Pediatric emergency medicine fellows have the opportunity to broaden their clinical knowledge and acquire skills necessary for effective teaching in a variety of settings. In addition to weekly fellows’ conferences that cover a broad curriculum of clinical knowledge, educational strategies and clinical research techniques, fellows also participate in the following educational experiences:
- Certificate OR master’s program in medical education, clinical and translational research, or public health, completed over the three years of fellowship and fully-funded
- Duke University’s “How to Teach Evidence Based Clinical Practice” workshop
- National Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship conference
- Difficult Airway Course
- Opportunity to become a certified PALS instructor
- Opportunity to become a simulation facilitator
Throughout the pediatric emergency medicine fellowship, trainees have multiple opportunities to become expert educators. The fellows participate, with guidance, in teaching multiple conferences, including:
- Divisional journal club
- Divisional research conference
- Toxicology conference
- Ultrasound conference
- Board review
- Case conference
- University of Cincinnati combined EM / PEM conference
- Regional EMS conferences
- Combined PEM / Radiology conference
- Combined PEM / PICU conference