Rethinking Invasive Procedural Training

Transforming invasive bedside procedural instruction.

Context and setting Because there is a lack of standardised methodology to teach invasive bedside procedures, the incidence of associated complications remains unacceptably high and variations in teaching may be a contributing factor. Successful interventions are needed to change these poor outcomes and improve patient safety. Therefore, the University of Miami-Jackson Memorial Hospital Center ...

Guest Editorial: Rethinking research training.

Procedural training in neonatal care.

Practical elective and emergency skills form an essential part of neonatal care. Paediatric trainees should be competent in certain procedures such as intubation and umbilical line placement. These are essential requirements for general paediatric training according to the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. We sought to determine the current status of postgraduate neonatal procedural skill...

Lessons from Lithuania: rethinking public health training.

Lithuania faces stark problems that are familiar to most countries in the former Soviet Union: high morbidity and mortality rates, pollution, an unstable economy, and rapid changes in the financing and organisation of health care. In this environment Moore and Dixon visited Kaunas Medical Academy to help identify how training in public health medicine could contribute towards improving the heal...

Drill Evaluation for Training Procedural Skills

The acquisition of procedural skills requires learning by doing. Ideally, a student would receive real-time assessment and feedback as he attempts practice problems designed to exercise the targeted skills. This paper describes an automated assessment and feedback capability that has been applied to training for a complex software system in widespread use throughout the U.S. Army. The automated...