Simulation-based education with mastery learning improves residents' lumbar puncture skills.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effect of simulation-based mastery learning (SBML) on internal medicine residents' lumbar puncture (LP) skills, assess neurology residents' acquired LP skills from traditional clinical education, and compare the results of SBML to traditional clinical education.

Methods

This study was a pretest-posttest design with a comparison group. Fifty-eight postgraduate year (PGY) 1 internal medicine residents received an SBML intervention in LP. Residents completed a baseline skill assessment (pretest) using a 21-item LP checklist. After a 3-hour session featuring deliberate practice and feedback, residents completed a posttest and were expected to meet or exceed a minimum passing score (MPS) set by an expert panel. Simulator-trained residents' pretest and po

SUBMITTER: Barsuk JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3390539 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature