Foundations III
Foundations III is an advanced curriculum targeting PGY3/4 learners with a focus on the “Art of Emergency Medicine”. F3 provides a mix of critical care sessions and topics that are crucial to daily EM practice, but have traditionally been neglected within resident education (e.g. billing and coding, medicolegal pitfalls, decision-making capacity, care of vulnerable populations, wellness, etc). This course includes 30 classroom meetings (50 min) led by a single instructor, including topic discussion and breakout activities. Suggested paired asynchronous content is available for reference. Content may also be used for independent study if F3 is not officially implemented by your program leadership.
Please make sure your session leaders review the Foundations III Instructor Guide prior to facilitating the meetings below.
Selected topics within F3 are appropriate for any level learner.
Paired assessments for selected F3 units are now available to programs who have Rosh Review or PEER subscriptions.
Virtual Conference– For adapted use of this course in the virtual setting, please review our Virtual FoEM page.
Foundations III Meetings
Mouse over non-linked Asynchronous Resources for full title
Meeting | Unit & Session | Meeting Resources | Asynchronous Resources |
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1 | Personal Development: Physician Wellness I 1) Burnout and Resilience 2) Mindfulness 3) Develop Mindfulness Practices for the ED 4) Self-reflection 5) Practice Self-reflection | Teaching Guide Guided Meditation | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
2 | Ethics: AMA and Capacity 1) Decision Making Capacity 2) Against Medical Advice | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
3 | Special Populations: Care of the Psychiatric Patient in the ED 1) Initial Management of the Severly Agitated Patient 2) Medical Evaluation of the Potential Psychiatric Patient 3) Management of the Boarding Psychiatric Patient | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
4 | Clinical Skills: Workplace Violence and Disaster Management 1) Mass Casualty Incidents (MCI) and Disasters 2) Active Shooter Situations 3) Workplace Violence | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
5 | Clinical Skills: Rural EM and EMTALA 1) STEMI Management in Resource Limited Settings 2) EMTALA and Inter-hospital Transfers 3) Thrombolytics in STEMI 4) EMS Personnel 5) Limited Resource Medicine | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
6 | Personal Development: The Job Hunt I 1) Practice Environments 2) The Application Timeline 3) Cover Letter and CV Development | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
7 | Personal Development: Physician Mental Health Emergencies 1) Depression and Suicidality 2) Suicidality and Physician Impairment | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
8 | Ethics and Clinical Skills: End of Life Care and Surrogacy 1) Understanding Advanced Care Planning Documents and Surrogacy 2) Goals of Care Discussions 3) End-of-Life Care | Teaching Guide Learner Activity | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
9 | Personal Development: Personal Finance I 1) Savings and Budgeting 2) Investing Basics 3) Renting or Buying your Residence | Teaching Guide Learner Activity | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
10 | Special Populations: Analgesia Stewardship 1) The USA Opioid Epidemic and Pain Control in the ED 2) Communicating with Patients with Opioid Use Disorders 3) Opioid Withdrawal | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
11 | Critical Care: Acute RV Failure 1) Right heart failure basics 2) Managing right heart failure | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
12 | Non-Clinical Skills: Team Leadership and Conflict Resolution 1) Team Leadership basics 2) Working with advanced practice providers 3) Basics of conflict management | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation |
13 | Personal Development: Personal Finance II 1) Disability Insurance 2) Life Insurance 3) Student Loan Management | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
14 | Critical Care: Physiologically Unstable Intubations 1) Hypoxic Intubations 2) Hypotensive Intubations 3) Acidotic Intubations | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
15 | Personal Development: Physician Wellness II (Errors and Second Victim) 1) Medical Errors 2) Second Victim Syndrome | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
16 | Personal Development: The Job Hunt II 1) The Job Interview 2) Contract Basics | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
17 | Critical Care: The Critically Ill Vented Patient 1) Pre-intubation management 2) The Slowly Worsening Ventilated Patient 3) The Crashing Ventilated Patient | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
18 | Special Populations: Geriatric Care 1) Introduction to geriatric care 2) Dementia in the ED 3) Diposition of the geriatric patient 4) High Risk Medications and Falls | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
19 | Special Populations: Sex Based Crimes 1) Sexual Assault 2) Sex Trafficking | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation
Paired Resources |
20 | Critical Care: Cardiogenic Shock (LV) 1) Cardiogenic Shock 2) Left Ventricular Assist Devices | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
21 | Non-Clinical Skills: Residents as Teachers | Teaching Guide Learner Reference | |
22 | Non-Clinical Skills: Billing and Coding 1) Overview of Documentation and Billing 2) Review of 2023 E/M Coding Guidelines 3) Practice Documentation and Coding | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
23 | Critical Care: Advanced ACLS 1) Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation 2) Pseudo-PEA | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
24 | Non-Clinical Skills: Bias in Medicine 1) Basics of bias in medicine 2) Gender bias | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
25 | Personal Development: Medical Malpractice 1) Epidemiology of medical malpractice and basic legal terminology 2) Risk Mitigation 3) Anatomy of a lawsuit | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
26 | Clinical Skills: Patient Centered Communication and Breaking Bad News | Teaching Guide | |
27 | Clinical Skills: Child Abuse and Neglect 1) Non-Accidental Trauma - History and Exam 2) NAT - Medical Decision Making and Resource Utilization | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation Paired Resources |
28 | Special Populations: Special Needs Children 1) Care of the Autistic Child 2) Care of the Child with Chronic Medical Conditions | Teaching Guide | Paired Resources |
29 | Special Populations: Transgender Patients and Domestic Violence 1) Overview of terminology and introduction to transgender medicine 2) Silicone Embolism Syndrome 3) Chest Binding | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation
Paired Resources |
30 | Special Populations: Working with Immigrant Patients 1) Appropriate use of language assistance 2) "Medical Spanish" | Teaching Guide | Suggested Preparation
Paired Resources |
31 | Non-Clinical Skills: Patient Handoffs 1) Introduction & Best Practice Analysis 2) Review Standardized Handoff Tools 3) Handoff Practice Cases | Teaching Guide | Paired Resources |