Exporting your Ideas: How to Adapt your Curriculum for Use in Different National Contexts (GEMA Sponsored)

Emergency Medicine educators often share their educational curricula for use across the globe, implementing curricula in different contexts than the ones in which they were developed. Often "cultural adaptation" stops after translation of relevant material and does not account for relevant cross-cultural differences that may impact the success of program implementation. This is especially relevant in curricula that cover skills relevant to crisis resource management, such as team leadership, team dynamics, and communication. Published in BMJ Quality and Safety in 2021, a staged model of cultural adaptation for team training initiatives will be discussed by the first author, Dr. Rice. They will explore how this model was created, the four stages of curriculum adaptation, and real world experience from their work exporting curricula for use outside the original context.

Presenters:

  • Julie C. Rice, MD, MSMS, FACEP
  • Eisha Chopra, MD
Authors

  • Julie C. Rice, MD, MSMS, FACEP

    Johns Hopkins University

    Dr. Rice is the Director of Simulation Education and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Affiliate Faculty with the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety. They graduated from New York Medical College (2011) and completed their Emergency Medicine training at the Johns Hopkins Emergency Medicine Residency Program (2015). Dr. Rice is a graduate of the American College of Physicians Teaching Fellowship (2015), the Comprehensive Instructor Course at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston (2016) and has completed a Masters in Medical and Healthcare Simulation Education at Drexel University. She currently works at the Johns Hopkins Hospital as a clinician and simulation-based educator with a focus on collaborative practice, safety culture, and professionalism.

  • Eisha Chopra, MD

    Thomas Jefferson University

    Dr. Chopra is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. She was previously a faculty member in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM), where she served as the assistant Director of Simulation Education. She is originally from New Jersey, where she completed both her undergraduate and medical education at Rutgers University. She completed her emergency medicine residency at JHUSOM. As part of her PGY4 Focused Advanced Specialized Training (FAST) fellowship, she developed her interests in resident medical education and simulation education under the guidance of Dr. Linda Regan and Dr. Julie Rice. She was the inaugural recipient of the department’s Chaz N. Schoenfeld, M.D. Educational Scholars Award for her FAST program. She has also completed the Academic College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Teaching Fellowship and the Healthcare Simulation Essentials course through the Center for Medical Simulation.

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