Mastery learning of advanced cardiac life support skills by internal medicine residents using simulation technology and deliberate practice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Internal medicine residents must be competent in advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) for board certification.

Objective

To use a medical simulator to assess postgraduate year 2 (PGY-2) residents' baseline proficiency in ACLS scenarios and evaluate the impact of an educational intervention grounded in deliberate practice on skill development to mastery standards.

Design

Pretest-posttest design without control group. After baseline evaluation, residents received 4, 2-hour ACLS education sessions using a medical simulator. Residents were then retested. Residents who did not achieve a research-derived minimum passing score (MPS) on each ACLS problem had more deliberate practice and were retested until the MPS was reached.

Participants

Forty-one PGY-2 in

SUBMITTER: Wayne DB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1828088 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature