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Simulation
Simulation Design and Curriculum
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Worked with a group to design a simulation center. Created multiple simulation scenarios and designed simulation curriculum after needs assessment of community emergency department nurses, physicians, and physician extenders. Raised funds for further simulation design and staffing. As a group, recipient of Johns Hopkins Innovations in Care award.
Procedures
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Central Line Placement
QI project to decrease central line infection rate with multifactorial interventions including video training, resident conference educations, and hands-on modules.
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Chest Tube Placement
Low fidelity simulation using garbage cans and pork ribs, remote just-in-time video, and a interdepartment wokflow for management of pneumothoraces
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Nerve blocks and tendon repair
Simulation using pig feet and gelatin media for fascia illiaca blocks and extensor tendon repair
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OB-GYN
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Emergencies
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Developed comprehensive emergency OB-GYN curriculum as part of residency core curriculum. Designed and recommended small-group sessions, shorter lectures, visual diagnosis, and pharmacology-in-pregnancy lectures
Orthopedics
Ortho Hors D'ouvres
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A 4-year spaced repetition curriculum of case-based and integrated orthopedics learning points throughout the year to generate repeated exposure to orthopedics injury and better retention of principles.
Humanities
Asynchronous Medical Humanities Curriculum
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Designed and currently precept 7 unique 2-week courses in the medical humanities. These courses are based in a particular humanities media and require engagement with daily topics and a final deliverable. In the past 5 years of this curriculum, the medical humanities electives have been taken 59 times by our residents.
Lectures
Lectures
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Statistics Ethics
Obstetrics/Gynecology EMS Sepsis
Pulmonary EMS Toxicology
Psychiatry EMS Stroke
Transfusion Reactions Cirrhosis
Orthopedics Airway interventions
Asymptomatic Hypertension Geriatrics
Boards
Review
Brief In-Training Exam Session​
Integrated boards boards question review, covering test taking strategy, high-yield knowledge points, and organizational principles.
Uses spaced repetition to review concepts covered in the months' previous conference curriculum.
Testimonials
​ACEP:
"Great talk and wonderful teaching style! Wish she had been one of my faculty or attending 20 yrs ago."
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"Outstanding speaker, engaging. Able to provide a lot of info in a clear, concise manner."
EMS:
"Dr Luz is the only one who should be teaching us."
"Keep bringing Dr Luz back."
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