Curriculum

Pediatric Trauma - As the only ACS verified pediatric trauma center in Oakland and Macomb country, Corewell Children’s get the most critically injured patients for trauma care.  Our PEM fellows are an integral part of the Trauma team, leading the resuscitations with our surgical services.  The emergency center at our Royal Oak campus serves as a regional referral center for pediatric trauma in our system and area.  It is verified as a Level II pediatric trauma center and Level I adult trauma center by the American College of Surgeons.  Surgeons are on call 24 hours a day, with air medical transportation readily available and on-site helipad.  

Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellows encounter multisystem trauma patients during their clinical PEM months at our home base of Royal Oak as well as their EM rotations here.  They also do a dedicated outside rotation at another local hospital trauma center to gain additional perspective and training.  We have regular in-situ simulations with the pediatric trauma surgeons to keep up to date on scenarios, procedure lab in our simulation center, as well as joint conferences with our trauma surgeons to review level I cases for education.

Our pediatric trauma team participates in community outreach education and events.  Bike safety, child seat safety, dangers of drinking and driving are some of the injury prevention topics.

https://www.beaumont.org/services/childrens/specialties/pediatric-trauma

Clinical ultrasound has become an increasingly important tool in the evaluation and Ultrasound treatment of emergency department patients. Our Ultrasound program was developed to train emergency physicians in the utilization of this important diagnostic modality.

Fellows are trained in this discipline by expert faculty using fourteen state-of-the-art ultrasound machines. We have two ultrasound fellowship trained faculty on staff along with a robust fellowship program. The majority of our staff are credentialed in a variety of core ultrasound applications and regularly perform studies on clinical shifts.

Fellows have 1 ultrasound block rotation and participate in longitudinal scanning throughout their fellowship. The rotations include hands on scanning supervised by expert clinical faculty, image review, and journal club. Fellows also receive several grand rounds lectures throughout the academic year, participate in procedure labs and attend regional US conferences. This broad exposure translates into seamless use of ultrasound effectively while on clinical shifts. Our fellows graduate having completed over 10ultrasound studies

Research and scholarly activity are important components of the ultrasound program. Faculty are active at the regional and national level with a number of peer-reviewed publications and grant-funded projects with key areas of interest including: ultrasound-guided vascular access, cardiac ultrasound, and trainee education. Fellows have the opportunity to engage in the research process and learn from expert faculty.

We offer a state-of-the-art Simulation and Surgical Learning Center that allows for hands-on training and simulation. The fellow will participate in high-fidelity simulation training on a monthly basis.

Fellows have a monthly procedure lab as part of the weekly conference. This lab allows fellows to practice critical emergency procedures in the Surgical Learning Center.  

18 month rotating didactic curriculum with weekly conferences to cover all board content specifications set by ABP Highlights, in addition to standard topic lectures, include:

• New and innovative small group flipped classroom learning
• Interactive PEM Board Prep curriculum
• Medical Stats and US pearls lecture series