Curriculum
Curriculum
The fellows complete 12 months of training that includes:
- 11 months of Community Emergency Medicine
- 10 months at MCH for 140 shifts (1400 hours)
- 1 month at PCMH for 12 shifts (144 hours)
- >2000 patient encounters per fellow on avg.
- 1 month Pediatric Emergency Medicine at University Medical Center in Lubbock (Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center)
- 100 hours EMS ride-outs
- Odessa Fire Department
- Ultrasound training
- Scheduled hands-on training by faculties
- SonoSim training modules purchased for fellows
- Didactics
- 150+ hours monthly didactics by core faculties & PD
- Weekly 4 hour didactic sessions shared by the TTUHSC EM Residency Program (separate from the monthly didactics)
- EKG sessions
- Topic reviews
- Journal clubs
- Monthly Tintinalli readings
- Each fellow has individual question banks to ensure compliance
- 48 hours EMRAP lectures
- Amal Mattu's ECG weekly cases (40 weeks)
- Free EM board prep from ABEM Prep (www.abemprep.com) with its founder (Dr. Bose) as the program's core faculty.
- Procedural skill labs
- At the TTUHSC-PB/MCH state-or the-art SIM Center (7th floor of MCH)
- Practice managment/Business of emergency medicine
- Ballistic trauma training
- Research projects
- At least one QI project required to graduate
- EM lectures & skills teaching to FM residents at TTUHSC-PB
- 16 hours per fellow annually
- Elective experiences/rotations as arranged with the fellowship director (a few examples listed below)
- Procedure elective
- Anesthesiology
- Critical Care
- Pediatric EM
- US training (general/echo)