Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Bernard and Millie Duker Children's Hospital at Albany Medical Center
Albany, NY
Throughout my medical career, I have focused on improving the landscape of medical education with a specific focus on simulation-based learning. I started my career by examining the efficiency of teaching clinical reasoning to residents. As the course director for the in-situ simulation program for Stony Brook Children’s hospital, I studied the efficiency of knowledge transfer for a clinical prediction rule (the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network, PECARN) by comparing immersive simulation to clinically integrated teaching in the pediatric emergency department.
While employing simulation-based medical education, I noticed that we were observing several latent safety threats (LST). Through this observation, we instituted a quality improvement project to better capture those LSTs found during simulation. It is through this work that I have parlayed my interest in simulation-based medical education into improving patient safety and the quality of care delivered.
My experience and expertise in multi-center collaborative simulation work, simulation use in education, and system assessment through PEAK-I, and the current PEAK II project examines questions surrounding how safety behaviors may be examined using simulation.
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Monday, April 18, 2022
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