Back to News Releases
Date: April 7, 2009
Contact: Jennifer Forbes
Communication & Public Affairs
Phone: 732-235-6356
Email: jenn.forbes@umdnj.edu
 |
 |
 |
Second-year Student Receives Grant to Support Emergency Medicine Education Training
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School second-year student Amy Ondeyka received a grant from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine to support the Emergency Resuscitation Challenge, a competition style event for 40 second-year medical students, which Amy coordinated along with faculty and staff from the Department of Emergency Medicine.
Divided into teams, the students rotated through four stations during the clinical skills competition, which included EKG Identification, medication identification, advanced airway placement, and intravenous and intra-osseous line placement on manikins. Each team was evaluated and scored on successful procedures and answers by emergency medicine faculty and staff members who conducted the training.
At the end of the four rotations, the two top scoring teams competed in a Mock Code Challenge, during which two scenarios were given for manikins to go into cardiac arrest. The teams competed to be the first to successfully resuscitate the manikin.
The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine recognizes the valuable role of emergency medicine medical student interest groups (EMIGs) for medical students, and awards grants to support these groups' educational activities. The goals of the SAEM Education Grant for EMIGs are:
- to promote growth of emergency medicine education at the medical student level,
-
to identify new educational methodologies advancing undergraduate education in emergency medicine, and
-
to support educational endeavors of an EMIG.
Amy was one of only five students nationally to receive a grant from the Society this year.
