The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship curriculum takes an innovative approach to ensure all program milestones and educational goals are met, but with a particular focus on the venues and formats that will actually lead to sustained education. Feedback from fellows is taken very seriously and the curriculum regularly modified to reflect that process. The curriculum is divided into several longitudinal series that coalesce to form a well-rounded pediatric emergency medicine curriculum.
Curriculum Components
- Grand rounds speakers: Fellows recruit and invite speakers who are provided funding.
- Core medical emergency series.
- Core surgical emergency series.
- Simulation series: Series takes place at the Dell Children’s Simulation Center, a dedicated, new, high-fidelity training facility at Dell Children’s Medical Center.
- Research series: Speakers, including grand rounds national guests, walk fellows through every step of a research project.
- Board review: Reviews include prizes, an audience response system and asynchronous learning through the Rosh Review.
- Electrocardiogram series: A one-hour review of ECGs from the emergency department and outpatients with nationally renowned pediatric cardiology electrophysiology attendings. This series complements our core medical series in the management of complex cardiac patients and ties with our expansive pediatric congenital heart program at Dell Children’s Medical Center.
- Radiology series: A highly successful, topic-focused, one-hour series with a pediatric radiologist reviewing real cases from the emergency department.
- Heme/onc series: A one-hour review of ED cases targeting heme/onc emergencies, reviewing the latest evidence, and identifying quality improvement opportunities for these patients in the department.
- Administrative/quality improvement series.
- Ultrasound series: Series includes live models, bedside training with multiple types of US devices and trainers and expert faculty.
- Toxicology series.
- Morbidity and mortality.
- Hospital interdisciplinary M&M.
- Communication series from faculty from the Academy of Communication in Healthcare.
- Fellows-as-teachers curriculum.
Fellowship Guiding Principles
Service
Provide the best available clinical care for all children and families in the Central Texas area. Serve as a welcoming referral center and source of expertise in emergency pediatric care for surrounding health care providers and institutions.
Research
Serve as the catalyst for high-quality and meaningful pediatric research in the field of pediatric emergency medicine. All fellows participate in multiple research projects and each serves as primary investigator for a structured hypothesis-driven project that aims to answer important questions to advance care.
Advocacy
Serve as advocates inside and outside the hospital for the most vulnerable children and improving access to high-quality care. Multiple global health opportunities are available to trainees at no additional expense.
Scholarship
Serve as excellent teachers and resources for all trainees and health care providers, promoting current standards in pediatric emergency care in classroom, clinical and simulation environments. Fellows are regularly provided opportunities as authors, developing influential scholarly work.
Balance
Present a balanced, well-rounded and thorough training experience that is flexible and always able to keep in mind the interest and needs of each individual fellow. Success is helping each fellow achieve their own aspiration of what it means to be a productive member of the pediatric emergency medicine community.