Curriculum Overview Our curriculum is designed to expose residents to the full range of topics, experiences, technical procedures and concepts relevant to Emergency Medicine that will prepare them to meet our residency’s educational goals that are based on the ACGME Core Competencies as listed below:
- Provide patient care that is compassionate, appropriate and effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health.
- Provide medical knowledge about established and evolving biomedical, clinical, and cognate sciences and the application of this knowledge to patient care.
- Provide practice-based learning and improvement that involves investigation and evaluation of the resident’s own patient care, appraisal, and assimilation of scientific evidence, and improvements in patient care.
- Demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills that result in effective information exchange and teaming with patients, their families, and other health professionals.
- Demonstrate the fundamental qualities of professionalism, as manifested through a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles, and sensitivity to a diverse patient population.
- Develop systems-based practice, as manifested by actions that demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system for health care, and the ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that is of optimal value.
The guide for our curriculum is the 2007 Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Our curriculum is divided into an experiential curriculum (on-and-off service rotations), a didactic curriculum (conferences and lectures), a literature-based curriculum (required reading list based on the major emergency medicine textbooks) and special training in emergency medicine (ACLS, NALS, PALS, ATLS, EMS, and research).
This combination of teaching modalities provides our residents with instruction in varying formats and maximizes our residents' exposure to the concepts and fund of knowledge that constitutes emergency medicine. Learning is thereby reinforced as each resident is taught the Model of the Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine through a multi-faceted approach.
In addition to preparing residents for emergency medicine practice, our curriculum also emphasizes acquisition of basic skills in assessing the medical literature, understanding concepts in clinical epidemiology and appreciating the role of emergency physicians in the formulation and implementation of health care policy.
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