Sharpening the Edge: Essential EM Skills for Today’s Clinician

Greenville, SC US
October 2, 2025

The vision of this activity is to create an interactive, team-based learning environment where emergency medicine faculty, advanced provider clinicians, and residents can refine, update, and standardize core clinical skills essential to high-quality patient care. Through multiple rotating skill stations, participants will engage in deliberate practice, receive immediate feedback, and strengthen both technical proficiency and teaching techniques. The intention is two-fold: to ensure faculty remain current in evidence-based procedural standards while simultaneously modeling effective bedside teaching strategies for residents. By fostering collaboration across training levels, this workshop enhances clinical consistency, supports faculty development as educators, and promotes resident confidence and competence. Ultimately, the activity aims to align clinical practice with institutional and national standards, improving patient safety and outcomes while cultivating a culture of continuous learning.

Target Audience

Primary Audience

  • Practicing Physicians, Residents

Secondary Audience

  • Fellows, Medical Students, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants

Specialty

  • Emergency Medicine

Learning Objectives

As a result of participating in this learning activity, participants will...

  • Have increased knowledge of the indications, contraindications, evidence-based protocols, and stepwise approaches to high-acuity, low-frequency procedures in emergency medicine, reviewing key concepts, relevant anatomy, procedural steps, and current best practices.
  • Have updated guidelines, pearls and pitfalls, and clinical decision-making frameworks specific to transvenous pacing, resuscitative hysterotomy, orthopedic reductions, and pediatric emergencies.
  • Gain practice in procedures such as transvenous pacing, resuscitative hysterotomy, orthopedic reductions, and pediatric emergency interventions under expert guidance in order to refine technique, correct errors, and build procedural muscle memory.
  • Gain the confidence and reliability needed to perform critical interventions effectively in clinical practice.

Additional Information

Competencies this activity addresses: 
Interprofessional communication
Medical knowledge
Patient care and procedural skills
Teams and teamwork
Work in interdisciplinary teams
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
    The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 2.75 Attendance
Registration opens: 
09/19/2025
Claim credit by: 
11/03/2025
Event starts: 
10/02/2025 - 9:00am EDT
Event ends: 
10/02/2025 - 12:00pm EDT
TimeSessionLocation
9:00 am - 9:45 amAlumni Case ConferenceMedical Staff Auditorium and Zoom
10:00am - 12:00pmChoose Your Own AdventureUSCSOMG Sim Center and GMH CC2

Choose Your Own Adventure Selection Options

  • Advanced Ultrasound- Echo- Sim Center
  • ALTO-  Sim Center
  • Transvenous Pacing- Sim Center
  • Fiberoptic Intubation- Sim Center
  • Pediatric Resuscitation and HALO Procedures- Sim Center
  • Ortho Skills and C Arm Technique- GMH CC 2
  • Finances and Prisma Retirement Savings (Faculty Only with Dr. Bitner)- USCSOMG 312
  • Shift Admin 101 and Ratioed Hours (Faculty Only with Dr. Jackson and Dr. Hobbs)- USCSOMG 313

 

USC SOMG Simulation Center
Grove Rd.
Greenville, SC 29605
United States
USC School of Medicine Greenville building

“The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville has been reviewed by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) and awarded Accreditation with Commendation as a provider of continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. Accreditation in the ACCME System seeks to assure the medical community and the public that the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville delivers education that is relevant to clinicians’ needs, evidence-based, evaluated for its effectiveness, and independent of commercial influence.”

USC SOMG logo

Available Credit

  • 2.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
    The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 2.75 Attendance
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If you have any questions or comments regarding this process, feel free to reach out to the CME Team at [email protected].