Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Simulation Curriculum for Multidisciplinary Trainees
Faculty Information
Name:
Dr. Wei Wang
Email
wwang29@peds.ufl.edu
Phone
(407) 431-5921
Faculty Department/Division
Medical Education Research
This project is primarily:
Clinical
Research Project Description:
Background
This project involves the simulation curriculum portion of a larger pediatric cardiac critical care “boot camp’ curriculum. Although fellowship “boot camps” have been well established as an integral part of the general pediatric critical care fellowship curriculum, few similar programs exist to prepare pediatric/neonatal critical care and cardiology fellows for the cardiac critical care portion of their training. Three years ago, we developed a standardized beginner pediatric cardiac critical care “boot camp” curriculum with the goal of ensuring adequate coverage of core principles and objectives essential to all fellow trainees (pediatric critical care, pediatric cardiology, and neonatology fellows) in the PCICU. This year (2026)- we expanded the simulation portion of the bootcamp from 2 simulation scenarios to 6 scenarios.
Methods
All pediatric critical care, neonatal critical care, pediatric cardiology fellow trainees who rotate through the PCICU at University of Florida Congenital Heart Center have participated in our “boot camp” curriculum for two years as of now. Our curriculum initially consisted of four one-hour long didactic sessions, three hands-on workshops, and two low fidelity simulation sessions over 2 days. For this year (2026), we are joined by pediatric fellows from Jackson Memorial and our simulation scenarios have expanded to 6 scenarios, with official critical action checklists and debriefing tools. Fellows are surveyed on their perception of comfort with core pediatric cardiac critical care principles prior to the start of the simulations, and after the simulations
Students will be responsible for inputting data from feedback questionnaires and simulation assessment forms from this current year (approximately 250-300 survey entries) onto a data base and assisting with a plan for qualitative data analysis of the simulation curriculum. We plan on publishing 1-3 manuscripts of our simulation curriculum. Opportunities are available for presentation at institutional conferences such as Peds Science day, UF COM celebration of research, and regional conferences such as the Pediatric Medical Student Research Forum. The previous student I have mentored earned first place at the PMSRF this previous year. Students will be included in the manuscript publication of these simulation scenarios if they dedicate a significant amount of effort to this project.
This entire portion of the project can be done remotely – as it involves inputting data from paper surveys onto a data base. meetings can be arranged on zoom. I do expect students to be proactive in communication by email, phone and text, organized, and timely in responses and accomplishing tasks.
Students should ideally have a strong interest in medical education, medical simulation (ideally should have some prior experience in simulation participation, leadership, or curriculum development), critical care medicine, pediatric cardiology, pediatric critical care medicine, anesthesiology, or emergency medicine. Past experience in manuscript publication (or scientific writing in general) and conference presentations (poster, podium presentations) are preferred, especially if you plan to do this work remotely.
Does this project have an international component or travel?
No
The Effect of Learning Culture on Feedback to Medical Students
Faculty Information
Name:
Dr. Phuong Huynh
Email
phuong.huynh@ufl.edu
Phone
(352) 273-7985
Faculty Department/Division
Medical Education Research
This project is primarily:
Translational
Research Project Description:
This project explores clerkship faculty’s attitudes toward providing corrective feedback and to examine how these attitudes relate to the institutional learning culture, including the faculty’s perceptions of potential consequences of providing corrective feedback. This project was a grant proposal that is accepted and we are looking for a student to collaborate with faculty from UFCOM and other medical schools.
Does this project have an international component or travel?
No