Course Catalog

 
52-526 PEDIATRIC SIMULATION
Department PEDIATRICS Campus Birmingham
Course Type(s) Elective Facility Children's Hospital
Course Director NANCY M. TOFIL, MD Enrollment Limit 3
Contact ANDREA RACHEL BENZ Enrollment Minimum 0
Email arbenz@uabmc.edu Address PP1 102
Phone (205) 638-6669 Fax
Weeks
Normally Offered
See Offering Dates		 1-2, 1-4, 3-4, 5-6, 5-8, 7-8, 9-10, 9-12, 11-12, 13-14, 13-16, 15-16, 18-19, 18-21, 20-21, 22-23, 22-25, 24-25, 28-29, 28-31, 30-31, 32-33, 32-35, 34-35, 36-37, 36-39, 38-39, 40-41, 40-43, 42-43, 45-46, 45-48, 47-48, 49-50, 49-52, 51-52
Prerequisites Third year medical students must have completed Pediatric Clerkship. 
Specific Clerkship Prerequisites: Pediatrics
Visiting Students
Accepts students from US LCME accredited schools.
Accepts students from osteopathic schools.
Course Description Our students will be exposed to all activities in the simulation center including cases and debriefing sessions. For some cases they will serve as the family members and other cases as consultants to younger medical students, physicians for nursing student cases and teachers as appropriate. They will have the opportunity to use our task simulators to practice skills such as Ivs, Ios, CPR, defibrillation, etc. Finally, as appropriate they can utilize our extensive research database to participate in research according to their interests. Learning Objectives: 1. Clinical skills such as administering intravenous fluids, medications, using oxygen utilization devices, nebulized therapies, skills such as intubation, intravenous lines, intraossesous lines, CPR, defibrillation. 2. Integrate physiology into clinical cases. 3. Learn adult learning and active learning techniques and practice teaching of adult learners such as younger medical students, nursing and pharmacy students.
Where To Report Children's Hospital Pediatric Simulation Center, McWane Building Room 306, at 10:00 a.m. first day. The time may change according to our schedule.
Requirements Attend weekly team meetings, attend and participate in simulation and debriefing activities. Prepare for teaching sessions such as SVT physiology, respiratory physiology utilizing the alveolar gas equation.
Evaluation Attendance and participation in our weekly meetings as well as in our regularly scheduled activities. In addition students will be encouraged to write one MedEd Portal Case for submission in a case of their choosing with the guidance of our faculty. Students will have the opportunity but not requirement of participating in our center's research. During medical student simulations, these students will act as consultants and help with teaching of their younger colleagues.
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