title: A Longitudinal Regional Educational Model for Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellows Emphasizing Small Group- and Simulation-based Learning.
abstract: Recent trends have necessitated a renewed focus on how we deliver formal didactic and simulation experiences to pulmonary and critical care medicine (PCCM) fellows. To address the changing demands of training PCCM fellows, as well as the variability in the clinical training, fund of knowledge, and procedural competence of incoming fellows, we designed a PCCM curriculum that is delivered regionally in the Baltimore/Washington, DC area in the summer and winter. The educational curriculum began in 2008 as a collaboration between the Critical Care Medicine Department at the National Institutes of Health and the Pulmonary and Critical Care Section of the Department of Medicine at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and now includes 13 individual training programs in PCCM, critical care medicine, and pulmonary diseases in Baltimore and Washington, DC. Informal and formal feedback from the fellows who participated led to substantial changes to the course curriculum, allowing for continuous improvement. The educational consortium has helped build a local community of educators to share ideas, support each other's career development, and collaborate on other endeavors. In this article, we describe how we developed and deliver this curriculum and report on lessons learned.
authors: 1 Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
authors: Nirav G
authors: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6161-2233
authors: NG
authors: Shah
authors: 2 Critical Care Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors: Nitin
authors: N
authors: Seam
authors: 3 Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Respiratory Services, and.
authors: Christian J
authors: CJ
authors: Woods
authors: 4 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; and.
authors: Henry E
authors: HE
authors: Fessler
authors: 3 Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Respiratory Services, and.|5 Department of Emergency Medicine, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, District of Columbia.
authors: Munish
authors: M
authors: Goyal
authors: 2 Critical Care Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
authors: Dorothea
authors: D
authors: McAreavey
authors: 2 Critical Care Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.|3 Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Respiratory Services, and.|6 Department of Medicine, AIC Kijabe Hospital, Kijabe, Kenya.
authors: Burton W
authors: BW
authors: Lee
mesh_terms: D015142:Baltimore; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards*; D004219:District of Columbia; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods*; D015272:Pulmonary Medicine / Q000193:education*
keywords: curriculum design; medical education; pulmonary and critical care training; regional collaboration