department (ED) rotations for “off‐service” residents has not been developed. As a result, the experiences of these residents in the ED tend to vary during their rotations. To design an off‐service EM curriculum, we adopted Kern’s six‐step approach to curriculum development as a conceptual framework. The resulting program encompasses clinical experience and didactic sessions through which residents are trained in core topics and skills. This knowledge will be applicable in the clinical settings in which residents will continue to train and ultimately practice their specialty. It is flexible enough to be applicable and implementable without being limited by resource availability or faculty strengths.