Dentistry's Essentials of Emergency Medicine (DEEM): A Simulation-Based Training Workshop

Dentistry's Essentials of Emergency Medicine (DEEM): A Simulation-Based Training Workshop is organized by University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry and will be held on March 23, 2024, at University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, San Francisco, California, United States of America. This activity is designated for 9 units of continuing education credit. 

Description
The DEEM training program allows participants to practice and debrief medical emergency scenarios in a high-fidelity, controlled, and safe environment. The workshop provides robust training experiences using human patient simulators, audiovisual recordings, and standardized patients. This workshop is designed to engage participants in challenging clinical cases and enable participants to problem-solve in a manner that is similar to a live clinical experience. You will use real medical equipment, learn to read a patient monitor and interact with dynamically responding patients in a fully functioning simulated dental operatory. You will receive formative performance feedback as you progress through the live training, helping to identify your strengths and areas for improvement.

This intense learning experience will be fun and educational and will empower you to be at your best with your patients in the clinical arena. The clinical scenarios are designed to meet several learning objectives, including developing your skills in not only medical knowledge but also interpersonal communication, team leadership, resuscitation dynamics, and systems-based practice.

Experts from emergency medicine, paramedicine, dental anesthesiology, and perioperative care were consulted in the development of this course content to create an evidence-based, state-of-the-art training program. This program will help you be able to recognize a patient requiring urgent or emergent care and how to initiate evaluation and management in the dental setting.

This unique simulation training workshop will include a one-hour, self-paced, virtual introduction to the workshop).

You Will Learn:

• To increase your knowledge of up-to-date emergency medicine topics important to dentistry
• To recognize the signs and symptoms of an unwell patient and determine the level of acuity
• To implement the systematic approach to assess an acutely unwell patient
• To implement an emergency action plan for a medical emergency situation
• To organize a dental team into a high-performance resuscitation team
• To evaluate vital signs continually to direct therapeutic interventions
• To execute appropriate therapeutic interventions following evidence-based guidelines
• To determine the patient disposition (home vs. hospital) for common medical urgencies and emergencies that occur in the dental setting
• To effectively transfer care to arriving emergency medical services using the SBAR communication tool
• To describe crisis resource management principles that promote effective resuscitation team dynamics
• To adapt your office team into a high-functioning emergency response team