A Paging Training Program for a Fourth-Year Internship Readiness Course.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

New medical interns face a steep learning curve as they must manage complex medical scenarios, many of which they have only seen before in a classroom setting. To ameliorate these challenges, medical schools are increasingly including courses designed to address the transition from student to doctor. One of the biggest challenges for new interns is learning to triage and manage nursing pages, so we designed a mock paging program incorporated within our fourth-year transitions course.

Methods

We developed a database of clinical scenarios to occur via telephone between a nurse and a medicine intern. Throughout the 2-week course, these cases were administered to 40 fourth-year medical students by Master's level nursing students and nurse evaluators. The nurses used

SUBMITTER: Cetrone E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7666833 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature