Original articleDevelopment and Evaluation of High-Fidelity Simulation Case Scenarios for Pediatric Resident Education
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Study Design
This study had a single-group, posttest-only quasi-experimental design.
Setting/Study Participants
We enrolled first and second year pediatric residents from Children’s Memorial Hospital’s (Chicago, Ill) pediatric residency program. During the development phase (July 2003 to June 2004), 51 residents were enrolled. In the evaluation phase (July 2004 to June 2005), 54 residents were enrolled, which represented 100% of the residents. First-year residents starting in 2003 participated in both years of the study. Participation
Results
All residents who were approached agreed to participate. Technical problems caused one session to be rescheduled. Seventy-two percent of subjects were female (78% and 67% of first- and second-year residents, respectively). Fifty-six percent reported previous simulation exposure in medical school (41% and 70% of first- and second-year residents, respectively).
Reliability data are listed in the Table. The mean adjusted κ coefficients for each case range from 0.75 to 0.87, consistent with
Discussion
In this study, we demonstrated that assessing residents with high-fidelity simulation cases can be accomplished with high reliability. Our case content was developed and reviewed by content experts in pediatric emergency medicine and medical education. The residents’ response processes produced by the cases using the simulator in the controlled environment closely approximated the behaviors needed to provide acute pediatric care in emergent situations. For 3 of the 4 cases, we demonstrated that
Acknowledgments
We are grateful for the provision of simulation laboratory time and personnel from the Patient Safety Simulation Center and the Department of Anesthesiology (M. Christine Stock, MD, Chair), Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. We also thank Leonard D. Wade for his help as simulation laboratory technician.
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Ms Siddall has served as a paid educator for METI, a simulator manufacturer.