Unique Educational Opportunities

EMS Skills Day

• Annual event involving local ground and air EMS services, York Hospital EM faculty and residents
• Opportunities for hands-on scene rescue, ground EMS, and air EMS experiences and training
• Featured in local newspaper and TV news stories in 2008
• Course Director: R. Daniel Bledsoe, MD, HP

Wilderness Medicine Conference

• Annual regional event, featuring instructors and attendees from around the country
• Integrated survival skills and spouse/significant other/family activities
• Eligible for FAWM credits/pathway to fellowship (FAWM)
• Course Director:  Eric Bowman, MD, FAWM

APLS: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Course

• Annual regional event, drawing attendees from around the nation
• Didactic, small group, and skills sessions on all aspects of pediatric emergency medicine – much broader scope than PALS
• EM residency faculty and local pediatric experts recruited to staff course
• Integrated with EM conference series for skills sessions
• Course Director:  David D. Vega, MD

Longitudinal Emergency Ultrasound Curriculum

• Introductory sessions during EM orientation month
• Regularly scheduled didactic and practical/hands-on scanning sessions
• Ultrasound rotation
• Regular ultrasound QA meetings
• Skills education and assessment as part of Competency Days testing
• Opportunities to work with Emergency Ultrasound Fellow and faculty
• Curriculum Developers: C. Heather Rumsey, M.D. and Thomson Kehrl, M.D.

Airway/Procedure Cadaver Labs

• Semi-annual event at the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore
• Taught by York Hospital Emergency Medicine faculty
• Wide variety of procedures include several standard and difficult airway techniques, cricothyrotomy, chest tubes, pericardiocentesis, thoracotomy, and more!
• Popular session for generating research projects for Emergency Medicine residents and faculty members - several studies already completed and presented/published
• Course Directors: Walter Schrading, MD and Aizad Dasti, MD

Longitudinal Medical Simulation Curriculum

• Innovative curriculum covering key aspects of resuscitation
• Core resuscitation areas: Adult Cardiac (ACLS), Pediatric (PALS/APLS), and Traumatic (ATLS) emergencies
• Weekly, rotating participation in simulation sessions by EM residents
• Simulations developed from actual cases from our ED
• Curriculum and innovations developed by Andrew Kepner, M.D. and Jerome Bacasnot, M.D. (Section of Procedural Education, Competency, and Simulation - SPECS)

ECG Competency Program

• Comprehensive program focusing on key ECG diagnoses and interpretation skills
• Monthly ECG packets, team-based conferences, competency assessment sessions

Advanced Competency in ECG (ACE) Interpretation Program

• Voluntary program for top performers in ECG Competency Program
• Monthly ECG packets, ECG knowledge/criteria exams, teaching component

Competency Days

• Semi-annual sessions (December/April) incorporating oral exams, written exams, practical ultrasound exams, and oral case exams
• Focus on RRC Chief Complaint Competencies, ECG interpretation, ultrasound skills, procedural techniques, wellness/sleep/fatigue issues, and documentation/coding

Skills Day Sessions

• Focused sessions featuring a variety of procedural and ultrasound skills
• Led by EM faculty and medical simulation center staff
• Wide variety of procedures – examples include: suturing, ultrasound-guided central line placement, cardiac pacing, simulated cases/mock codes, fish-hook removal, wilderness medicine assessment and techniques, advanced airway management, chest tubes, lumbar puncture, T-pod pelvic fracture stabilization device placement, splinting and casting, nasopharyngolaryngoscopy, slit lamp skills, and many more
• Curriculum Director: Jerome Bacasnot, MD

Suturing Skills/Speed Competition

This annual competition pits our residents against each other in an old-fashioned "suture-off".  Residents participate in head-to-head contests with the winner advancing to the next round of competition.  Faculty judges time each suturing session and grade the quality of each resident's suturing.  The final round of competition is a spirited session with tremendous energy and enthusiasm as the residents cheer their colleagues on.  And, as always, the winner receives FABULOUS PRIZES!

• 2010 Suturing Competition Grand Champion: Kirsten Gee, M.D. (EM-2)
• 2010 Suturing Competition Runner-Up: Chad Roach, M.D. (EM-3)

Emergency Ultrasound Course

• Annual course featuring top national speakers in Emergency Ultrasound
• Integration of "hands-on" ultrasound skills sessions with didactic presentations
• Complements our comprehensive year-round ultrasound training
• Course Director:  C. Heather Rumsey, MD
• 2009 Guest Faculty: J. Christian Fox, MD (University of California-Irvine), Beatrice Hoffmann, MD, PhD (Johns Hopkins University),  Thomas Kehrl, MD (Cleveland Metrohealth),  C. Heather Rumsey, MD (York Hospital)

Zelko Memorial Lectures in Emergency Medicine

• Annual lecture series featuring top speakers in emergency medicine
• In memory of Cathy Zelko, former program assistant
• Past speakers include:
  • J. Ward Donovan, M.D., FACMT (Penn State University/PinnacleHealth Toxicology Center)
  • Emanuel Rivers, M.D. (Henry Ford Medical Center)
  • Joseph Lex, M.D. (Temple University)
  • Stephen Adams, M.D. (Northwestern University/Chicago Cubs)
  • Gregory Henry, M.D. (University of Michigan)

Vickrey Memorial Lectures in Emergency Medicine

• Annual residency graduation-linked lecture series featuring prominent speakers from around the country
• In memory of Fabien Vickrey, Chief Resident, Class of 2001
• Past speakers include:
  • Sandra Schneider, M.D. (University of Rochester)
  • J. Christian Fox, M.D. (University of California-Irvine)
  • Sheryl Heron, M.D. (Emory University)
  • John Burton, M.D. (Albany Medical College)
  • Rob Rogers, M.D. (University of Maryland)
  • Joseph Lex, M.D. (Temple University)
  • Amal Mattu, M.D. (University of Maryland)

Outstanding Conference Speakers

We are fortunate to have access to a wide variety of excellent outside speakers and visiting professors for our conference series. In addition to the outstanding speakers listed above for the Zelko and Vickrey Memorial Lectures, we have hosted leaders in our specialty socieities, our Medical Specialty Board, leading researchers and educators, and other giants in our specialty.  Here is a listing of some of  these leaders in emergency medicine:

• Sandra Schneider, M.D. (University of Rochester, President-Elect-ACEP)
• Jill Baren, M.D. (University of Pennsylvania, President-SAEM)
• Thomas Scaletta, M.D. (Rush Medical College/Cook County Hosital, Immediate Past President - AAEM)
• Angela Gardner, M.D.  (University of Texas-Galveston, President -ACEP)
• Debra Perina, M.D. (University of Virginia, ABEM Board of Directors, Current President - ABEM)
• David Seaberg, M.D. (Dean, University of Tennessee Chattanooga, ACEP Board of Directors)
• Larry Weiss, M.D., J.D. (University of Maryland, President - AAEM)
• James Jones, M.D. (Indiana University, ABEM Board of Directors)
• Robert McNamara, M.D. (Temple University, Past President and one of the founders of AAEM)
• Jesse Pines, M.D,, MBA (University of Pennsylvania)
• David Wald, D.O. (Temple University, Co-Founder CDEM - Clerkship Directors in Emergency Medicine Academy, SAEM)
• Michael Winters, M.D. (University of Maryland, EM:RAP Critical Care Director)
• Mark Joffe, M.D. (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - CHOP)
• Aaron Zuckerberg, M.D. (Sinai Hospital-Baltimore, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine)
• Christopher King, M.D. (University of Pittsburgh, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh)
• Beatrice Hoffmann, M.D. (Johns Hopkins University, Ultrasound Fellowship Director)

Residents' Research Day

• Annual research conference in early June,  featuring residents from all York Hospital residency programs
• Opportunities for oral presentations and poster presentations
• Emergency Medicine residents are always among the top presenters and award winners at Residents' Research Day
• Vice Chair - York Hospital IRB: Ronald Benenson, MD

SAFE/DOVE Program

• The DOVE Team is affiliated with the area’s foremost community domestic violence organization, ACCESS-York. 
• Multiple research projects are currently underway.
• Because domestic violence is so pervasive within society, residents learn how to provide excellent documentation and photo-documenting for domestic violence cases in conjunction with the DOVE nurses.
• Leadership:  Heather V. Rozzi, MD, Director of SAFE and DOVE Teams
  Emily Huggins, RN, SAFE Coordinator