#303 - Improving resident debriefing following critical events in the NICU

In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr Kelsey Kirkman who is now a third year Neonatology fellow at Texas Children’s Hospital. Kelsey shared with us her primary fellow project on creating a debrief tool for residents following critical events in the NICU. She describes in depth about how she came up with this idea and how she found her mentor to help support and navigate her medical education interest.  We talked about medical education theories and how to perform a thematic analysis. We talk about her challenges in implementing her project and how she tackled them. We also discussed how she took her medical education research to the next level by pursuing a Masters in Medical education through UT Houston. She shared insights on how she balanced fellowship training with her masters. Kelsey also shared her lessons learnt from her experience and provided some of the resources that helped her understand medical education better. Kelsey hopes to have a medical career in a leadership role, leading a training program, and applying her knowledge in medical education in improving neonatology subspeciality training. 

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