Work in progress: How can you balance ED crowding and education?
I’m working on writing a CORD consensus article on the impact of ED crowding on education and innovations towards maintaining educational excellence. We posited 2 scenarios of ED crowding:
- Overwhelming numbers of active ED patients
- Many ED boarders who are awaiting inpatient beds and who are taking up rooms which normally would have been used to see new patients
What approaches do you know of which improve the ED educational experience for learners? We have thus far categorized innovations into 3 areas: