Mannequin-Based Immersive Simulation Improves Resident Understanding of a Clinical Decision Rule

Ilana Harwayne-Gidansky, Jennifer M. Bellis, Son H. McLaren, Kristen Critelli, Sunday Clark, Zhengming Chen, Linda M. Gerber and Kevin Ching

Simulation & Gaming, 2017, vol. 48, issue 5, 657-669

Abstract: Objective. Simulation-based medical education may aid to standardize clinical performance measures, though there is little evidence for using an immersive, mannequin-based simulation for knowledge acquisition . We predicted that residents who had participated in an immersive simulation exercise illustrating the use of a clinical decision rule plus routine instructional methods (experimental group) would understand and implement this tool better than interns who participated in an immersive simulation focused on traumatic brain injury with intracranial hypertension plus routine instructional methods (control group 1). We further predicted that interns in the experimental group would understand and implement this tool as well as senior residents with more clinical experience (control group 2). Methods. This was a single center, prospective, simulation-based , randomized controlled trial. Pediatric interns were randomly assigned to clinically integrated teaching , plus a single, immersive simulation and structured debrief aimed at teaching this tool in minor head trauma (intervention), or clinically integrated teaching plus a related simulation on intracranial hypertension. Senior residents were used as an historical control arm and did not participate in a simulated encounter. Results. 20 interns (ten per group) participated in the study. Senior residents (n=40) served as historical comparisons. Interns in the intervention group scored similar to senior residents on a structured clinical observation score (median 64% vs. 57%), and better than interns in the placebo group (median 64% vs. 43%). Conclusions. In this study, a single immersive simulation improved resident learning and application of a clinical prediction rule when compared to standard resident education .

Keywords: clinical decision-making; clinical performance; debriefing; emergency medicine; high-fidelity simulation; medical decision-making; medical education; PECARN; pediatric interns; pediatrics; resident education; simulation; structured clinical observation; structured debriefing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/1046878117719483

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