Academic Curriculum

PEM fellowship conferences occur every Wednesday with a rotating schedule of topics covered each week and all topics below are covered every month. Fellows are expected to attend 80% of these required conferences.

PEM simulation curriculum

• Monthly high-fidelity simulation with 2 PEM fellows as team leaders
• Opportunity to have participation of ED personnel (nurses, pharmacist, respiratory therapist) with use of the trauma rooms and equipment in the ED
  
  

PEM simulation courses 

• Regional Bootcamp: 3-day simulation bootcamp attended by 1st year PEM fellows
• Children’s Mercy Critical Care Simulation Bootcamp: Eight 4-hour sessions attended by 1st year fellows from PEM, Critical Care Medicine, and Hospital Medicine
• Cadaver Lab: 2 day session attended by 2nd year PEM fellows with EM residents to gain skills in low-frequency, high-risk procedures like advanced airway placement, pericardiocentesis, central lines, & chest tubes
  
  

PEM core curriculum

• Monthly didactics presented by PEM fellows, faculty, and subspecialty content experts
• Core Content Lectures encompass a 3-year curriculum designed to cover the required PEM content specified by the American Board of Pediatrics
• PREP Board Review Questions presented by PEM fellows
• Interesting Case Conference presentation of 1-2 cases by both PEM fellows & faculty with case discussion & brief learning points
• Radiology Cases presented quarterly by a pediatric radiologist utilizing case-based learning to emphasize core radiology topics for PEM providers
• Journal club presented monthly by 2 PEM fellows to PEM faculty and co-fellows
• Longitudinal Pediatric POCUS curriculum  
• PEM toxicology conference that covers toxicology content specified by the American Board of Pediatrics  

Patient Safety and Quality Improvement (PSQI) Conference".  

• Quarterly conference 
• Case summaries prepared by ED & Quality/Safety leadership
  
  

GME common fellowship curriculum

• Hospital-wide program to address topics common to all fellowship programs
• In-depth education for second and third year fellows
• Common Curriculum and Didactics