Training to Transition: Using Simulation-Based Training to Improve Resident Physician Confidence in Hospital Discharges.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Hospital discharge is a highly critical and complex process that is prone to medical errors, poor communication, and ineffective synchronization of transitional teams. Improving safety during postacute care transitions has become a national focus. Simulation-based training is an underutilized method of instruction for medical resident transitions of care education.

Methods

As an integral part of a transitions curriculum, 36 PGY 1 residents from internal medicine and transitional year residency programs underwent a discharge simulation utilizing a trained simulated participant (SP) and a lay caregiver. The objective of the training was to implement a simulation-based education intervention to improve transition practices and discharge communication in graduate me

SUBMITTER: Sizemore J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10502193 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature