Procedural Skills Training in Emergency Medicine Physicians Within the Edmonton Zone: A Needs Assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The objectives were to describe the current procedural skill practices, attitudes toward procedural skill competency, and the role for educational skills training sessions among emergency medicine (EM) physicians within a geographic health zone.

Methods

This is a multicenter descriptive cross-sectional survey of all EM physicians working at 12 emergency departments (EDs) within the Edmonton Zone in 2019. Survey items addressed current procedural skill performance frequency; perceived importance and confidence; current methods to maintain competence; barriers and facilitating factors to participation in a curriculum; preferred teaching methods; and desired frequency of practice for each procedural skill.

Results

Survey response rate was 53.6%. Variability in

SUBMITTER: Schonnop R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8019211 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature