Empowering Families: Simulation for Pediatric Caregiver Education (Simulation Academy-Sponsored)
Caregiver discomfort with managing medical care at home often leads to emergency department visits and complicates discharge planning. Simulation, a proven method for addressing low-frequency, high-stakes events in pediatric emergency medicine, is underutilized in patient and family education, despite its effectiveness. In this session, participants will learn how to use simulation to enhance caregiver confidence in managing their child's care at home. Through a stepwise framework, participants will work with simulation educators to assess caregiver needs, design relevant scenarios with targeted learning objectives, and refine simulations to improve caregiver education and support.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the unique needs of caregivers without prior background medical expertise, along with challenges they experience when taking care of children at home.
- Summarize the far-reaching hospital- and provider-level benefits of simulations that empower caregivers to care for children at home.
- Construct a basic simulation outline that meets the goals of caretakers while improving healthcare utilization.
Presenters:
- Kriti Gupta, MD
- Anna K. Weiss, MD, MSEd
- Ellen Szydlowski, MD
- Julian Curiel, MD
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Kriti Gupta, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Kriti Gupta is a simulation fellow and pediatric emergency medicine attending physician at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She completed her medical training in New york City, attending New York Medical College for school followed by a pediatric residency at Cohen Children's Medical Center. She then pursued a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at NewYork-Prebsbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. Her academic interests include applications of simulation in caregiver education, global health, and advancing technology.
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Anna K. Weiss, MD, MSEd
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia/Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Anna Weiss is an attending physician in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine (PSOM) at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her MD from PSOM and completed her residency in Pediatrics at CHOP, serving an additional year as Chief Resident. Dr. Weiss completed fellowship training in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at CHOP, earning her MSEd in Medical Education at Penn’s Graduate School of Education (GSE). She is the Director of Research in Education in the Division of Emergency Medicine at CHOP, and her research interests include procedural training and competency, assessment and feedback, and fostering psychological safety in the clinical learning environment.
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Ellen Szydlowski, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Ellen Szydlowski is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Perlman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and is an attending physician in the pediatric emergency department at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is the Director of Procedural Education for the Division of Emergency Medicine and organizes multiple workshops throughout the year educating medical students, residents, fellows and attendings. Dr. Szydlowski received her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College, combined Internal Medicine-Pediatric residency at the University of Rochester and Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Julian Curiel, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Julian Curiel is a first year pediatric emergency medicine fellow. He is interested in studying readiness of both pediatric residents and emergency medicine residents when entering the pediatric emergency medicine department. He completed his undergraduate at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and medical school at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He completed his residency of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.