Learning to Manage Deteriorating Patients: Examining the Utility and Processes of an Emergency Response Simulation

• In Event: 56.082 - Poster Session 12
  In Poster Session: 56.082-8 - Poster Session: Education and Assessment in the Professions

Abstract

Medical trainees feel underprepared to stabilize patients experiencing deteriorating vital signs, yet few teaching interventions focus on responding to a deteriorating patient before cardiac arrest occurs. The present study examines the Deteriorating Patient Activity, a simulation training opportunity designed to help medical students learn to manage patients who are clinically deteriorating. Participants completed questionnaires (emotions, attitudes/beliefs toward training) and procedural knowledge tests. Audio/video recordings of simulations were also collected. Results demonstrated significant decreases in negative emotions, significant increases in knowledge, and positive attitudes toward training. Analyses of simulation processes provided insight into use of the medical algorithm and self-regulated learning. Implications will be discussed in terms of instructional design and advancing education research in the professions using a process-centered approach.

Authors

• Melissa Duffy, University of Ottawa

• Tara Tressel, McGill University

• Susanne P. Lajoie, McGill University

• Maren Gube, McGill University

• Jie Zhao, McGill University

• Laura Pipe, McGill University

• Maxime Labelle, McGill University

• Jeffrey Wiseman, McGill University