Simulation for Operational Readiness in a New Freestanding Emergency Department: Strategy and Tactics.

Simulation in multiple contexts over the course of a 10-week period served as a core learning strategy to orient experienced clinicians before opening a large new urban freestanding emergency department. To ensure technical and procedural skills of all team members, who would provide care without on-site recourse to specialty backup, we designed a comprehensive interprofessional curriculum to verify and regularize a wide range of competencies and best practices for all clinicians. Formulated under the rubric of systems integration, simulation activities aimed to instill a shared culture of patient safety among the entire cohort of 43 experienced emergency physicians, physician assistants, nurses, and patient technicians, most newly hired to the health system, who had never before worked together.

Professional development implications of Ebola virus disease education: part I.

This article is the first in a two-part series that explores how one large, integrated health care system swiftly responded to the emerging threat of Ebola virus disease. In this first article, the context and initial steps in planning staff education and training are outlined.

Professional development implications of Ebola virus disease education: part II.

This article is the second in a two-part series that explores how one large, integrated health care system swiftly responded to the emerging threat of Ebola virus disease. In this second article, the educational and training activities that were developed are described.