Publications by authors named "Selin T Sagalowsky"

Article Synopsis
  • - Family presence during pediatric resuscitations is beneficial, but there's variation in how healthcare providers support it; a new curriculum was developed to standardize this training for all healthcare team members as Family Presence Facilitators (FPFs).
  • - The curriculum was created using a structured six-step approach, featuring live sessions, asynchronous learning, and real-life simulations to enhance understanding and skills related to family support in medical emergencies.
  • - Feedback from 153 participants indicated that the majority found the training enjoyable and felt it significantly improved their abilities to communicate empathetically and supportively with families, highlighting its potential to enhance patient care experiences.
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Simulation-based health professions educators can advance diversity, equity, and inclusion by cultivating structural competency, which is the trained ability to discern inequity not only at an individual level, but also at organizational, community, and societal levels. This commentary introduces Metzl and Hansen's Five-Step Model for structural competency and discusses its unique applicability to the metacognitive underpinnings of simulation-based health professions education. We offer a pragmatic guide for simulation-based health professions educators to collaboratively design learning objectives, simulation cases, character sketches, and debriefs in which structural competency is a simulation performance domain, alongside patient management, resource usage, leadership, situational awareness, teamwork, and/or communication.

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Introduction: Communication, failures during patient handoffs are a significant cause of medical error. There is a paucity of data on standardized handoff tools for intershift transitions of care in pediatric emergency medicine (PEM). The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) initiative was to improve handoffs between PEM attending physicians (i.

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Introduction: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) adopted educational milestones for trainee assessment in 2013, as a key component of the Next Accreditation System. Two years later, the ACGME, American Board of Pediatrics (ABP), and American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) collaborated to create specialty-specific subcompetencies in pediatric emergency medicine (PEM). Since that time, emerging data have demonstrated the need to revise specialty milestones.

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Chronic non-infectious osteomyelitis (CNO) is a rare, inflammatory process associated with pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Signs and symptoms of CNO parallel scurvy, a nutritional deficiency that can affect children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This is the first report of a child initially thought to have scurvy, then subsequently diagnosed with CNO as the presenting manifestation of Crohn's disease.

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The global pandemic novel coronavirus 2019 has upended healthcare and medical education, particularly in disease epicenters such as New York City. In this piece, we seek to describe the collective experiences and lessons learned by the New York City pediatric emergency medicine fellowship directors in clinical, educational, investigative, and psychological domains, in hopes of engendering conversation and informing future disaster response efforts.

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Introduction: Repetitive paediatric simulation (scenario-debrief-scenario; RPS) is an instructional design that allows immediate application of learner-directed feedback, in contrast to standard simulation (scenario-debrief; STN). Our aim was to examine the impact of RPS embedded within a paediatric resident simulation curriculum, comparing it to STN.

Methods: In this prospective educational cohort study, paediatric residents were enrolled in STN (n=18) or RPS (n=15) groups from August 2012 through June 2013.

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Background: Burnout is prevalent among pediatric residents, and reducing burnout is a priority for pediatric residency programs. Understanding residents' personal circumstances, including relationship satisfaction and perceived work-life conflict, may identify novel determinants of burnout.

Objectives: To describe intimate partner relationships among pediatric residents and examine associations among relationship satisfaction, work-life factors, and burnout.

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