Annual Courses

Anesthesiology: CA-1 Orientation

The course introduces first-year anesthesia residents to the basics of high-fidelity simulation as well as the fundamentals of clinical anesthesia. This hands-on orientation includes such topics as anesthesia machine checkout, pre-operative assessment, venous and arterial cannulation, anesthesia induction, maintenance and emergency, point- of-car ultrasound techniques and common intraoperative and postoperative complications.

Course director: Alecia Stein, MD

Anesthesiology: CA-3 Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)

The practice OSCE course is designed to prepare graduating anesthesiology residents for the OSCE component of the ABA applied examination. It is led by anesthesiology faculty and aims to replicate many aspects of the OSCE experience and includes practice OSCE stations and examiner feedback.

Course director: Alecia Stein, MD

Emergency Medicine Boot Camp for Interns

The course introduces first-year emergency medicine residents to the proper performance of ultrasound guided central venous catheterization, abdominal paracentesis, thoracentesis, and lumbar puncture as well as an airway and suture workshop. The training includes proper patient positioning, aseptic technique, recognition of complications and corrective maneuvers, and a hands-on practical component.

Course directors: Christopher Freeman, MD and Patricia Panakos, MD

Emergency Medicine Boot Camp for Medical Students

During this course, graduating medical students practice essential skills for their first year as residents in Emergency Medicine. The students practice responding to a variety of simulated clinical scenarios that are common within the emergency department. The scenarios include surgical, medical, pediatric, and trauma cases.

Course director: Kelly Medwid, MD

OB/GYN Boot Camp for Medical Students

The aim of this course is to prepare graduating medical students for their first year as residents in Obstetrics and Gynecology. It offers hands-on practice in surgical and clinical procedures by incorporating obstetric ultrasound, vaginal delivery, suturing and knot tying, cervical exams as well as handling surgical instruments.

Course directors: Ian Bishop, MD and Lydia Fein, MD

Patient Safety Course for Interns

Each year over 200 new JMH interns attend mandatory patient safety training prior to taking on specialty specific responsibilities in their departments. The Center for Patient Safety has developed an innovative curriculum to impart competencies related to their role in preventing medical errors. In the course, which runs during the first week of the intern year, the following competencies are specifically addressed: 1) handoffs; 2) teamwork and communication; 3) delivering bad news; 4) identify and review the elements of a Root Cause Analysis (RCA); and 5) disclosure of an adverse event.

Course directors: Yvonne Diaz, MD and Alecia Stein, MD

Pediatric Boot Camp for Medical Students

During this course, graduating medical students practice essential skills for their first year as residents in Pediatrics. The skills include bag-mask Ventilation, IV placement and lumbar puncture. Also, various simulated cases are presented in a RCDP instructional format. Rapid-Cycle Deliberate Practice (RCDP) is a simulation-based instructional strategy that focuses on rapid acquisition of necessary skills. It provides gradually more challenging simulation rounds in rapid repetition with brief direct expert feedback throughout the session, contrary to traditional debriefing where learning is taught after the scenario. In recent years, RCDP’s use in training emergency clinical situations has been associated with improvement in team performance in several different studies.

Course director: Monica Alba-Sandoval, MD

Pediatric Boot Camp for Interns

Interns practice techniques for Intravenous (IV), Intraosseous Infusion (IO), and Lumbar Puncture (LP) procedures on realistic pediatric task trainers. The interactive training session allows small groups of interns to rotate among the various specialized trainers to acquire skill acquisition while under the direction and guidance of pediatric faculty.

Course director: Monica Alba-Sandoval, MD

Transition to Clerkships Bootcamp

A key inflection point of the NextGenMD curriculum, this one-week course for the 2nd year medical students (approximately 200) is geared towards teaching patient safety within the health care field. The Bootcamp sessions provide students with the requisite knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes to prevent adverse medical events. The following competencies are addressed throughout the week and include: 1) recognizing an unstable patient and calling for help; 2) teamwork and communication; 3) situational awareness in the context of a patient encounter; and 4) identifying ways to improve patient outcomes.

Course director: Alecia Stein, MD

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