Background: The Central Texas Veterans Health Care System (CTVHCS) in Temple, a 189-bed teaching hospital, recently opened its Center for Innovation and Learning for simulation-based learning. CTVHCS built a rapid response simulation curriculum to improve preparedness for internal medicine residents, medical students, and physician assistant students that exploits newly developed medical education technology.
Observations: The Center for Innovation and Learning curriculum was created based on the most common rapid response calls received over the previous 3 years. Cardiac, respiratory, and neurological simulations were implemented. Learners approach each scenario as if they were on night service alone without specialist help. Learners must identify tachyarrhythmia, impending respiratory failure, and a patient with encephalopathy requiring transfer.
Conclusions: Sixteen learners were surveyed before the simulation and after addressing each educational objective was completed and showed improvement. Educating trainees on rapid response scenarios by using a simulation curriculum provides many benefits. Trainees reported improvement in addressing cardiac, respiratory, and neurological rapid response scenarios after experiencing the simulation.
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