This course covers the basics of creating and implementing simulations in your institution. This is a small, interactive course that includes TeamStepps.
*This course is a prerequisite for the Advanced Train the Trainer Master Class breakout session at the ACM.

*Please note, these sessions run concurrently. You will be prompted to select your workshop option for each afternoon when completing the meeting registration form.

HOCUS POCUS! An OB/GYN’s Guide to the Magic of Point of Care Ultrasound

Learning Objectives are as follows:

• At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
• To become familiar with how to perform basic point of care ultrasound to structures outside the pelvis including the lungs, IVC, heart, & abdomen
• To learn how to use POCUS to assess fluid status
• To learn how to integrate POCUS into an OB/GYN’s clinical practice

Course Description:

• “Want to know why your patient is desatting and if your patient has pulmonary edema vs atelectasis right away? Tired of waiting for several hours for an x-ray or even days for an echo? Learn how to perform point of care ultrasound on the lungs, heart, and assess fluid status to provide a dynamic, cost-effective, and efficient clinical assessment of your OB/GYN patient and improve patient care! As obstetrician gynecologists, we are excellent sonographers however often do not have much experience scanning patients outside of the abdomen and pelvis. This lecture will review how to perform basic point of care ultrasound to structures outside the pelvis including how to assess for pulmonary edema, atelectasis, fluid status, ejection fraction, and so much more! This lecture will also review how to integrate POCUS into an OB/GYN’s daily clinical practice. Please join to see the magic of point of care ultrasound!”

Train the Trainer Master Class: Detailed Exploration into Quality Improvement and Simulation Strategies

(Must have previously attended SOGH Train the Trainer simulation course at any prior ACM)

Train the Trainer Master Class will build upon concepts previously learned in the SOGH traditional Train the Trainer course. This interactive breakout session is hands on from start to finish. Participants will need a lap top to gain the optimal benefit from this experience. The breakout session will begin by walking participants step by step through creating low and high-fidelity simulations. Participants will learn how to create simulations on a budget and how to make their own simulation props. This course will guide learners through creating table top simulations using power point presentations, as well as, the creation of the virtual simulations as used by SOGH. We will explore the development of engaging simulations such as escape rooms that may be created in the physical environment and the virtual format. Next, we will discuss how building diversity, equity, inclusion and LGBTQ+ into your simulations enhances the educational experience of your learners. This results in comprehensive care of your patients. Lastly, we will review tips and tricks for facilitators, how to respectfully and empathically redirect conversations in the traumatized learner and other effective debriefing strategies.

Advanced Fetal Monitoring

(Available to virtual attendees)
*Course description coming soon

OB Emergency Department Breakout Session

The Obstetric Emergency Department is an integral component of many Ob/Gyn Hospitalist programs. This course will supply attendees with the tools needed to stand up and sustain an OB ED in their institution. The course directors each have personal experience creating and running an OB ED and are eager share their hard-won knowledge. Specific topics covered will include:

• Operational Stand Up: physical plant requirements, licensure, signage, DPH, patient experience.
• Care pathways: facilitating standardized care and expansion of the Ob/Gyn attending, resident and labor nurse knowledge base to care for common ED presentations in pregnancy, collaboration with ED physicians, and guiding non-obstetric facilities through obstetric emergencies.
• Effective documentation and billing: ED specific documentation that is efficient, complete and satisfies required elements for ED billing.
• Optimizing opportunities for learners: how to take advantage of hands-on learning for medical students, Ob/Gyn and FP residents, CNM, nurses and attending providers, and ensuring admin is aware of this “value added” element of your program.
• Commonly encountered barriers and challenges
• Breakout opportunities for small group discussion: “ask the expert”