Susan Coffey, M.D., MSMS, CHSE
Director of the Virtual Education and Simulation Training Center ChristianaCare
- Wilmington DE
Dr. Susan Coffey is the director of ChristianaCare’s Virtual Education and Simulation Training Center.
Biography
Areas of Expertise
Education
Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
MSMS
Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
M.D.
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Media Appearances
delaware Hospitals will treat the leading cause of maternal morbidity the same way
Delaware News Journal print
2018-12-24
Dr. Susan Coffey Zern, the director of simulation education at Christiana Care, said everyone who is a part of the health system's Women's and Children's service line has received the training.
The department is currently going through another wave of this training, and it's what will be offered to other hospitals in the new year. The training occurs over two days and includes classroom sessions and 16 different simulation scenarios.
Coffey Zern said the simulation center gives providers a safe space to make mistakes as well as help normalize these rare, emergency situations.
By doing these drills again and again, it helps the protocol become "muscle memory," she said.
"We're hoping to be the first state with really being able to change maternal morbidity and mortality," Coffey Zern said.
Selected Papers and Publications
Working with Experts from Non-clinical Fields
Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Improving Healthcare Systems2021
Simulation programs can benefit greatly from inter-disciplinary collaboration, especially with specialists outside of clinical fields. A working knowledge of relevant non-clinical fields can help simulation program directors by enriching the diversity of lessons learned, enhanceing the impact and maximizing the value derived from simulation.
Use of simulation as a needs assessment to develop a focused team leader training curriculum for resuscitation teams
Advances in Simulation2020
Background: Many inpatients experience cardiac arrest and mortality in this population is extremely high. Simulation is frequently used to train code teams with the goal of improving these outcomes. A key step in designing such a training curriculum is to perform a needs assessment. We report on the effectiveness of a simulation-based training program for residents designed using unannounced in-situ simulation cardiac arrest data as a needs assessment.
Training for Trauma Anesthesia: Role of Education and Simulation-Based Training
Current Anesthesiology Reports2020
Trauma care requires distinct skills of the anesthesia care giver that need to be provided in both a timely fashion and highly dynamic setting. This article will review different strategies to teach these complex skills with an emphasis on simulation-based training.
