Children's Simulation Medicine and Patient Safety Fellowship

Emory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute to the excellence of our academic community.

Emory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute to the excellence of our academic community.

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University Department of Pediatrics are actively seeking a fellow for the Pediatric Simulation and Patient Safety Fellowship

Job Description (duties and responsibilities):

The Simulation and Safety Fellowship is based out of the Children’s Simulation Center as well as the Department of Pediatrics. This is a non- ACGME accredited research fellowship. The program offers specialized training in the principles and practice of medical simulation with a focus on training, human factors, system engineering, and patient safety.

The goal of the Simulation and patient Safety Fellowship is to provide exceptional training in the fundamentals of designing and delivering medical simulations, performing simulation based clinical systems testing, following up on changes made from system testing. The fellowship is designed to be tailored to the needs of our trainees. All fellows will receive broad-based training in simulation and patient safety, receive a reading list of key articles, and a scholarship oversight committee that will include experts from around the country to help steer their research or educational project.

The fellow will be supervised and evaluated on a regular basis by the Fellowship Program Director and Scholastic Oversight Committee.

Competency Based Goals and Objectives:

Fellow is expected to:

• Be present for 75% Simulation core team meetings
• Deliver simulation using traditional reflective debriefing and rapid cycle deliberate practice
• Organize and lead simulation in the fellow’s medical subspeciality when appropriate to improve care or patient safety
• Complete course work assigned
• Complete articles assigned in reading
• Submit an abstract to national or international meeting.

Knowledge acquisition will be reinforced with educational opportunities through didactic conferences, case presentation conferences, and quality improvement conferences.

The fellow is expected to complete at least one project/abstract/manuscript related to medical simulation use for education, training or patient safety by the end of the fellowship year.

Interpersonal and Communication

Skills:

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of developing and implanting successful simulations, fellows must be able to help drive formative meetings and execution of simulations related to their primary project.

Professionalism:

As part of the development of academic leaders in Simulation, the fellow is expected to be actively involved in the teaching of bedside staff, residents and medical students during the fellowship year.

Teaching occurs in the following settings:

• Inpatient setting
• Didactic conferences
• Simulation Lab

Systems-Based Practice:

The fellow will gain competence in Systems-Based Practice by participating in a number of multidisciplinary experiences. These include:

• Involvement in simulation, including helping to run simulation scenarios for Fellows and Advanced Practice Providers
• Responsibility for giving lectures twice a year for Simulation Educators, either on education day or at the educator meeting.
• Help create teaching scenarios for senior fellows and junior faculty
• Performing a needs assessment to determine simulation objectives
• Giving lectures to the residency if needed
• Participate in palliative care training for fellows to gain exposure to working with standardized patients.
• Organizing and arranging skills training sessions or workshops for trainees.

The fellow is responsible for completing the following education:

• Debriefing Academy Online Modules assigned by the program director
• Assisting in Simulation boot camp, ideally in their area of clinical expertise
• Assigned reading on simulation and patient safety.

There will be…