Creating Online Training for Procedures in Global Health with PEARLS (Procedural Education for Adaptation to Resource-Limited Settings)

Rachel S. Bensman Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio;

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Tina M. Slusher University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota;
Hennepin County Medical Center. Minneapolis, Minnesota;

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Sabrina M. Butteris University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin

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Michael B. Pitt University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota;

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on behalf of the SUGAR PEARLS Investigators Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio;
University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota;
Hennepin County Medical Center. Minneapolis, Minnesota;
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin

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The authors describe a multiinstitutional collaborative project to address a gap in global health training by creating a free online platform to share a curriculum for performing procedures in resource-limited settings. This curriculum called PEARLS (Procedural Education for Adaptation to Resource-Limited Settings) consists of peer-reviewed instructional and demonstration videos describing modifications for performing common pediatric procedures in resource-limited settings. Adaptations range from the creation of a low-cost spacer for inhaled medications to a suction chamber for continued evacuation of a chest tube. By describing the collaborative process, we provide a model for educators in other fields to collate and disseminate procedural modifications adapted for their own specialty and location, ideally expanding this crowd-sourced curriculum to reach a wide audience of trainees and providers in global health.

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Address correspondence to Rachel S. Bensman, Division of Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, ML 2008, Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039. E-mail: RBensmanMD@gmail.com

Authors’ addresses: Rachel S. Bensman, Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, E-mail: RBensmanMD@gmail.com. Tina M. Slusher, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis, MN, and Department of Pediatrics, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, E-mail: tslusher@umn.edu. Sabrina M. Butteris, Department of Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, E-mail: sbutteris@peduatrics.wisc.edu. Michael B. Pitt, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis, MN, E-mail: mbpitt@umn.edu.

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