BACKGROUND In the training of healthcare professionals, one of the advantages of communication training with simulated patients (SPs) is the SP's ability to provide direct feedback to students after a simulated clinical encounter. The quality of SP feedback must be monitored, especially because it is well known that feedback can have a profound effect on student performance. Due to the current ...

DEMOGRAPHICS Case Title: Cardiac Arrest in an Obstetric Patient: A Simulated Emergency Patient Name: Jane Winters Case Description and Diagnosis: A healthy 32-year-old pregnant woman develops pulseless electrical activity (PEA) arrest at 33-weeks gestation. Simulation Scenario Developers: Amanda Burden, MD; Greg Staman, RN; and Erin Pukenas, MD Target Audience: Anesthesia and obstetrics (OB) an...

BACKGROUND It is not clear that teaching specific history taking, physical examination and patient teaching techniques to medical students results in durable behavioural changes. We used a quasi-experimental design that approximated a randomized double blinded trial to examine whether a Participatory Decision-Making (PDM) educational module taught in a clerkship improves performance on a Simula...