The Modified, Multi-patient Observed Simulated Handoff Experience (M-OSHE): Assessment and Feedback for Entering Residents on Handoff Performance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the identification of transfer of patient responsibility as a Core Entrustable Professional Activity for Entering Residency, rigorous methods to evaluate incoming residents' ability to give a verbal handoff of multiple patients are lacking.

Aim

Our purpose was to implement a multi-patient, simulation-based curriculum to assess verbal handoff performance.

Setting

Graduate Medical Education (GME) orientation at an urban, academic medical center.

Participants

Eighty-four incoming residents from four residency programs participated in the study.

Program description

The curriculum featured an online training module and a multi-patient observed simulated handoff experience (M-OSHE). Participants verbally "handed off" three mock patients of v

SUBMITTER: Gaffney S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4803693 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature