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Teaching Opportunities
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Fellowship in Medical Education
In line with the broad-based curriculum, the fellowship offers various opportunities for instructing students at all levels.
- Medical Simulation Center: the fellow will be involved in moderating simulation sessions with residents and medical students, as well as developing cases for use with the adult, pediatric and obstetric simulators.
- Life-Saving Techniques Workshop: a required course for third-year medical students focusing on teaching and practicing skills for life-saving procedures such as airway management, cricothyrotomy, tube thoracostomy, DPL, intravenous access, etc. Six day-long sessions are held per year, and the fellow will be at the helm of each course, gaining experience in administration and procedural instruction.
- EM Resident Procedure Workshops: With prior labs including orthopedic skills, advanced life support, difficult airway, ultrasound, pediatric codes, mass casualty and disaster, the fellow will teach skills and develop a minimum of four innovative activities for these monthly workshops offered to EM residents, students and off-service rotators.
- EM Conference Lecture Series: The fellow will give a minimum of two lectures during resident conference.
- UVA School of Medicine Courses: Subject to availability, the fellow will have an opportunity to precept junior medical students in the emergency department, teaching clinical skills such as history-taking and conducting physical examinations.
Additional teaching opportunities are available with UVA's Emergency Medicine Interest Group and ACLS/PALS instruction through the Life Support Learning Center.
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