Mastery learning improves simulated central venous catheter insertion by emergency medicine teaching faculty.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Routine competency assessments of procedure skills, such as central venous catheter (CVC) insertion, do not occur beyond residency training. Evidence suggests variable, suboptimal attending physician procedure skills. Our study aimed to assess CVC insertion skill by academic emergency physicians, determine whether a simulation-based mastery learning (SBML) intervention improves performance and investigate for variables that predict competence.

Methods

This is a pretest-posttest study that evaluated simulated CVC insertion by emergency medicine (EM) faculty physicians. We assessed 44 volunteer participants at a large academic medical center over a 1-month period using a published 29-item checklist. Our primary outcome was the difference in assessment score before a

SUBMITTER: Pokrajac N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8541755 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature