Teaching and learning in medicine
-
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Simulation-based training of internal medicine residents in advanced cardiac life support protocols: a randomized trial.
Internal medicine residents must be competent in Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) for board certification. ⋯ Performance improved significantly after simulator training. No improvement was detected as a function of clinical experience alone. The educational program was rated highly.
-
Provision of adequate opportunities for faculty to receive training in teaching skills requires persons with faculty development expertise to provide this training. ⋯ The TSP is a successful local model for increasing the resources available for teaching improvement.
-
Airway management skills are a vital part of emergency medicine training. Mastery of these skills requires didactic, model, and real-patient experiences. Practice with the use of relevant models greatly enhances these skills. ⋯ Combined results across all procedures showed that 94.8% believed the deer head models to be excellent, very good, or good models for demonstrating the techniques (range of favorable responses across all techniques was 87.5% to 98.8%). Deer heads serve as good to excellent aids for practicing advanced airway management skills. They are readily available and free of cost. This model should be considered in airway skills training.