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Bridging the Gap Between the Care for Children Given at PEDs and EDs in Community Hospitals

Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian, Columbia University

Aimed at helping babies cared for in community emergency departments where very ill infants and children are seen only occasionally, this program will provide general emergency medicine physicians with the training necessary to bridge the gap between the care given for babies and children at pediatric emergency departments (PEDs) and general emergency departments (EDs). Specifically, R Baby Foundation has funded the establishment of a more effective training module by leveraging real-life examples and setting up a novel learning and testing approach.

                                                                                                                                  FIRST YEAR ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Columbia University, working with Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian, set up an initial platform comprising of real life examples of sick infants under one year of age to establish an educational communications service. In year one, the program began improving physician knowledge at Columbia. This program is being tested at two NYC hospitals with a plan to optimize and then be made available to the entire NYC base of PED ED and community ED practitioners, with a national program ultimately contemplated. The national programs would vary and focus on two distinct populations of practitioners 1) IT program which is available to medical student and resident training programs through the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics, the Association of American Medical Colleges and PECARN (Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network); 2) Phone consultation and the IT fever guideline (for community EM practitioners).
Columbia’s achievements included establishing an online case repository with ninety cases including important clinical variants and preliminary development of an online reference website including treatment guidelines and descriptions of evidence-based data supporting the guidelines. Virtual experts were also made available as an enhancement to this online, “digital” and ongoing educational and informational platform.