Education

Harbor has a multi-room well-equipped Simulation Center located in our old Operating Rooms

Dedicated Core Conference

– We meet twice a month for protected PEM-dedicated conference time

– Fellows present (with a faculty mentor) for 8 conferences as part of a 2-year comprehensive systems-based core curriculum and short imaging interpretation topic

– As part of the core curriculum we follow along in readings in our fellowship-provided textbook, but we believe in adult self-paced learners, so for our core conferences we strive to focus on advanced or controversial or hands-on procedure-related aspects in an interactive and engaging fashion – no boring powerpoints!

– The remainder of the years’ conference time includes simulation sessions, workshops, and guest lecturers – Harbor is fortunate to have several nationally recognized PEM speakers as faculty

– We include frequent board review sessions, as well as ECG, toxicology, and Derm cases

– We include a comprehensive biostatistics curriculum as part of our conference schedule

Additional Conferences

– We have a combined Departments of EM & Pediatrics grand rounds three times per year

– We have a combined PEM conference with CHOC PEM and UCI EM 3-4 times per year

– We have a combined journal club with the PICU twice per year

Additional Education Opportunities

– Dept of EM residency conferences on Thursday mornings provide great learning for pediatrics residency-trained fellows and a way to keep up to date on adult EM topics for EM residency-trained fellows. Our fellows also present on a PEM topic to the EM residents twice a year

– The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation on Harbor’s campus provides free biostatistics and research design seminars

– Certification in PALS, NRP, and ATLS, and Base Station Hospital physician training are provided

– Monthly research meeting in Dept of EM reviews projects, gives feedback and advice on study design and data analysis, mentors in writing and submitting abstracts

– HERT (Hospital Emergency Response Training) for multi-casualty incidents available

– Annual disaster drill

Fellows have many opportunities to teach

– As part of fellowship, all fellows give two grand rounds style 25-minute PEM lectures as part of EM residency conference

– Departments of Pediatrics and Family Medicine welcome didactics from our fellows

– Assist our faculty in teaching emergency procedures to UCLA medical students in cadaver labs

– We teach at Paramedic Training Institute on topics such as pediatric airway management and pediatric assessment

– Several of our fellows have been invited to speak regionally at local hospitals, EDAP courses, and even nationally and internationally