+ 2025-2026 Elective Process
| 25-26 | A | B |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6/30-7/13 | 7/14-7/27 |
| 2 | 7/28-8/10 | 8/11-8/24 |
| 3 | 8/25-9/7 | 9/8-9/21 |
| 4 | 9/22-10/5 | 10/6-10/19 |
| 5 | 10/20-11/2 | 11/3-11/16 |
| 6 | 11/17-11/30 | 12/1-12/14 |
| 7 | 12/15-12/28 | 12/29-1/11 |
| 8 | 1/12-1/25 | 1/26-2/8 |
| 9 | 2/9-2/22 | 2/23-3/8 |
| 10 | 3/9-3/22 | 3/23-4/5 |
| 11 | 4/6-4/19 | 4/20-5/3 |
| 12 | 5/4-5/17 | 5/18-5/31 |
| 13 | 6/1-6/14 | 6/15-6/28 |
In April your class and the RLT will finalize your block schedule, it is important to keep in mind if you want certain electives (global health, GRR, Wilderness, away electives, etc) you block those off as allowable by your class's schedule.
Meetings in April with LaFollette will be self-scheduled to go over your elective plan. This page is meant to provide examples of tried-and-true electives as well as unique electives residents have done in the past. This list is meant to be complete but not exhaustive. Electives are your time to get creative, find your niche and be a better doctor. Use them as such and come prepared to the meeting with ideas.
Timeline:
- 4-6 weeks ahead of your elective (6 months for away electives), you will receive an elective form (google doc) from Kim to fill out and have your elective mentor sign off digitally.
- After your elective, Kim will reach out asking for your pre-defined elective product and feedback on the elective
- Feedback is key to keeping electives as engaging and helpful as they can be, we will send a survey post-elective, but also email / text LaFollette any feedback
Education
Critical Care
EMS
Social EM
Clinical Electives
Other electives
operations
FOAMed with Drs. Hill / LaFollette
Offered: All year
+ Goals
At the conclusion of the elective the resident will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of multimedia design and cognitive load theory.
- Demonstrate an understanding of best practices in FOAMed and literature supporting its implementation.
- Create an asynchronous educational end product integrating principles of pertinent educational theories and tuned to a specific learner group.
+ Objectives
Residents will work towards the production of an asynchronous educational end-product, while learning about the spectrum of FOAMed resources and capabilities that exist. Depending on the subject, that may include learning the technical details of podcast production and development, film editing, online posting of blog articles, infographics or the development of blended learning educational products which have both asynchronous and synchronous components. During the elective the resident will be given a number of readings to provide background information on educational theories with specific focus on integrating the principles within these educational theories into their educational end product.
End Product: Online post (podcast, video, section, etc0
+ Time Reqs
There will be several face to face meetings including pre-elective meeting to define a project and staged meetings to assess progess. Time will be spent learning the technologic aspects of FOAMed (podcast and video production, infographic creation), literature review and content creation.
Bedside teaching with Dr. Jason Nagle
2 week elective
Offered - 2025-2026 blocks PENDING (but likely similar…)
July-October (1A-5A)
February-April (9A-11A)
June (13A-B)
+ Goals
At the conclusion of the elective the resident will be able to:
- Explore the literature to identify best practices in bedside teaching for various learners
- Discuss different types of learner and how to customize your instructional methods to meet your learner's goals and needs
- Practice one-on-one bedside teaching in the ED, experimenting with different teaching methods to identify which techniques are best for you and your learner
- Gain experience in small group clinical instruction through the Emergency Medicine Acting Internship didactics, procedure workshops, and simulation sessions
- Reflect upon on your Bedside Teaching and get feedback from an experienced clinician educator by successfully completing a formal Bedside Teaching Consult
+ Time Reqs
Residents are expected to work six eight-hour one-on-one Teaching Shifts with an M4 learner in the ED. Additional required activities include participating in a two-hour weekly Didactic/Sim session with the Emergency Medicine Acting Internship, a one-time Education Journal Club with Dr. Nagle, and completion of a formal Bedside Teaching Consult to get feedback on your educational style you can carry forward.
End Product: Education Consult Document (by faculty)
+ Objectives
The Bedside Teaching Elective is an opportunity for residents of all levels to reflect upon their current teaching practices, experiment with new instructional techniques, and hone their educational skills in the clinical environment. While the elective may appeal to those with a specific interest in medical education, it is useful to all residents who want to improve their clinical teaching and supervisory skills.
Critical Care Ultrasound with Dr. Jordan Bonomo
Offered: All Year as approved with Dr. Bonomo's schedule
+ Goals
Experience with ECHO / Vascular / Thoracic Ultrasound with in-depth understanding of complex ultrasound integration into resuscitative management.
+ Objectives
- Read at least 3 articles a day
- Add a handful of new articles to the folder
- Annotate a bibliography of your new article additions
- Create a 5-8 slide talk on something EC/CCM US related
- Plan to meet Bonomo with for two one-hour review sessions
- Scan 2 shifts with Bonomo
- Scan on your own in CVICU and NSICU
- Acquire at least 20 ECHOs and review them
End Product: US Case Write-up, US of the Month Case, Lit Review, etc
Difficult Airway Elective with ENT
Offered: All Year
End Product: Clinical Elective - no end product required
Objectives:
Increased comfort with the operative neck anatomy
Perform a tracheal procedure in the controlled operative setting
See post-operative patients on rounds and increase comfort with the recently operative neck
Elective Sponsor - Dr. Yash Patil
Hours and responsibilities dependent on operative case availability. At least 20 h/wk clinical time
End Product: Clinical Elective - no end product required
Evidence-Based Medicine with Dr. Caroline Freirmuth
Offered: All Year
+ Description
2 week elective offered which will be a primary survey of the literature on a topic of your choice (may be used for QI/KT) which will result in a literature summary to be presented at EM-RIG and publication or online summary.
End Product: Lit Review or QI/KT Lecture
+ Goals
Form habits to analyze and critique medical literature to create habits in critical appraisal.
Ed Resuscitation with Dr laFollette
Offered: All Year
+ Goals
- Introduce residents to core critical care literature
- Exposure to mentors in varied EM-CC specialties
- Clinical experience in the SRU and exposure to critical care and its transition to the ICU
+ Objectives
- Attend individual didactic and simulation sessions scheduled during elective
- Attend any critical care journal club or quarterly CCM evening meeting that occurs during this time frame
- Perform sim session on critical care management
- Critical Care/SRU Nursing Orientation (Drip titration, bedside practice)
- Critical Care RT Review (acute vent management)
- Literature discussion and review
End product: Lit Review and Discussion, Checklist
+ Optional Lectures
- Stroke Call
- CCM Pharmacy Rounds
- Attendance to ICU didactics
- Contribute a CCM topic to Annals of B-pod or TamingtheSRU.com
Emergency Management with Dr. Dustin Calhoun
Offered: All year - pre-approval by Dr. Calhoun depending on available opportunities during proposed time (trainings, events, etc) Flying Pig medical control would fall into 11B for the 24-25 year
+ Goals
To provide the resident with a greater understanding of principles of emergency management as it applies to health care and the role an emergency physician can play in the planning and operational phases.
+ Objectives
Content of the elective is dependent on the current activities in the region. They might include involvement in the planning and/or execution of regional or hospital drills, reviewing and improving emergency department emergency management plans, hazmat training, or a course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, Alabama.
Intro to EMS with EMS Faculty
Offered: All Year
+ Goals
To create a broad exposure to EMS Medicine to include multiple facets of the subspecialty and discover potential areas of interest and research projects.
+ Description
The resident will participate in a dedicated 2 week period of EMS exposure. This will include exposure to ground EMS (ride along time) with both CFD or community departments, administrative meeting attendance, attendance of fellow EMS didactics, dispatch, and HEMS QI meetings with multiple other options available depending on interest. This is an important general overview of EMS for both the potentially fellowship bound resident as well as anyone hoping to get a better understanding of the prehospital system.
Global Health through UCEM
We have established electives in Guatemala and Tanzania with diverse clinical experiences. Each of which require 6 months of lead time for GME / Department approval. Before each experience, we will define a project you can take away from your experience in addition to the invaluable clinical exposure, including a QA project or addition to our tropical disease case library. If interested, please discuss with elective mentors or residents that have gone previously.
The end products of each elective are
Sending proof of completion of this course to us.
Completion by at least one supervisor of the agreed upon evaluation form (will need to redo this, and have a section for non-clinical rotations, e.g., those that are primarily education focused)
Make a plan and complete a project after returning, either a GR short talk (we’ll probably do a round up talk as we have before) or a TTS post or something else TBD
+ Description
The Malawi experience is in Mzuzu Regional Central Hospital in the Emergency Department with oversight from Emergency Physicians in the regional referral center in Northern Malawi.
+ Description
In collaboration with the University of Michigan, residents will rotate in the Accident and Emergency at Komfo Anokye Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana, the second largest referral center in Ghana with large volume and critical care capabilities. There is a 3 year Emergency Medicine program and both learning and teaching is expected during this 4 week rotation.
Tanzania
Guatemala
In conjunction with our partners at the Maya Health Alliance and Christ Hospital Family Medicine Program, please see link for more information
2025-2026 Dates tentatively 2/28-3/14
2025-2026 Dates
9/6/25 - 9/20/25
11/1/25 - 11/15/25
1/31/26 - 2/14/26
4/11/26 - 4/25/26 - Preferred UCEM Slot
6/6/26 - 6/20/26
See the TtS GH Page for further details
Intro to Operations (A&O1) with Dr. Rob Thompson
Offered: All year except 1 A/B, 4A, 7A, 10B
This introductory elective will serve to familiarize residents with core topics and themes within healthcare operations and administration through reading assigned textbook chapters and articles, completing specific Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) courses, and attending departmental operations meetings. This elective can be skipped if a resident already has foundational knowledge in the areas of quality improvement, patient safety, and patient experience, such as an MBA, previous relevant work experience, and/or extensive exposure in medical school.
+ Objectives
- Define basic concepts of flow (lean principles, queuing theory, theory of constraints, etc.) quality improvement, patient safety, patient experience, and healthcare leadership
- Demonstrate how these key concepts are applied in current practice at the UCMC Center for Emergency Care
- Identify an operations niche to build on in future electives
+ Core Tasks
- Complete the following IHI courses & submit course completion certificates, to serve as elective end product, to elective supervisor:
- QI 101: Intro to Healthcare Improvement
- QI 103: Testing and Measuring Changes with PDSA Cycles
- QI 105: Leading Quality Improvement
- PS 101: Intro to Patient Safety
- L 101: Intro to Healthcare Leadership
- L 201: The Role of Leaders in Workforce Safety
- Read the following chapters from Crane & Noon’s Definitive Guide to ED Operations:
- Chapter 2: Value Stream Mapping
- Chapter 8: Lean Flow
- Chapter 14: Patient Experience
- Chapter 15: Leadership and Change Management in Healthcare
- Meet with an operations faculty mentor to help identify potential areas of interest
- Attend at least 1 of each of the following meeting types:
- Case Review (Airway, Trauma, CDU, Psych, Neurotrauma, Department-wide Peer Review);
- Quality (Procedural Sedation, EM Clinical Quality);
- Operations (CEC Strategic Integration, Department Operations);
Advanced Operations (A&O2) with Dr. Rob Thompson
Offered: All year
This advanced elective will build upon the foundation developed in the introductory elective, A&O1. The resident will be tasked with designing a project as it relates to their area of interest within healthcare administration/ED operations. The project can be completed longitudinally. Additionally, the resident will curate literature/research articles within their niche and contribute to the growing Operations Library.
+ Objectives
- Create and initiate a project/intervention related to their niche within healthcare administration/operations
- Appraise evidence-based best practices from operations literature
- Identify additional opportunities to further their career within healthcare administration/operations
+ Core Tasks
- Read the following chapters from Crane & Noon’s Definitive Guide to ED Operations:
- Chapter 6: Rapid Changeover
- Chapter 11: Best Practices – The Door to Doc Interval
- Chapter 12: Best Practices – The Doc to Dispo Interval
- Chapter 13: Best Practices – The Dispo to Departure Interval
- Create project plan, to serve as elective end product, that includes: timeline (preferably through use of Gantt chart or similar alternative), key stakeholders, resources needed, and outputs
- Curate and/or update articles related to a topic of interest within healthcare administration/operations to be utilized for future operations education forums
- Meet with an operations faculty mentor at least twice regarding their project
- Apply for healthcare administration/operations course travel scholarship, such as:
- Attend operations meetings related to their niche
ED Operations/Healthcare Administration Scholarship (A&O3) with Dr. Rob Thompson
Offered: All Year
This elective should be taken after a resident has implemented a project/intervention of their choosing. The main focus of this elective is on dissemination and synthesis of scholarly work. Ideally, the resident will present an abstract, publish a manuscript, develop a presentation (for UCEM Grand Rounds, UCEM Operations Leadership Academy, regional conference and/or national conference), and/or complete another form of scholarship
+ Objectives
- Evaluate the successes and failures of a project
- Disseminate the results of a longitudinal project
- Contribute to the mentorship opportunities within the residency/operations leadership academy (OLA)
+ Core Tasks
- Complete project pertaining to their niche
- Develop a scholarly deliverable (i.e. Grand Rounds/OLA presentation, Taming the SRU blog post, regional/national presentation) regarding their project to serve as elective end product
- Serve as a mentor to junior residents within the residency/OLA
- Attend a regional/national conference related to healthcare administration/operations, such as ACEP EDDA, IEDLI, AAEM-EM Management Solutions: Principles and Practice, EMRA Leadership and Advocacy Conference, etc. (Funding via an awarded travel scholarship application from A&O2 or otherwise determined by the elective faculty member.)
- Meet with an operations faculty regarding their future career trajectory and fellowship/job application process
- Attend meetings related to their niche
Capacity Management with Dr. Bennett Lane
Offered: All Year except 1A, 6A, 7A, 13B
Goals:
At the end of the elective, the resident will be able to:
Describe a commonly used model of hospital and ED throughput and the relationship of ED to the hospital
Describe commonly used quantitative analytic techniques for capacity and flow
Objectives:
Core content readings (6 articles/chapters focused on theory) + following Chalk Talks (2 of these): Queuing theory, Overview of throughput modeling
ED example readings (3 of these) + addition of 2-3 new ED example readings + annotation in a bibliography of these example readings
Participation in systemwide capacity management meetings
Complete mentored case reviews of transfers/bed board calls
4 hour shadowing with Discharge Expeditor RN
4 hour shadowing with CMC ("bed board")
Examples of potential end products:
Analysis of a specific flow/throughput activity in the system
Taming the SRU post on a capacity management topic relevant to the ED
Informatics with Drs Frank Fernandez and Bennett Lane
Offered: Scheduling depends on Epic offering of courses, contact Dr Fernandez/Lane for additional information on timing of electives
Requirements: 2x2 week blocks (required commitment to two elective blocks, generally non-contiguous 2-week blocks. Electives can be spread between different years)
Goals:
Familiarize yourself with the back end of Epic EMR and the clinical abilities and implications of use. For both operationally or community focused residents
Objectives:
Core content readings: Perspectives and evidence on IT in the clinical environment
Discussions with Dr Fernandez and Dr Lane on application of informatics in the ED and health system
Attend departmental/system informatics committee meetings (if scheduled during elective block)
Complete Epic Physician Builder course sequence
End Product:
Epic Physician Builder certificate
Resident will design and build an element in Epic in collaboration with clinical informatics leadership
FLEX ICU Elective with Dr. Jordan Bonomo
Available as 2-4 week blocks
Mix of daytime and nighttime 12 hour shifts with primary patient coverage
Attend daily education sessions
Collaborate as part of PERT and In-Hospital Code Teams
Manage Organ Donation patients
End Product: Clinical Elective - no end product required
Organ Donation Management with Dr. Jordan Bonomo
Offered: year round depending on Dr. Bonomo’s schedule
Length: 2 weeks
Goals:
Exposure to the process of organ donation, from brain death declarations to donations after circulatory death. Residents on this elective will manage all organ donors at UCMC in conjunction with LifeCenter Donor Coordinator staff, all under Dr. Bonomo’s direction. All procedures (bedside ECHO, bronchoscopy, arterial access, central lines, chest tubes) will be done by residents on the elective. During active donor cases, residents will engage in frequent contact with the donor coordinators and make all initial donor management decisions following the LifeCenter DOP. Residents will follow donors through the entire donation process, including into the OR for procurement. Extensive readings on brain death, organ donor management, ventilator management, ethics and resuscitation are required. During active donors, residents will be on call for the entire case, by phone, which may last up to 48 hrs. Schedule can be modified to accommodate a reasonable amount of time away from clinical duty on this elective if needed (AirCare, moonlighting, etc).
End product:
A prepared didactic, delivered to LifeCenter organ donor coordinator staff of 20 minutes on a critical care or resuscitation topic
Palliative Medicine with Dr. Kiser and the palliative Team
Length: 2 weeks at WCH
Goals:
Palliative Medicine can be integrated into more than just terminal patients’ care, and seeing how it can be ideally done can help those providing ED and Critical Care appreciation that care can be improved across the spectrum of care locations
Description:
Clinical time rotating and performing consults with the Palliative Care team will be held on weekday rounds, including educaitonal sessions.
End product:
Varies, from an educational presentation to a TamingtheSRU post to an evaluation of ED palliative needs (continuity of care, Epic dotphrases, etc)
Research with Dr caroline Freiermuth
Offered: All year
+ Description
Through the 2 weeks, you will initiate a research project that has been approved by Dr. Stolz through IRB approval. Additionally you will have in person sessions and asynchronous content, research methodology and planning.
During a later elective (within 9 months of the dedicated 2 week elective), we will schedule an additional 2 weeks during which to collect / interpret data and write.
The anticipated output is publication or presentation on a national stage in the form of an abstract, journal article or didactic presentation. This will also be presented at EM-RIG
+ Goals
- Introduction to generation of research ideas, through critical literature review and production of a research question. Through this, become comfortable analyzing common research techniques.
- Research project from concept to publication
Simulation with Dr. Spenser Lang
Offered: All Year
+ Goals
At the conclusion of the elective the resident will be able to:
- Design a simulation with learner-centered goals and objectives
- Manage the running and implementation of a simulation
- Demonstrate effective debriefing following a simulation
- Identify educational objectives suited to the use of simulation as an educational tool
- Create and implement an improvement measure to the physical simulation space, with instruction from the simulation faculty.
+ Description
During the elective the resident will be expected to develop a simulation (or simulations) for a learner group of their choosing. The resident will be expected to meet with simulation faculty during the development of the simulation to discuss the setting of appropriate learner-centered goals and objectives, mentally/physically run through simulation scenarios, discuss debriefing strategies and pitfalls, and to create simulation materials. The simulation faculty and resident will also meet to have a “hands on” session focusing on the simulation technology in the EM sim lab (ALSi iPad-based simulation program, SimMan 3G and associated software, task trainers, B-line audio/video broadcasting, etc.). The resident will also be provided with a reading list of simulation education literature and online resources that will help inform the case development and outline best practices for debriefing. The resident will be expected to run the developed simulation scenario with direct feedback on sim facilitation and debriefing by a member of the simulation faculty as well as create an improvement project for the physical space.
Intro to Social EM (SEM I) with Dr. Kelli Jarrell
Offered: Year round
Goals: This elective aims to introduce residents to core content in social emergency medicine, to improve residents’ understanding of social determinants of health, and to prepare residents to incorporate social context into the structure and practice of emergency care.
Description: This two-week, flexible, self-paced hybrid elective is a combination of asynchronous content and in-person clinical experiences. Residents will become familiar with local ED-based resources by spending time with both the ED-based Early Intervention Program (EIP) and the Substance Use Disorder (SUD) teams. Residents will lead one Social Emergency Medicine Journal Club on a topic of their choosing. Elective residents will complete an end product of their choosing (eg., Taming the SRU post, Discharge instructions, Curriculum resources).
Time requirement: One-half day each with EIP and SUD (typically on the same day). Optional experiences available at the resident’s request. SEM JC scheduled with consideration of residents’ availability.
Advanced Social Emergency Medicine (SEM II) with Dr. Jarrell
Offered: Year round with approval
Goals: This elective aims to allow residents to design and implement projects in social emergency medicine that are beyond the scope or time constraints of the introductory elective.
Description: This elective builds on the foundation developed in the introductory elective. This advanced elective provides residents the opportunity to develop and/or implement relevant projects. Projects may be operational, educational, or research in nature. Implementation may occur at the departmental, local, regional, or national level. Content areas must be relevant to social emergency medicine, public health, population health, and/or global health. Faculty mentorship and prior approval required.
Time requirement: Weekly meetings with project mentor
Social Emergency Medicine - Harm Reduction with Dr. Kimmel
Offered: Year round, 2-4 weeks
Goals: This elective aims to introduce residents to core content in the treatment of people with substance use, to improve the residents understanding of social determinants of health and avenues of care for people living with substance use disorders.
Description: This two-week, flexible, self-paced hybrid elective is a combination of asynchronous content and in-person clinical experiences. Residents will become familiar with local community resources through involvement with Hamilton County Public Health and the Early Intervention Program.
Time requirement: Approximately 40 hours of in-person clinical time and 10 hours of self-paced review of instructional resources. This counts as a clinical elective (no end product).
Social Emergency Medicine - Human Trafficking with Dr. Jarrell
Offered: Year round, first two weeks of every month
Goals: This elective aims to introduce residents to advanced content in social emergency medicine, specifically topics related to human trafficking.
Description: This two-week, flexible, self-paced hybrid elective is a combination of asynchronous content and in person shadowing experiences. The goal of this elective is to provide residents with tools to identify, intervene, and advocate for patients who may be victims of human trafficking (HT), including sex and labor trafficking.
Time requirement: Asynchronous two-week elective with approximately 8 hours of in person attendance
Social Emergency Medicine - advocacy with Dr. Jarrell
Offered: Block 11B, corresponding with Advocacy Day presuming it is the same in 2025
Goal: The goal of this elective is to introduce residents to the process and inner workings of advocacy work as an emergency medicine physician.
Description: Residents will complete asynchronous educational content about advocacy within emergency medicine. Additionally,
Time requirement: 2 weeks. Residents will have the opportunity to shadow a lobbyist in Columbus and attend House and Senate meetings relevant to Ohio ACEP*. End product may be proposed and developed by the resident, but options include a Taming the SRU post or brief talk during Social EM Grand Rounds.
*In order to visit Columbus for committee meetings, residents must be members of ACEP/Ohio ACEP.
Social Emergency Medicine - street medicine with Dr. Kimmel
Offered: Year round
Goals: This elective aims to introduce residents to core content in street medicine, to improve residents’ understanding of social determinants of health, and common considerations in the care of persons experiencing homelessness.
Description: This two-week, flexible, self-paced hybrid elective is a combination of asynchronous content and in-person clinical experiences. Residents will become familiar with local community resources through involvement with Hamilton County SAFE services. Residents will also spend time working clinically with NeighborHub Health Street Outreach, in conjunction with Dr. Kimmel or Dr. Jarrell. Elective residents will complete an end product of their choosing (eg., Taming the SRU post, Street Medicine Protocol, Curriculum resources).
Time requirement: Two half days with the NeighborHub Health Street Outreach team, one half days with the Hamilton County SAFE services team, one evening with MedVoUC, one evening with Bridge the Gap outreach event, and one half day touring local services. This counts as a clinical elective (no end product).
Sports Medicine with Dr. Bret Betz and Dr. Danny Gawron
Offered: Fall/Winter (3A-6A)
+ Goals
To expand the emergency medicine resident's knowledge of common MSK pathology encountered in the emergency department as well introducing the resident to sideline coverage and the responsibilities of a team physician.
+ Description
The resident will participate in Sports Medicine Clinic with Emergency Medicine/Sports Medicine trained physicians at various outpatient locations during the week, with the focus of education being on MSK pathology encountered in the emergency department. They will also have the opportunity to evaluate athletes in training room clinics at Miami University as well as participate in sideline coverage for Miami University Athletics.
+ Time Req
Typical office hours during weekdays (9a-5p). Wednesdays off for Grand Rounds. Weekend and night coverage of sporting events as dictated by resident interest and schedule.
Toxicology with Dr. Shan Yin
In conunction with CCHMC, the PEM fellowship and the Poison Control center, you will rotate for 2 weeks with a mix of asynchronous case review and time on call with poison control.
Blocks NOT available: 3B, 4A, 4B, 5A, 6A, 7A, 7B, 8A, 8B
Sample schedule for 2 week block
Day 1: Introduction to elective, introductory lecture - approx 3 hours
Day 2, 3: PC observation 4 hours each day
Day 4-9: 8 hour on call daily for the PC. 3p-11p. Resident will take calls from physicians, PAs, NPs that are calling the PC for advice on patients. Call volume varies but is not burdensome (PEM fellows have been doing this for the past 2 years)
Day 10: Journal club. Discuss articles that will be given out on day 1. 2-3 hours.
May include other webinars or lectures depending on what is going on in the tox world.
Weekends off
End Product - Case write up of supervised clinical case
Ultrasound with Dr. lori Stolz
Offered in 2w blocks
+ Goals
Stolz's Recommended Sites
ACEP Compendium - basics
Sinai EM - Tutorials and Peds
NYU sono - blog / tutorials / cases
Sonospot - comprehensive
Toronto - TTE
HQMedEd - video tutorials
AEUS - narrated videos
Critical Echo - ICU sonography
Ultrasound Cases - cases, mainly from radiology
Virginia Sono - basic tutorials with quizzes
Soundbytes - video tutorials
Vimeo Ultrasound - group of diverse videos
Ultrasound Site - MSK ultrasound
Highland US - great regional block resource
Neuraxiom - nerve block illustrations
- See/scan as much pathology as humanly possible
- Be actively involved in the sonographic evaluation of critically-ill patients. Identify areas of personal deficiency and practice these exams
- Challenge yourself with advanced scanning techniques
- Reach your goal number of scans
+ Time Req
- Obtain 100 ultrasound examinations during clinical shifts with credentialed faculty
- Actively participate in QA sessions. This includes reading the assigned paper, coming prepared with 5 cases and associated learning points and active engagement with the presentations of others.
- Complete a project chosen by you from a list of options provided by Dr.Stolz
Wilderness Medicine with Dr. Conal Roche
Offered during Medical Student Elective - 4B for 2025-2026
Description:
Resident Leader of a College of Medicine course led by Dr. Roche
Learn / reinforce rope skills, AIARE Avalanche skills, Outdoor survival skills are more depending on yearly content and can lead sessions if you have a special outdoors skill
Outside Electives
Exploring fellowships, future careers or foreign countries as part of global health initiatives are a great way to spend elective time, finance and time permitting. These can either be used as independent electives or part of another elective (OMFS clinic, NICU, ENT, Radiology Ophtho, etc). Below are some examples of rarer elective or in the rest of UC that have been valuable. Please note several of these need UC/Dept approval and therefore need at least 6 months of lead time.
+ Annals of B Pod
- 1-2 senior residents will be in charge of coordinating R1 article submissions, editorial discretion as to scientific integrity and thematic inclusion of articles.
- This elective may be taken any time R3 or R4 year as the work is longitudinal
- Depending on interests, there is availability to learn layout and Adobe Indesign, copy editing, online / interactive content generation and more. This has alway been and will continue to be a resident driven publication.
- Solicitation of interest for editorial involvement by current editors will happen around March for the upcoming year. If you have questions - reach out to the current editors.
+ West Chester / Community Operations with Dr. Summers
2 week elective for 3rd & 4th year residents
Offered: All year
In addition to getting the feel for single coverage this is also lets the resident practice the scenario of “what do I do with this patient with X without Y resource/consultant/etc.” This will also give you opportunities to pick the brains of your attendings on their thoughts and perspective about practice in the community setting and some of the ways that WCH is different/unique from more “typical” community sites.
Operations: If the resident has an interest in Operations and wants to learn more about what are important focuses, metrics, and motivations in the community setting then you can branch out of strictly clinical shifts. This would involve the monthly Operations meeting between the medical directors and associate directors of UCMC, TJH, and WCH, Community QA, WCH Patient Safety, and meeting with Dr. Shewakramani to discuss specific metrics of WCH, in addition to clinical shifts
End Project: Depending on the resident interest, he/she can develop a WCH focused QI project (potentially derived from something discussed at one of the meetings) with the option of continuing it longitudinally.
Time Requirement: - 4 clinical shifts (mix of early am and overnight) + Community Ops and QA meetings (1 hour each) - 5-7 shifts if you want a strictly clinical experience - Ops Project can be longitudinal and time requirement will vary
+ Ethics Consult Service
- Act as an on-call member of the ethics service (variable frequency)
- Attend 2nd Tuesday of the Month Ethics Meeting
- Asynchronous content to fill out core content of ethical considerations in Emergency Medicine
- End Product - Case write-up
+ Getting Ready for Residency
2025-2026 Dates:
First block - 8B - 1/26-2/6/26
Second Block - 9B - 2/23-3/6/26
2 x 2 week courses for 4th year medical students, sponsored and put on by the Department of Emergency Medicine. 2 R3/R4 residents and 2 R2 residents can sign up for this elective and will be in charge of curricular development and implementation, to include solicitation and planning lectures, running simulations.
Resident Leaders for 24-25 - Megan Wright, ADP
Faculty Sponsor - Dr. Anita Goel, Dr. Whitney Bryant
Prior course leaders - Meaghan Frederick
End Product: Supervisor teaching review
+ Ghana EM
- 2-4 week rotation in an urban, tertiary referral ED in Kumasi, Ghana
- Work alongside and teach Ghanaian EM residents
- Coordinated through University of Michigan Emergency Medicine
- Contact who has done this - Hajdu, LaFollette
+ MICU
- 2-4 week elective in the UCMC MICU
- Coordinated through LaFollette and the medicine chiefs
- Integrated into senior resident staffing model
- Contact who has done this - Grisoli, Segev, Newton
+ NICU
2 week elective available all year
NRP is needed to lead / be part of the rotation Prior to rotation email Brian Pio Brian.Pio@UCHealth.com to set up RQI, then Alicia Friedman for a 'megacode' date - Alicia.Friedman@UCHealth.com
Arranged through LaFollette and NICU education contact Missy Nurre
- Rounding with NICU team to increase comfort with the ill neonate
- Member of the Peds Code Team attending high risk deliveries
- End Product: None - clinical elective
+ OMFS
- Oral surgery clinic for extractions, dental follow up, dental blocks, abscess drainage
- Generally 7a-3p M-F
- Coordinated through Residency Coordinator Aimee Mezher (MEZHERAF@ucmail.uc.edu)
- End Product: None - clinical elective
+ Ophthalmology
- Coordinated through the ophtho consult resident (R2/R3)
- Mix of clinic time and ED consult time
- Roughly 10a-4p M,T,R,F
- Flexible with goals, based around improving slit lamp comfort and emergent pathology identification (increased IOP, gradation of posterior infectious etiologies, ulcers, etc)
- End Product: None - clinical elective
+ Emergency Radiology
- 2 week elective
- M-F, split between emergent reading room and neuro
- If specific interest (MSK, chest, neuro) - discuss when scheduling as can easily reassign rooms
- End Product: None - clinical elective
+ Wilderness Medicine at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
- 2 week remote course learning the basics of austere and disaster medicine in the woods outside of Boston
- Typically the second 2 weeks of March
- More information https://hhi.harvard.edu/education/workshops/hric
+ Wilderness Medicine in the Appalachins (Virginia)
- Act as a medical group leader in backcountry or other remote settings
- Advise a wilderness travel group concerning care and evacuation of ill or injured members
- Plan for the medical support of wilderness and adventure travel experiences
- Manage common illnesses and injuries in an austere environment with limited resources
- Understand the physician’s role in search and rescue
- Identify and plan for special hazards in a variety of extreme environments
- Demonstrate basic competence in exotic travel and wilderness survival skills
For the elective, you will be in rural Virginia in the Jefferson mountain range doing a combination of lecture, simulation, leading journal clubs, and helping instruct a concurrent 4 week medical student elective. The last stage of the elective is acting as a mentor on a 4 day 3 night backpacking trip/practical exam for the medical students. Opportunities to interact one on one with leaders in the field of wilderness medicine and work towards obtaining the Fellowship of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. More information is available here: http://wms.org/conferences/elective/
- Contact who has done this - Broadstock
