Applied Project in Academic Medicine

Transformation of the Critical Care Unit Curriculum for Interns at Duke Regional Hospital

• Link:              https://intranet.dm.duke.edu/hospitals/drh/drhccu/SitePages/CCURotation.aspx 

•                        (secured to Duke Intranet specific users)

• Snap Shots of the website.

• Agreement.

• Location:      Duke Regional Hospital, Durham, NC.

• Dates:            January 2015 - current date.

• Objectives:    

  • Establishment of a transformed curriculum for Critical Care Unit rotation for Medical Interns.

  • Design curricular activities and implement them.

  • Define maintenance plan for the curriculum.

  • Follow up, addressing feedback and reflections from residents, fellows and faculty.

• Supervised by:

  • The Internal Medicine Residency Training Program Director.

  • The Critical Care Unit Director.

  • The Pulmonary and Critical Care Division Chief, at DRH.

• Administrative Responsibilities: Maintenance of curricular activities and maintenance of the website.

• Educational Responsibilities: Updating content, management of multi-directional feedback (from residents, fellows and faculty) 

• and suggestions.

Thoughts from Leadership

Reflection:

    I had a different research project that I wanted to implement during the time period of this course. Unfortunately, logistics and restrictions, in addition to different directions of my clinical training requirements, I diverted to build this website. There was a need to have references for interns in medicine. My skills in designing websites were limited. I learned a lot through this project on how to apply curricular designs principles, include necessary basic points in topics and use website techniques for easy delivery and access to learners (residents) and teachers (fellows and faculty members).

Updated @July 2015