Winter 2022
Announcements
The BSOM Simulation Center will be closed for the holidays Friday, Dec. 23, 2022 – Monday, January 2, 2023 (reopening Tuesday, January 3, 2023). Please let us know if you anticipate needing access to the Center during that time.
The IPE online course, Basic Simulation for Faculty, has been updated and will be available in January 2023. This course awards continuing education credits. Please contact us to register. All course preceptors and educators should complete the course.
BSOM Simulation is officially being included in the new medical education building, scheduled to open Fall 2027. Although we are in the early stages of planning, please stop by our office to see the latest diagrams. We invite our facilitators and students to provide input into the new space.
Photo left: BSOM, CON, and PA students learn chest tube placement during the interprofessional I-TEAM day.
Simulation Stars
Becky Gilbird, MPH, Administrative Director, for achieving international Certified Healthcare Simulation Operations Specialist-Advanced™ (CHSOS-A™) credential from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. This portfolio-based application distinguishes those who have proven themselves to be advanced operations specialists and serve as mentors to others in the field of simulation.
Photo right: Dr. Malick, Critical Care Fellow, teaching Blakemore tube placement to EM residents.
Program Activity
The Latino Student Medical Association, Emergency Medicine Interest Group, and Orthopedic Surgery Interest Group all held skills workshops that included suturing, intravenous and intraosseous injections, and ultrasound.
The Student National Medical Association organized simulation and skills stations as part of their annual conference to demonstrate CPR, tourniquet application, and intubation. They also showed students a high-fidelity manikin and its capabilities.
ECU Health EastCare continues quarterly education for their staff that includes skills and high-fidelity scenarios and offers an airway course for new hires.
BSOM Simulation is collaborating with ECU Health to expand the central venous access course to include Advanced Practice Professionals.
BSOM M3 and M4 students are increasingly enrolling in the 2-week simulation and skills elective, during which they practice skills related to their chosen specialty and learn to use simulation as an educational modality.
The Department of Physicians Assistant Studies held Pediatric Advanced Life Support sessions and dedicated skills sessions for advanced airway skills, chest tubes, and slit lamp practice.
GME Conferences continue monthly for Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medicine/Internal Medicine. Each conference includes skills stations and scenarios.
Over 30 students participated in this year’s Interprofessional Triage and Emergency Assessment and Management (I-TEAM) Day organized by the BSOM Emergency Medicine Interest Group. Students from the Brody School of Medicine, the College of Nursing and the College of Allied Health Sciences’ Department of Physician Assistant Studies participated in skills training and a mass casualty scenario that included over 20 standardized patients from the Office of Clinical Skills. Simulated patients were moulaged by students and faculty from ECU School of Theater and Dance (Photo left).
Outreach
The mobile HSU and ECU Health Medical Center Trauma Service members presented pediatric trauma scenarios at Carolina East Medical Center and UNC Wayne.
The mobile HSU participated in the regional HOSA Conference at Eastern AHEC in November. Over 100 students learned how BSOM uses simulation education to improve healthcare throughout the region.
Dr. Robey, J. Menke of ECU, R. Dail, and B. Vasios of Ragged Edge Solutions were panelists at the Science and Technology Forum hosted by ECU and Defense Alliance of North Carolina.
Photo right: The MV-22 Osprey Simulation Unit was transported to Fort Bragg as part of the Joint Innovation Medical Symposium. This invitation-only event was an opportunity to expand the BSOM’s mission of service to military personnel.
Scenes from 2022
Contact Us
Phone: (252) 744-3251
Email: csc@ecu.edu
Website: medicine.ecu.edu/clinicalsimulation
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