Administration Rotation
Assignments:
- Complete Administration Curriculum (see below)
- Read White Coat Investor book
- Read Ideal Team Player book
- Complete DISC assessment - Contact Dr. Quentin Reuter
Individual Meetings:
- Personal Finance
a. Contact Dr. Dave Scott (dscott@usacs.com) regarding personal finance lectures and coaching.
- Schedule a meeting with Dr. Kevin Markowski regarding Departmental QI.
- Schedule a meeting with Dr. Mark McDowell regarding patient complaint process.
Group Meetings:
- Meeting invites will be sent to you.
- ED Ops/Department Meeting - third Tuesday from 8-11 AM
a. To give presentation at Departmental meeting on Resident update/issues.
Emergency Medicine Administration Rotation Curriculum
Goal: Enhance Senior resident's understanding of the administrative, clinical and educational aspects of academic, community and hospital based emergency medicine.
Objectives:
Patient Care:
Demonstrate literacy on issues of
- EMTALA Compliance
- ED management, clinical operations and finance
- Contract principles and managed care
- Documentation, billing and coding
- Liability and Risk Management
- Provide patient care for assigned shifts and on call back- up schedule for the Emergency Department.
Interpersonal and Communication Skills:
- Understand principles of people management and how to apply appropriate management styles to common emergency department scenarios.
- Demonstrate competence on the following:
- Teamwork
- Interdepartmental Relationships
- Customer Service & Patient Satisfaction
- Develop comfort and skill in presenting to small and large groups on emergency medicine topics.
- Develop public relations and social media skills for emergency medicine.
Practice Based Learning and Improvement:
- Understand and apply triage methods by validating cases using the Emergency Severity Index.
- Understand and apply appropriate documentation and coding to an Emergency Medicine encounter
- Analyze medical records and present Morbidity and Mortality cases designed to reduce error and improve physician and staff performance in the ED.
- Give core competency-based feedback to emergency medicine learners.
Professionalism:
- Exercise time management by designing schedule and completing assigned projects during rotation month.
Systems Based Practice:
- Develop and complete an administrative Continuing Quality Improvement (CQI) project.
- Understand and make recommendations to develop systems designed to reduce error, provide efficient processing of emergency medicine patients through the emergency department and improve physician and staff performance in the ED.
