Required eLearning for Residents & Fellows

Duration: 15 Minutes

Required BY: ACGME 

Optional/Exempt: Exemption can be requested

Required FOR: All Incoming

Residents and fellows play a critical role in the education of medical students and other residents. This module introduces residents and fellows to a practical evidenced-based tool for teaching in the fast paced clinical setting. Part two of the module provides relevant information about the use of feedback in the learning process, including what facilitates and what inhibits learning, and how to communicate feedback effectively and in a timely manner.

Authors: Mark Wicks, PhD and Thomas J. Halverson, PhD

Duration: 10 Minutes

Required BY: Federal 

Optional/Exempt: No

Required FOR: All who started July 2015

This training module covers precautions for airborne transmission of infection in healthcare settings. Learners get an overview of airborne-transmitted diseases and risk factors for healthcare workers, reinforced by case studies of significant airborne outbreaks. Must-have airborne precautions are presented including: respiratory hygiene and etiquette; administrative and environmental airborne infection controls; UWMC requirements for personal protective equipment; and detailed instructions for the proper selection, fitting and use of respirators and masks.

Authors: Estella Whimbey, MD and Mary Dessel, RN, BSN

Duration: 10 Minutes

Required BY: UW Medicine 

Optional/Exempt: Optional

Required FOR: Only Certain Programs

This elearning module includes best practices around prevention of VTE. After completing this module learners will be able to recognize risk factors for VTE and identify indications and contraindications for VTE prophylaxis. They will also recognize appropriate drugs for pharmacologic prophylaxis, as well as the need to adjust VTE prophylaxis for special populations.

Authors: Ann Wittkowsky, PharmD. and Richard Goss, MD, MPH

Duration: 5 Minutes

Required BY: UW Medicine 

Optional/Exempt: No

Required FOR: All who started July 2015

Reporting an error or a near-miss does not have to be difficult. Nor does it have to be a complicated process. This brief module will show you that it isn’t. That reporting can have a friendly web interface, can be anonymous and can make a difference. And it does. In this module you will also learn what happens with those reports at UW Medicine, how they are really linked to patient safety and how things truly change due to those reports.

Authors: Jessica Yanny, Pat Tennent, and Lisa Goben. Contributors: Andrea Ball and Simona Lazar

Duration: 10 Minutes

Required BY: UW Medicine 

Optional/Exempt: Optional

Required FOR: Only Certain Programs

UW Medicine’s interpreters and translators support effective communication between patients and their care teams; they help patients and their families navigate the health care system; and, they participate in designing culturally appropriate care processes. This module will illustrate these important services and will explain why and when utilizing this resource is so critical to patient safety.

Authors: Linda Golley and Martine Pierre-Louis

Duration: 10 Minutes

Required BY: UW Medicine 

Optional/Exempt: Optional

Required FOR: Only Certain Programs

Required BY: ACGME

Optional/Exempt: Exemption can be requested

Required FOR: All Incoming

The Fatigue module provides an overview of the impact of sleepiness and fatigue on residents’ ability to carry out their professional responsibilities. It discusses the physiology of normal sleep and disrupted sleep and provides practical advice about how to balance the demands of long hours, call schedules, and healthy self-care.

Authors: Donna Henderson, BSN, MHA; Gene Peterson, MD, PhD; Sara Kim, PhD; and Theodore Bushnell, MD

Required BY: Medical Centers

Optional/Exempt: No

Required FOR: All Incoming

Fundamental infection control measures such as hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene, standard and transmission-based precautions, aseptic technique, and immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases play a significant role in preventing the transmission of infectious agents within the healthcare setting.

Authors: Timothy Dellit, MD; Anneliese Schleyer, MD; and Estella Whimbey, MD

Required BY: Medical Centers

Optional/Exempt: No

Required FOR: All Incoming

Patient Safety 1—NPSG (National Patient Safety Goals:) Patient Safety 2—CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) Initiatives

Most hospitals in the U.S. are voluntarily surveyed by the Joint Commission. As part of the certification process, hospitals are evaluated for their compliance with a set of national Patient Safety Goals. These are a set of consensus-based organizational behaviors that have been demonstrated to improve safety. This module is an introduction to the National Patient Safety Goals as outlined by the Joint Commission, and endorsed by many payors. This course also outlines the core measures that a majority of hospitals report to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Authors: Donna Henderson, BSN, MHA; Gene Peterson, MD, PhD; and John Bramhall, MD

Required BY: Medical Centers

Optional/Exempt: No

Required FOR: All Incoming

Patient Safety 1—NPSG (National Patient Safety Goals:) Patient Safety 2—CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services) Initiatives

Most hospitals in the U.S. are voluntarily surveyed by the Joint Commission. As part of the certification process, hospitals are evaluated for their compliance with a set of national Patient Safety Goals. These are a set of consensus-based organizational behaviors that have been demonstrated to improve safety. This module is an introduction to the National Patient Safety Goals as outlined by the Joint Commission, and endorsed by many payors. This course also outlines the core measures that a majority of hospitals report to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Authors: Donna Henderson, BSN, MHA; Gene Peterson, MD, PhD; and John Bramhall, MD

Required BY: Medical Centers

Optional/Exempt: No

Required FOR: All Incoming

When to admit as inpatient and when not to? Physicians must determine the correct patient status based on medical necessity and properly document it in the medical record. UW Medicine is increasingly in the position to defend its documentation and has had to repay millions of dollars of inpatient claims over the past few years because of medical necessity-related concerns. All UW Medicine physicians who admit patients into the hospital will find this eLearning helpful in bolstering our collective effort to improve documentation and reduce the volume of repayment requests.

Authors: UW Medicine Compliance team

Required BY: Medical Centers

Optional/Exempt: No

Required FOR: All Continuing

Required BY: UWP

Optional/Exempt: No

Required FOR: All Incoming & All Continuing

Required BY: UWP

Optional/Exempt: No

Required FOR: Continuing (E/M Specialties)

Required BY: UWP

Optional/Exempt: No

Required FOR: All Incoming & All Continuing

Required BY: UWP

Optional/Exempt: No

Required FOR: All Incoming

Required BY: Medical Centers

Optional/Exempt: No

Required FOR: All Incoming & All Continuing

This module presents a broad range of infection control concepts and practical steps to ensure the safety of patients and healthcare professionals in all clinical settings. This module must be completed on an annual basis to maintain compliance with OSHA and WISHA regulations on bloodborne pathogen training requirements.

Authors: Timothy Dellit, MD; Anneliese Schleyer, MD; and Estella Whimbey, MD

Required BY: WA State

Optional/Exempt: No

Required FOR: All Incoming

The healthcare worker plays a critical role in recognizing and reporting harm to others, regardless of whether that person is a patient, visitor or colleague. This eLearning module informs and educates on existing policies and procedures, and provides with the knowledge needed to assist those in danger. Through a legal review covering reporting statutes and consequences of not reporting, case studies and an overview of UW Medicine policies, the learner will be better equipped to handle those difficult situations tied to obvious or potential cases of abuse.

Authors: Thomas W. Pendergrass, MD; Erica Sumioka, JD

Required BY: Federal

Optional/Exempt: No

Required FOR: All Incoming

Required BY: Incoming (specific programs)

Optional/Exempt: No

Required FOR: All Incoming

CVC training is designed to rapidly orient physicians to a standard method for central venous catheter (CVC) placement into the superior vena cava. CVC placement is a skill that all physicians who care for acutely ill patients will find useful. While CVC has a number of indications, it also presents significant risks for the patient during catheter insertion and while the catheter is in use. To help improve outcomes of CVC placement, UW Medicine and ISIS (Institute for Surgical and Interventional Simulation) have devised a short program with two parts:

1. Two online courses (Central Venous Catheter Overview and CVC for Practitioners) to orient learners to the best practices and key procedural steps in CVC placement.
2. A hands-on training program on a simulator that applies the procedure learned in the online training module, for those residents who will be responsible for CVC placement and management. The ISIS (Institute for Simulation and Interprofessional Studies) schedules and manages this training in collaboration with the GME Programs.

Authors: Mika Sinanan, MD, PhD.; Jacob Rosen, PhD.; Andrew Wright, MD; and Vanessa Makarewicz, RN, MN

Required BY: Medical Centers

Optional/Exempt: No

Required FOR: Continuing (specific programs)

Fundamental infection control measures such as hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene, standard and transmission-based precautions, aseptic technique, and immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases play a significant role in preventing the transmission of infectious agents within the healthcare setting.

Authors: Timothy Dellit, MD; Anneliese Schleyer, MD; and Estella Whimbey, MD

Required BY: Medical Centers

Optional/Exempt: No

Required FOR: Incoming (specific fellowships)

All non-anesthesia medical staff and trainees who prescribe moderate sedation for non-intubated patients must complete a defined training program to obtain special privileges in moderate sedation. It is at the discretion of program directors to determine whether or not their trainees will perform moderate sedation and therefore be required to complete the training.

1. This curriculum has been designed to include 3 (three) hours of online training and 1 (one) hour of Airway Management training in the Operating Room or
2. 1 (one) hour of simulated airway management training at ISIS (if completed during Program’s Orientation in June)
3. The Moderation Sedation special privileges can be granted only to Fellows and Sr. Residents – this is not a GME orientation activity for incoming residents.
4. Upon completion of all training steps, the Fellows and Sr. Residents will be granted Moderate Sedation special privileges for their practice at UW Medicine. For more details, please email lgateway@uw.edu.