Pediatric Emergency Medicine Skills Course for Pediatricians 6.19.2025

This is an intensive one day course designed for pediatricians who would like more experience with pediatric emergency scenarios.  This course is geared specifically for the pediatrician working in an urgent care setting or emergency department and also for the pediatric hospitalist who may be called upon to respond to an emergency.  We will provide hands on training in critical pediatric emergency skills.  This will include pediatric specific airway management techniques and pediatric resuscitation procedures.  Using high fidelity simulation, this course will also focus on the crisis resource management skills needed to successfully manage a critically ill pediatric patient.

Target Audience

Pediatricians Registration Fee:

$350.00

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss priorities of care for the pediatric patient
  • Identify indicators of illness and injury in the pediatric patient
  • List unique features of the pediatric airway
  • Use appropriate airway adjuncts to secure a pediatric airway
  • Describe the management of pediatric cardiac emergencies
  • Determine when to emergently refer patients to a pediatric cardiologists 
  • Describe techniques to obtain vascular access in pediatric patients
  • Use appropriate medications in pediatric resuscitation
  • Discuss the newest recommendations for advanced life support in pediatric patients
  • Manage complex children in the Emergency Department
  • Develop an approach to common and unusual pediatric illnesses encountered in the Emergency Department

 

Contact information:  If you have any questions about this course, please contact Nemours Children’s Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) at (302)651-6719 or [email protected]

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 7.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    The Nemours Foundation is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    The Nemours Foundation designates this activity for a maximum of 7.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 7.00 Continuing Education
    This activity is designated for 7.00 continuing education credits.
Course opens: 
06/19/2025
Course expires: 
12/19/2025
Cost:
$350.00

7:45 am - Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 am - Welcome and Course Overview

8:10 am - Pediatric Cardiac Emergencies

8:50 am - Introduction to Skills

9:00 am - Pediatric Skills Stations

10:30 am - BREAK

10:45 am - Pediatric Skills Stations 

12:15 pm - LUNCH

12:45 pm - Overview of Simulation Sessions

1:00 pm - Pediatric Simulation Sessions

2:00 pm - BREAK

2:15 pm - Pediatric Simulations Sessions

3:45 pm - Wrap-up and Questions

4:00 pm - Adjourn 

Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware
1600 Rockland Rd
Wilmington, DE
United States

This course will be held in the 3rd floor lecture hall, classrooms, and simulation center of Nemours Children’s Hospital

 

Disclosure link: 
Nemours Disclosure Form

Nemours is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education to physicians. Nemours Children's designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  

Available Credit

  • 7.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    The Nemours Foundation is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    The Nemours Foundation designates this activity for a maximum of 7.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 7.00 Continuing Education
    This activity is designated for 7.00 continuing education credits.

Price

Cost:
$350.00
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