Procedural Skill

Before Graduation, the Fellowship requires its fellows to demonstrate proficiency in:

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• Performance of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures;

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• Management of critically-ill and injured patients who present to the emergency department, prioritizing critical initial stabilization and reassessing after a stabilizing intervention;

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• Performing critical actions for patient care in an appropriate order

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• Generating a differential diagnosis for an undifferentiated patient;​

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• Performance of invasive procedures, managing unstable patients, and directing major resuscitations of all types on all age groups;

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• Performing indicated procedures on all appropriate patients, including those who are uncooperative, at the extremes of age, hemodynamically unstable and who have multiple co-morbidities, poorly defined anatomy, high risk for pain or procedural complications, or require sedation, taking steps to avoid potential complications; and recognizing the outcome and/or complications resulting from the procedures;