Didactics
Emergency Medicine resident education mandates the incorporation of a wide range of medical knowledge into the clinical setting. Didactic time serves as a shared base for such material, in addition to one’s individual learning.
- Protected Time: 4-5 hours of protected conference time is held each week on Wednesday mornings from 8am to 1pm.
- “Hybrid” format: We believe that all residents do not learn the same way. Therefore, we have adopted a "hybrid" learning format whereby multiple different teaching modalities are employed including:
- Small-group discussions
- Traditional lecture format
- Interactive presentations
- Case conferences
- Simulation
- Skills workshops
- Flipped classroom methodologies
- Modular curriculum: Core content is covered in a 4-week, modular format so that all content within the block have a consistent theme. The curriculum is spread over a 2-year period so that all content repeated twice over the course of one’s residency training.
- Variety in speakers: Conferences are primarily faculty-driven, with interspersed resident lectures. Additionally, we invite guest speakers to give consultant lectures and Grand Rounds.
- Joint conferences: We conduct several joint conferences (lectures and workshops) with faculty and/or residents from other specialties including Trauma Surgery, General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Critical Care, etc.
- Board preparation:Prep for the ABEM certifying exam is typically done twice/year via mock exam sessions. Written board and in-training exam prep is primarily asynchronous via Rosh Review and Peer (provided by the program), in addition to targeted sessions in February of each year.
- Focused conferences: Monthly morbidity and mortality conferences and journal club add to the variety of content presented to residents.
- Skills sessions: Regular procedural workshops, EKG and Radiology skills workshops and simulation sessions round off our hybrid format.
- Individualized interactive instruction: Twenty percent of our conference offerings are presented outside the classroom setting (1 hour per 4 hours of in-classroom time). These assignments are viewed asynchronously and then residents come back to conference to discuss them further as a group, with an additional option to discuss the individually with a program director. This format utilizes journal articles and online FOAMed resources such as ALiEM, RebelEM, etc.
- Morning report: On all weekdays except Wednesdays we conduct a resident-led 30-minute morning report in a conference room near the ED. This is required for all clinical residents/faculty only and is setup as a case-based discussion with focused teaching points.
