{"id":322185,"date":"2026-11-06T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322185\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T05:14:08","slug":"pittsburghs-action-news-4-gets-inside-look-at-training-at-ahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/322185\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 gets inside look at training at AHN"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Carlos<\/a>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n

HBO’s “The Pitt” gives viewers an inside look at the intense world of emergency medicine, highlighting the training of medical students and residents at Allegheny Health Network.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s chaotic, but in a fun way,” said Suhita Chandra Sekharuni, a second-year resident.<\/p>\n

“Sometimes you need to be able to run in, do something, maybe save somebody’s life, run out and do the exact same thing in another room without ever really having time to process it,” said Dr. Brent Rau, medical director for AHN’s Department of Emergency Medicine.<\/p>\n

When not in the emergency department, students and residents continue their training at AHN’s STAR Center, where simulations replicate real-life scenarios.<\/p>\n

“So we need to have days like today where we can simulate the exact same situation that we saw in the emergency department, and then debrief afterwards and really walk through what worked, what didn’t work,” Rau said. <\/p>\n

Sekharuni said she appreciates the opportunity to learn away from the emergency department.<\/p>\n

“You can really have a lot of time to ask questions and make mistakes without the high-stakes nature of being an actual ED,” she said. <\/p>\n

Dr. Robert Sobehart, residency program director for emergency medicine at AHN, described the training as preparation for critical cases.<\/p>\n

“Kind of think of that as stress inoculation training, getting ready for the real scenario when folks come into the department as sick as they could possibly be,” he said. <\/p>\n

Sobehart also noted an increase in medical applications following a decline during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

“The last two years, they have started to rebound. Whether that’s ‘The Pitt,’ whether that’s people getting beyond COVID, I think it’s probably a combination of those things,” he said.<\/p>\n

Sekharuni believes the show is helping to raise awareness about the work of emergency medicine residents.<\/p>\n

“I think people recognize the work that I do,” she said. “I feel like before, they’d be like, ‘Oh, you’re an ER resident. What does that mean?’ But now it’s become such a cool thing to talk with patients about, so I think it’s a really fun experience.”<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the goal remains the same: saving lives.<\/p>\n

“We hope that we can simulate that training that they need to go out and be the doctors that we want them to be,” Sobehart said.<\/p>\n

Doctors and educators at AHN hope the community recognizes their efforts to train the next generation of physicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 HBO’s “The Pitt” gives viewers an inside look at the intense world of emergency medicine, highlighting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6091,2123,57394,73,75,74,40753],"class_list":["post-322185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-ahn","tag-allegheny-health-network","tag-emergency-medicine","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-the-pitt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}