The Art of Asking Questions as a Gateway to Effective Feedback

Demian Szyld (pronounced “shield”), is an Attending Physician at Boston Medical Center where he cares for acutely ill and injured and enjoys being on high-performance teams and teaching at the bedside. He is the Director of Innovation in Education and Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs.

Demian trained in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and was the first Simulation and Education Fellow at the STRATUS Simulation Center at BWH. During that time he completed a Master’s in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

His academic and scholarly focuses on evidence based approaches to teaching and assessing clinical skills and more recently on bringing the techniques of reflection and debriefing to the clinical setting. His current focus is Debriefing in the Clinical Environment and Faculty Development.

Demian grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina until the age of 14. His mother, grandmother and other extended family still live there. Demian currently lives in Cambridge, MA with his family who speak Spanish, English and Bengali.

Ernesto Romo, MD, currently works at Washington University School of Medicine at Saint Louis in the Department of Emergency Medicine. He completed an emergency medicine residency at Cook County Hospital inChicago. He also completed a simulation fellowship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. He is the director of diversity, equity and inclusion and the director of simulation for the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Romo also serves as a coach for medical students at Washington University. Dr. Romo was previously an assistant program director. He is father to the most magnificent daughters and these days enjoys discovering the universe alongside them.