Annual Courses

The course introduces first-year anesthesia residents to the basics of high-fidelity simulation as well as the fundamentals of clinical anesthesia. This hands-on orientation includes such topics as anesthesia machine checkout, pre-operative assessment, venous and arterial cannulation, anesthesia induction, maintenance and emergency, point- of-car ultrasound techniques and common intraoperative and postoperative complications.

Course director: Alecia Stein, MD

The practice OSCE course is designed to prepare graduating anesthesiology residents for the OSCE component of the ABA applied examination. It is led by anesthesiology faculty and aims to replicate many aspects of the OSCE experience and includes practice OSCE stations and examiner feedback.

Course director: Alecia Stein, MD

The objective of this course is to provide neurocritical critical care fellows with the necessary knowledge and expertise to adhere to the standard Difficult Airway Management Guidelines and techniques. Through training in various airway management techniques and devices including direct laryngoscopy, video laryngoscopy, laryngeal mask airway, and fiber optic intubation, the trainees will be capable of managing both anticipated and unanticipated difficult airway cases. The simulation training emphasizes the development of the essential psychomotor skills required to perform these techniques with accuracy. Trainees will then be assigned to handle a range of difficult airway scenarios on the simulator, receiving personalized feedback and enhancing their self-assurance in their abilities.

Course director: Nina Massad, MD

This workshop is a highly specialized training program designed for emergency medicine students looking to enhance their skills in managing pediatric airway emergencies. The program's primary objective is to equip participants with the essential knowledge, skills, and confidence necessary to handle complex pediatric airway cases with ease and efficiency. This comprehensive training program covers a range of topics, including pediatric airway anatomy and physiology, as well as hands-on techniques that are essential for managing complex pediatric airway emergencies. With this training, participants can develop the necessary skills to provide safe and effective care to pediatric patients in critical situations.

Course director: Sara Cortes, MD

The objective of this course is for the pediatric critical care fellows to obtain working knowledge and proficiency of standard Difficult Airway Management Guidelines and the airway management techniques. The course aims to prepare the trainees for the management of the anticipated and unanticipated pediatric difficult airway. Simulation training focuses on psychomotor skills for various airway management techniques and devices including direct laryngoscopy, indirect and video laryngoscopy, laryngeal mask airway, and fiberoptic intubation. After skill set training, trainees are presented with a range of difficult airway scenarios on the simulator, which they manage in real- time with individualized feedback to gain experience and confidence in their skills.

Course director: Joseph Dayan, MD

The course introduces first-year emergency medicine residents to the proper performance of ultrasound guided central venous catheterization, abdominal paracentesis, thoracentesis, and lumbar puncture as well as an airway and suture workshop.  The training includes proper patient positioning, aseptic technique, recognition of complications and corrective maneuvers, and a hands-on practical component.

Course directors: Christopher Freeman, MD and Patricia Panakos, MD

During this course, graduating medical students practice essential skills for their first year as residents in Emergency Medicine. The students practice responding to a variety of simulated clinical scenarios that are common within the emergency department.  The scenarios include surgical, medical, pediatric, and trauma cases.

Course director: Kelly Medwid, MD

This course prepares nurses to transition to Labor and Delivery roles within the Jackson Health System. Recent graduates practice responding to simulated perinatal critical events while following Jackson protocols.

Course director: Jahli Galloway, MSN, RN

The aim of this course is to prepare graduating medical students for their first year as residents in Obstetrics and Gynecology. It offers hands-on practice in surgical and clinical procedures by incorporating obstetric ultrasound, vaginal delivery, suturing and knot tying, cervical exams as well as handling surgical instruments.

Course directors: Ian Bishop, MD and Lydia Fein, MD

This workshop combines case simulations and task trainer stations and complements didactic teaching. Emphasis is placed on the key principles of emergent airway management outside the operating room and differences from perioperative airway management. Aimed at second-year anesthesiology residents, the workshop is designed to teach and assess their skills before the airway pager is entrusted to them.

Course director: Arpan Mehta, MD

Each year over 200 new JMH interns attend mandatory patient safety training prior to taking on specialty specific responsibilities in their departments. The Center for Patient Safety has developed an innovative curriculum to impart competencies related to their role in preventing medical errors. In the course, which runs during the first week of the intern year, the following competencies are specifically addressed: 1) handoffs; 2) teamwork and communication; 3) delivering bad news; 4) identify and review the elements of a Root Cause Analysis (RCA); and 5) disclosure of an adverse event.

Course directors: Yvonne Diaz, MD and Alecia Stein, MD

Interns practice techniques for Intravenous (IV), Intraosseous Infusion (IO), and Lumbar Puncture (LP) procedures on realistic pediatric task trainers. The interactive training session allows small groups of interns to rotate among the various specialized trainers to acquire skill acquisition while under the direction and guidance of pediatric faculty.

Course director: Monica Alba-Sandoval, MD

During this course, graduating medical students practice essential skills for their first year as residents in Pediatrics. The skills include bag-mask Ventilation, IV placement and lumbar puncture. Also, various simulated cases are presented in a RCDP instructional format. Rapid-Cycle Deliberate Practice (RCDP) is a simulation-based instructional strategy that focuses on rapid acquisition of necessary skills. It provides gradually more challenging simulation rounds in rapid repetition with brief direct expert feedback throughout the session, contrary to traditional debriefing where learning is taught after the scenario. In recent years, RCDP’s use in training emergency clinical situations has been associated with improvement in team performance in several different studies.

Course director: Monica Alba-Sandoval, MD

A key inflection point of the NextGenMD curriculum, this one-week course for the 2nd year medical students (approximately 200) is geared towards teaching patient safety within the health care field. The Bootcamp sessions provide students with the requisite knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes to prevent adverse medical events. The following competencies are addressed throughout the week and include: 1) recognizing an unstable patient and calling for help; 2) teamwork and communication; 3) situational awareness in the context of a patient encounter; and 4) identifying ways to improve patient outcomes.

Course director: Alecia Stein, MD