Peer coaching increases emergency medicine faculty ability to perform and teach awake fiberoptic intubation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study sought to evaluate the impact of peer coaching as a continuing medical education (CME) modality to improve faculty performance and teaching of a low-frequency, high-complexity procedure, awake fiberoptic intubation (AFOI).

Methods

Academic emergency medicine faculty at a single tertiary care, Level I trauma center participated in a prospective pre-/postinterventional assessment of a peer coaching educational intervention. Participants completed a preintervention online survey to identify comfort and previous experience with performing and teaching AFOI. The participants reviewed presession materials and then completed a 25-min didactic session with a peer coach. Participants were then broken into dyads where they initially each practiced the procedure a

SUBMITTER: McCloskey CG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8637870 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature