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Ability Of Critical Care Medics To Confirm Endotracheal Tube Placement By Ultrasound, Michael Joyce

Health Sciences Education Symposium

Point of care ultrasound is rapidly becoming the standard of care for many different clinical applications. The ACLS guidelines were recently updated to include ultrasound confirmation of endotracheal tube placement. While physicians sometimes utilize this in hospital, it is not commonly used in a pre-hospital setting. We proposed teaching this skill using a simulation approach including hands on teaching combined with simulation of pathology.

Family Centered Rounds Simulation And Medical Students' Perceptions, Clifton Lee

Health Sciences Education Symposium

Background: Studies show that family centered rounds (FCR) improve family satisfaction by involving the families in their children’s care. Medical students consistently find FCR beneficial to families but have differing attitudes regarding benefits to the medical team. Some concerns raised by the students include longer rounds, decreased bedside teaching, and lack of opportunities to improve FCR skills. We developed a FCR simulation to aid medical students in FCR presentation.

Methods: On the first day of the clerkship, medical students presented a patient admission to two evaluators playing a parent and an attending physician. The patient admission note was emailed to …

Diabetes Immersion In A Pre-Clinical Endocrine Course, Diane M. Biskobing

Health Sciences Education Symposium

We describe a 2-day experience in the pre-clinical Endocrine course during which the students experience the complexities of living with diabetes mellitus. During this time they are asked to follow a carbohydrate controlled diet, monitor blood glucose and injection insulin (saline). They then wrote a reflection about the experience.

Changes In Pt And Ot Students’ Self-Efficacy Using An Interprofessional Case Based Experience, Dixie H. Bowman

Health Sciences Education Symposium

This poster describes an interprofessional simulation activity for physical therapy and occupational therapy students and a research study exploring the impact of the learning experience.

The Technicom Challenge: Low Fidelity Simulation With High Yield Potential, Susan Haynes

Health Sciences Education Symposium

Participants work in teams of two. One member of the team serves as the “communicator”, the other serves as the “surgeon”. The “communicator” is given a picture of the design and instructs the surgeon how to use the materials inside the box trainer to replicate the design. The “communicator” cannot look inside the box trainer nor share with the “surgeon” the picture of the design.

Several designs may be incorporated into the exercise. Pairs are given a maximum time of five minutes to complete each design. A debriefing is conducted to discuss the challenges in completing the simulation.

The Dynamics Of Power And Psychological Safety On Team Cohesion During Interprofessional Simulation-Based Education, Nital Appelbaum

Health Sciences Education Symposium

Healthcare team functioning requires coordination and collaboration between multiple practitioners towards a common goal of delivering safe and quality patient care (Lemieux-Charles & McGuire, 2006). Communication patterns, leadership, mutual support, and situation monitoring are all processes of effective teams (Weaver et al, 2010). However, despite the growing focus on developing interprofessional teams, minimal focus is given to the contextual and cultural forces influencing healthcare team functioning. Negative relationships amongst providers can affect teams in clinical settings, which in turn can undermine patient safety (Carpenter, 1995). Sources of poor team cohesion can be rooted in unequal distributions of power and the …

The First Five Minutes: Enhancing Simulation Education For First-Year Pediatric Residents, Megan E. Coe

Health Sciences Education Symposium

We are looking at the feasibility of redesigning the existing simulation education for first-year residents within the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU’s pediatric residency program to increase learning opportunities and to enhance exposure to pediatric medical emergencies. Novel simulation scenarios were designed to provide an introduction to managing the first five minutes of commonly encountered emergencies on the inpatient wards. These shortened simulations allow for educational objectives to be tailored to the expected knowledge and responsibilities of first-year residents.