Emergency Medicine Beyond the Emergency Department: Digital and Telehealth Training Needs (Workforce Committee and Telehealth Interest Group Sponsored)

Telehealth and digital means of patient assessment and care delivery is an increasing part of medicine at large. This is a domain where the EM workforce of the future may be increasingly capable of making value-added contributions as we are expert at determining acuity, need for advanced care, indication for imaging or lab based evaluation, and timing of further care plans. However this is a skillset where residents currently get minimal or variable training. This didactic will bring several speakers along different phases of care outside of the ED to address current best practices and future needs both for the growth of our speciality in general and for learners and educators now. We will present a panel including a) a current expert of telehealth education at the resident and medical student level b) an expert on integration of pre-hospital telehealth c) a health system specialist who is far along in bringing telehealth into ED and other care encounters. Each speaker will present short content relative to best CURRENT practices and opportunities for FUTURE growth that could increase the ability for emergency medicine trained physicians of the future to deliver care outside the physical ED in a manner that meets patients needs, quality, and safety. Where possible we will emphasize research and data either that exists or that needs to be part of future growth.

Presenters:

  • Joselyn Miller, DO
  • Neel Naik, MD
  • Emily M. Hayden, MD
  • D. Mark Courtney, MD MSci
  • Kendall McKenzie, MD
Authors

  • Joselyn Miller, DO

    University of Connecticut

    Joselyn Miller, DO is a PGY3 resident at the University of Connecticut Emergency Medicine Residency and incoming fellow of Emergency Medical Services at The University of Mississippi Medical Center. After recognizing the important role of telehealth in bridging the gap of communities that were traditionally underserved, she started to pursue academic opportunities to prepare and education trainees for the workforce needs. While continuing her pursuit of medical education, she has gained an immense passion for mentoring youth, serving the underserved, advocating for health equity/wellbeing, and prehospital care.

  • Neel Naik, MD

    NYP-Weill Cornell Medicine

    "I am currently sssistant professor of emergency medicine, director of EM simulation education. Current Member-At-Large SAEM Simulation Board, Education Small Group Leader SAEM 2020 Telemedicine Consensus Conference. Since I started on the SAEM Simulation Board in the spring of 2020, I have had the responsibility of developing the social media presence of the Simulation Academy. In my time, we have successfully overcome limitations to the account and have actively been tweeting academy updates. Moreover, in order to better serve our members, we have been highlighting publications by our members to increase visibility and continuously promote our members. Through our activity on social media, I have almost doubled the number of followers we have and grown our membership. I have also sought to actively communicate with our membership through regular SAEM Pulse updates to reach those who are not active on social media. As the Vice President of Social Media and Communications, I hope to continue to expand our ability to communicate with our membership, to foster community, announce academy events and promote content created by members of our academy. I hope to continue to grow our social media presence, double our follower base and be a megaphone for our community."

    Dr. Neel Naik is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine. He completed his residency and simulation fellowship at New York University/Bellevue Hospital Center, where he developed skills in curriculum design and remediation. Dr. Naik is the Director of Simulation Education at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Department of Emergency Medicine, where he is developing and implementing an enterprise-wide telemedicine education platform as part of the Weill Cornell Medicine’s Center for Virtual Care. He is involved in telemedicine education nationally and directs telemedicine education for all medical students at Weill Cornell Medicine leading to him being awarded the 2019 SAEM Simulation Innovation Award. In addition to simulation education, Dr. Naik is interested in innovation in instructional design and all areas of medical education. He has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications in education, directs a national group studying telemedicine education for the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, and is a nationally known expert in this evolving topic.

  • Emily Hayden, MD, MHPE

    Massachusetts General Hospital

    Emily M. Hayden, MD, MHPE is an attending physician and Director of Telehealth in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Director of the Emergency Medicine Telehealth Research Lab, Division of Health Services Research, Mass General Brigham. She co-founded the Mobile Response Program and Virtual Observation Unit which utilizes telehealth and community paramedicine provide acute, unscheduled care to patients in their homes. Dr. Hayden is the founding Chair of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Telehealth Interest Group, Chair of the SAEM 2020 Consensus Conference on Telehealth in Emergency Medicine, Chair of the Education Subcommittee on the recent American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Telehealth Task Force, and the Chair of both the ACEP Emergency Telehealth Section and the ACEP Health Innovations Technology Committee. She is a member of the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) Telehealth Advisory Committee that developed the AAMC Telehealth Competencies. She is the Course Director for a self-paced online interprofessional telehealth course, “Telehealth Foundations: Applications Across the Professions”. Dr. Hayden’s research focuses on telehealth in emergency medicine, from the use of telehealth nationally for transfer coordination to the comparison of telehealth to in-person physical examinations. Prior to her work in telehealth, Dr. Hayden spent a decade in healthcare simulation and developed the TeleSimulation program at MGH Learning Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital.

  • D. Mark Courtney, MD MSci

    Executive Vice Chair, Academic Affairs

    University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

    Dr. D. Mark Courtney is a Professor and Executive Vice Chair of Academic Affairs in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Courtney works clinically at Clements University Hospital, a large quaternary care center serving complex care patients in North Texas, and Parkland Memorial Hospital, the busiest emergency department by volume in the US. His main areas of interest are diagnostic test assessment, pretest probability for cardiopulmonary and vascular disease, and the detection and treatment of PE starting in the emergency department. He is a former Board Member and President of SAEM. Dr. Courtney's more recent academic interests beyond the scope of thrombosis and hemostasis include professional coaching as a tool to enhance wellbeing and happiness.

  • Kendall McKenzie, MD

    University of Mississippi Medical Center

    Kendall McKenzie, MD is a Professor of Emergency Medicine and serves as Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He is the Executive Director of the TelEmergency Program at UMMC. Dr. McKenzie has fellowship training in EMS and Disaster Medicine. He recently completed a 25-year career with the US Army. His ultimate position was that of State Surgeon for the MSARNG.

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