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Pediatric emergency care · Mar 2023
The Current State of Pediatric Emergency Medicine Training in Emergency Medicine Residencies.
- Jillian Nickerson, Aditi Ghatak-Roy, Katie A Donnelly, Anita A Thomas, Daniel Robinson, Kelly N Roszczynialski, and Xian Zhao.
- From the Division of Emergency Medicine and Trauma Services, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC.
- Pediatr Emerg Care. 2023 Mar 1; 39 (3): 167172167-172.
BackgroundSeveral studies show that emergency medicine (EM) physicians are less comfortable caring for pediatric patients than adults. The state of pediatric training has not been comprehensively evaluated since 2000.ObjectivesWe sought to describe current pediatric education in EM residencies and to evaluate EM Program Director (PD) confidence in graduating trainees' abilities to care for pediatric patients.MethodsWe conducted an anonymous, cross-sectional survey study of EM PDs in August 2020. We collected program demographics, clinical rotations, and didactic methods. We used Likert scales to measure PD confidence in graduating residents' competence to care for pediatric and adult patients.ResultsWe found e-mail addresses for 249 (93%) of 268 EM programs. One hundred nineteen (48%) PDs completed the survey. We include denominators to account for unanswered questions. Sixty-eight (59%) of 116 programs spend 10% to 20% of clinical time seeing pediatric patients. One hundred ten (91%) of 119 require a pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) rotation, 88/119 (83%) require pediatric intensive care, and 34/119 (29%) require neonatal intensive care. Seventy (62%) of 113 have curricula designed by PEM-trained faculty, 96/113 (85%) have PEM attendings teach lectures, and 77/113 (68%) spend 10% to 20% of didactic time on pediatric topics. Twenty-three (23%) of 106 PDs stated not all residents graduate with competence in pediatric resuscitation compared with 2/106 (2%) for adult resuscitation ( P < 0.05).ConclusionsProgram directors report less confidence in graduating residents' competence in caring for pediatric patients compared with adult patients. We propose ideas to strengthen the quality of pediatric education in EM residencies.Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
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