Curriculum Development

I practice at a fairly new academic center. In 2021, our first pediatric residency class graduated. The new program has created a lot of opportunities for innovative curriculum. I have created various curricula at Nemours Children’s Health Florida. Below is a list. I have attached examples of some of the curricula below.

• January 2023- present Pediatric Board Review Curriculum. Nemours. Orlando, FL.

• March 2021-present Resident Morbidity & Mortality Curriculum. Nemours. Orlando, FL

• July 2020- present Residency Morning Report Curriculum. Nemours. Orlando, FL.

• July 2020-present Nemours Academy of Master Educators Curriculum. Co-director and Instructor. Nemours. Orlando, FL.

• July 2019-present Pediatric Critical Care Resident and Medical Student Lecture and Simulation Curriculum. Nemours. Orlando, FL.

• July 2018- 2020 Pediatric Critical Care Medicine MS-III and MS-IV Sub-internship. Rotation Director, UCF College of Medicine. Orlando, FL.

• April 2017-present Pediatric Fundamental Critical Care Support Course. Instructor. Nemours. Orlando, FL.

• August 2015- 2016 Pediatric Critical Care Resident Education Curriculum. Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY

• July 2013-June 2015 Pediatric Critical Care Resident Rotation Curriculum. Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, NY

• July 2011-2012 Pediatric Resident Lecture Series. Maimonides Infants and Children’s Hospital, Brooklyn, NY.

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Resident Electives

Morning Report Curriculum

This is a content diverse curriculum  delivering topics from the American Board of Pediatrics content specifications for board examination preparation with a standard format based on adult learning theory and the cognitive science of learning all while maintaining psychological safety at the center of the initiative. The curriculum structure consists of thirty-minute live sessions that use a PowerPoint presentation three times a week at 8:30 am. The session begins with a visual diagnosis picture followed by one board preparation question for the first 5 minutes. A pre-determined patient case is presented and discussed. The discussion consists of active history taking by the audience including workup, differential, diagnosis, pathophysiology, and treatment. The final slides focus on high yield points from the session and a reminder for learners to reflect and journal about what they have learned. The sessions are taught by attendings, chief residents, and the senior resident on a teaching elective. Monthly, we mentor the residents on the teaching elective as they explore and apply adult learning theory in the creation of their own morning report presentation. The curriculum also emphasizes critical elements of effective education through the use of teaching strategies that we share regularly with the MR participants. The strategies include circadian rhythms, timing, the primacy-recency effect, the practice of retrieval, emotional learning, and psychological safety. Examples of how we apply each strategy to the curriculum structure are described in the table below.