Welcome to the BayCare Health System Emergency Medicine Residency Program! Our dynamic and comprehensive curriculum spans 18 months, repeating twice over the three-year training period, and covers the breadth of the Model of Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine. This curriculum is designed to ensure our residents are thoroughly prepared for all aspects of emergency medicine through an innovative, interactive, and engaging educational experience.
Our protected weekly academic half-days are the cornerstone of our program, offering four-to-five hours per week of synchronous content and discussions, complemented by interactive individualized instruction to address any curricular gaps. Residents receive the entire academic year's conference schedule in advance, along with reference materials and texts, to promote preparedness, higher-level discussions, and deeper understanding of the material.
Our curriculum leverages active learning principles to foster engagement and retention:
These methods ensure that residents are not passive recipients but active participants, driving their education and aligning with andragogical principles.
Residents participate in monthly simulation days to apply knowledge and skills from core content modules. These sessions provide a high-fidelity strategy to directly apply medical knowledge in clinical scenarios, practicing procedural skills, team management, and caring for highly complex cases in a psychologically (and physically) safe environment.
The bulk of our didactic curriculum covers core emergency medicine content in modules of varying length, depending on their breadth and importance to the practice of emergency medicine. Our curriculum also includes numerous Longitudinal Curricular Themes (LCTs) that address:
To enhance knowledge translation and retention, our curriculum incorporates principles from SoTL:
Regularly revisiting core concepts to strengthen memory and understanding.
Our curriculum includes time for active retrieval practice within each core content module. Learners face weekly questions on asynchronous content at the start of each academic half-day. Additionally, spaced retrieval is incorporated into our simulation sessions (asynchronous case content) and annual board review module.
Mixing related topics to improve learning and application of knowledge.
We employ longitudinal curricular themes to promote interleaving practice. Additionally, our monthly simulation sessions utilize varied strategies to cohesively practice medical knowledge, procedural skills, communication, and more.
Combining verbal, visual, and tactile information to enhance comprehension and recall.
Our curriculum uses innovative strategies to present content in both synchronous and asynchronous formats across multiple platforms. Learners engage with traditional texts, scholarly articles, FOAMed, and other materials to prepare for learning sessions. In conferences and simulations, we use other verbal, visual, and tactile methods to enhance knowledge translation and retention.
Encouraging residents to explain and describe concepts in their own words to deepen understanding.
Elaboration is fostered through various educational strategies regularly used in our weekly conferences, including small group facilitated discussions, case- and problem-based learning, team-based learning, simulation, sand more.
Using specific examples to illustrate abstract concepts, making them easier to grasp and remember.
We frequently utilize case-based learning in weekly conferences and simulation settings. These sessions present realistic cases, allowing learners to integrate knowledge and apply skills in a safe environment, closely mirroring real clinical practice.
