Simulation & Safety

Welcome .

We are pleased to offer a one year fellowship in Medical Simulation and Patient Safety, and we recruit one fellow annually. In addition to developing a broad portfolio of simulation cases, the sim fellow teaches at our annual cadaver lab, leads wilderness medicine simulation, and attends a prestigious simulation instructor training course.

The fellowship largely focuses on resident education, and the fellow plays an important role in the educational design process. In addition, the fellow leads simulation sessions for both medical students and emergency medicine faculty.

MedStar is a large, complex healthcare system hosting nearly 100 training programs, and our fellow has opportunities to teach, collaborate with, and learn from simulation experts in a diverse array of medical specialties and related disciplines.

Our fellow works directly with patient safety and human factors-focused EM faculty, who are leaders at the National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, an organization with national and worldwide expertise in patient safety and with a healthy portfolio of federally funded research projects.

Information .

Eligibility

Clinical

Program

Eligibility

Clinical

Program

Mentorship .

Our fellow will be mentored by our core Emergency Medicine Residency and Simulation faculty to learn how to use simulation effectively in education. They will be involved in all aspects of Emergency Medicine simulation:

TEACHING EM RESIDENTS

Full Simulation Days with all EM Residents – focus on Team Training and Procedural Skills
Individualized resident simulation days – focus on mastery of procedural skills and critical thinking
Simulation Case Conference during EM lecture days
ACGME Milestones Procedural and Scenario testing
ACGME Individualized Interactive Instruction – Additional Procedural Skill Teaching Sessions offered to residents on lecture days
Other large scale EM simulation events such as Wilderness Day, Disaster simulations, and SimWars
Design 12 simulation cases to be submitted during the year which will be a part of the Fellow’s portfolio.

TEACHING 3RD AND 4TH YEAR GEORGETOWN MEDICAL STUDENTS

Help to further integrate medical student safety curriculum with simulation -assist with existing 4th year medical student safety case and expand to third year medical students
Procedural Skills development
Develop a case to be run during medical student clerkship incorporating team-based learning and safety

TEACHING MEP FACULTY

Assist with the design and implementation of an ongoing faculty simulation curriculum to regularly review and refresh procedural and other critical skills

WORK WITH OTHER MEDSTAR SIMULATION PROGRAMS / SPECIALTIES

There are many opportunities to participate in our MedStar-wide Critical Care “Code Blue” Refreshers, Critical Care Simulations, General Surgery Simulations, Pediatric Code Simulations, and our Obstetrics “MOST” program for high-risk scenarios
Work with our Georgetown/MedStar EM Ultrasound and Sports Medicine fellowship programs to enhance their simulation education and training
Run Crisis Resource Management Cases with multidisciplinary teams

Other Opportunities .

INNOVATION

Develop expertise in medical simulation high-fidelity mannequins, task trainers, and moulage
Work with our simulation innovation team to create a model or improve on an existing training device
Create an instructional video for learners that focuses on a procedure, team training, and debriefing techniques

RESEARCH OR SCHOLARLY PROJECT

Design either a simulation-based research project or scholarly project of publishable quality
Statistical support provided by the MedStar office of Graduate Medical Education
MedStar National Center for Human factors in Health Care is a valuable resource available to our fellow for their project

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

Attend the Center for Medical Simulation Instructor Course in Boston
Our fellow will be well prepared to take the Society of Simulation in Health Care Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator exam
Opportunities to participate in regular faculty development opportunities offered through MedStar Emergency Physicians, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, and the Georgetown University School of Medicine

JOURNAL CLUB

Bi-annual Simulation Journal Club with articles selected by simulation and safety fellow

EVALUATION

Regular meetings with simulation leadership team
Case development mentored by simulation leadership team
Case scenarios and debriefing supervised by simulation leadership team with directed feedback immediately afterwards

OPERATIONS

The fellow will learn many areas of simulation lab operations during the fellowship