• Sandrijn M van Schaik, Jennifer Plant, Shelley Diane, Lisa Tsang, and Patricia O'Sullivan.
• Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0106, USA. vanschaiks@peds.ucsf.edu
• Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2011 Sep 1;50(9):807-15.

IntroductionSimulation-based interprofessional team training is important to ensure high-quality, safe patient care, but several barriers exist, including diverging learning needs and schedules as well as limited available resources.MethodsThe authors developed an in situ, simulation-based interprofessional team training program around pediatric emergencies for physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, and pharmacists at their institution and performed an analysis of the program's impact on self-efficacy in resuscitation skills among pediatric residents and nurses.ResultsThe results showed that with a design based in best principles of team training and simulation education, interprofessional team training is feasible and sustainable. The program had a beneficial effect on self-efficacy in resuscitation skills among both residents and nurses at the authors' institution and received widespread acceptance.ConclusionsA collaborative approach to design and implementation of interprofessional team training can lead to a sustainable program that serves both patient safety and training requirements set forth by professional organizations.

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