Benchmark Performance of Emergency Medicine Residents in Pediatric Resuscitation: Are We Optimizing Pediatric Education for Emergency Medicine Trainees?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The majority of children in the United States seek emergency care at community-based general emergency departments (GEDs); however, the quality of GED pediatric emergency care varies widely. This may be explained by a number of factors, including residency training environments and postgraduate knowledge decay. Emergency medicine (EM) residents train in academic pediatric EDs, but didactic and clinical experience vary widely between programs, and little is known about the pediatric skills of these EM residents. This study aimed to assess the performance of senior EM residents in treating simulated pediatric patients at the end of their training.

Methods

This was a prospective, cross-sectional, simulation-based cohort study assessing the simulated performance of se

SUBMITTER: Schoppel KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8052997 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature