Improving pediatric procedural skills and EPA assessments through an acute care procedural skills curriculum.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Acute procedural skill competence is expected by the end of pediatric residency training; however, the extent to which residents are actually competent is not clear. Therefore, a cross-sectional observational study was performed to examine the competency of pediatric residents in acute care procedures in emergency medicine.

Materials and methods

Pediatric residents underwent didactic/hands-on "Acute Procedure Day" where they performed procedures with direct supervision and received entrustable professional activity (EPA) assessments (scores from 1-5) for each attempt. Procedures included: bag-valve mask (BVM) ventilation, intubation, intraosseous (IO) line insertion, chest tube insertion, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with defibrillation. Demographic i

SUBMITTER: Mirza M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11364283 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature