Keep Your Cool: Exploring Emotion Regulation Strategies During Team-Based Medical Simulations

• In Event: Navigating Emotional Response and Self-Efficacy in a Simulated Training Environment

Abstract

Team-based medical simulations allow healthcare learners to practice skills within realistic environments. However, literature regarding emotion regulation in healthcare simulations is sparse, often limited in scope to regulation tendencies or to a limited range of regulation strategies. The present study examined medical residents' emotion regulation strategies and their perceived effectiveness in team-based medical simulations. Findings suggest that, at the team and individual level, situation modification and attention deployment strategies are more frequently employed by and may be more effective at the team level for medical residents during team-based medical simulations as compared to cognitive change or response modulation strategies. The team members that participated in the team regulation strategy were found to significantly affect the perceived effectiveness of the strategy.

Authors

• Keerat Kaur Grewal, McGill University

• Sayed Azher, McGill University

• Matthew Moreno, University of Central Florida

• Reinhard Pekrun, University of Essex

• Jeffrey Wiseman, McGill University

• Gerald Fried, McGill University

• Susanne P. Lajoie, McGill University

• Ryan Brydges, University of Toronto

• Allyson F. Hadwin, University of Victoria

• Ning-Zi Sun, McGill University

• Elene Khalil, McGill University

• Jason Matthew Harley, McGill University