Loeb Teaching Fellowship

Erin Hickey, MD, (Pediatrics)
Goals: The primary goals of the project are to fill a gap in the curriculum by a) educating pediatric residents about grief and how it manifests, b) provide skill-building opportunities, and c) facilitate debriefing opportunities for residents to emotionally process through their own grief experiences that arise while caring for children who are seriously ill. The secondary goals are to mitigate resident burnout and reach a new standard of professional fulfillment that extends beyond encouragement of ‘personal resilience’. This project will contribute to the culture of wellness at our institution by enhancing faculty support and accountability for trainee well-being.

James Duncan, MD, PhD (Radiology)
Goals: 1) Use Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) to organize and prioritize the existing knowledge of failure modes that occur before, during and after common image-guided procedures such as central venous catheter placement and percutaneous aspiration/drainage. 2) Create educational interventions that support trainees in their efforts to acquire, deliberately practice and test the knowledge and skills necessary to reduce the frequency, improve the early detection and reduce the severity of untoward events caused by the targeted failure modes. 3) Use data from ongoing patient care in radiology to continually assess the effectiveness of the educational interventions as well as other mitigation efforts. This will include monitoring system performance in radiology to capture more salient examples of known failure modes and discover previously unknown failure modes.

Noor Riaz, MD, MPH (Pediatrics)
Summary: Health disparities and inequity is a public health crisis in St. Louis as well as the country, largely due to social and structural determinants of health. This proposal will use a case-based teaching tool to develop a clinical curriculum for Pediatric residents and students on social determinants of health. The cases would identify a teaching trigger, teaching point, and scripting. UME and GME learners would be integrated for learning activities. The outcomes that we expect to achieve are improved awareness about the breadth and impact of social determinants on the pediatric population, increase learner empowerment to contribute towards solutions and improve patient experiences in hospitalized settings, especially those of historically marginalized communities.