The Art of Asking Questions as a Gateway to Effective Feedback

Authors

  • Demian Szyld, MD, EdM

    Boston Medical Center

    Demian Szyld (pronounced “shield”), is an Attending Physician at Boston Medical Center where he cares for acutely ill and injured and enjoys being on high-performance teams and teaching at the bedside. He is the Director of Innovation in Education and Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs.

    Demian trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and was the first Simulation and Education Fellow at the STRATUS Simulation Center at BWH. During that time he completed a Master’s in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

    His academic and scholarly focuses on evidence based approaches to teaching and assessing clinical skills and more recently on bringing the techniques of reflection and debriefing to the clinical setting. His current focus is Debriefing in the Clinical Environment and Faculty Development.

    Demian grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina until the age of 14. His mother, grandmother and other extended family still live there. Demian currently lives in Cambridge, MA with his family who speak Spanish, English and Bengali.

  • Ivette Motola, MD, MPH

    University of Miami Gordon Center

    Dr. Motola is Professor of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine and Professor of Medical Education at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Associate Director of the Gordon Center for Simulation and Innovation in Medical Education and has served as its Director of the Prehospital and Emergency Training Division for the past 18 years.
    Dr. Motola has a special interest and expertise in developing and implementing curricula for prehospital and hospital‐based healthcare professionals and the application of simulation and other technologies to emergency medical education. She has led quality improvement initiatives at the health system level in response to emergencies by implementing rapid response team training and in‐situ simulation. She also has expertise in interprofessional education and team training. Dr. Motola has served as PI or Co‐PI on multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Florida Department of Health, and several foundations. Her research interests include effective use of simulation and technology for skills acquisition and retention, team training, interprofessional education, medical decision‐making in crisis situations, program evaluation, and assessment.
    Dr. Motola received her undergraduate degree from Columbia University and received her medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in 2000. She completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital) in 2004. She received an M.P.H. in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2005 as a Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellow in Health Policy and Health Disparities.
    Dr. Motola is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and the Society for Simulation in Healthcare.

  • Matthew Frederick

  • Ernesto J. Romo, MD

    Washington University Department of Emergency Medicine

    Ernesto Romo, MD, currently works at Washington University School of Medicine at Saint Louis in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He completed an emergency medicine residency at Cook County Hospital inChicago. He also completed a simulation fellowship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He is the director of diversity, equity and inclusion and the director of simulation for the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Romo also serves as a coach for medical students at Washington University. Dr. Romo was previously an assistant program director. He is father to the most magnificent daughters and these days enjoys discovering the universe alongside them.

  • Derek L. Monette, MD, MHPE

  • Stephanie Stapleton, MD

    Boston Medical Center / Boston University

    Stephanie Stapleton, MD, currently serves as Director of Emergency Medicine Simulation at Boston Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. She leads 450 annual contact hours of simulation for 50 attendings, 50 residents, >100 medical and PA students, and advises on advanced practice provider simulation.
    She is Vice President of the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Simulation Academy Research & Scholarship Subcommittee, a member of Society of Simulation in Healthcare and the International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research, and Education. She has published and presented nationally on simulation research and innovations, focusing on procedural training, pediatric resuscitation, and distance simulation. Her areas of interest are translational simulation, procedural model creation, innovations testing, and developing an adult emergency medicine simulation research community.

  • Alex Croft, MD

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