Background: Physiological changes associated with ageing could negatively impact the crisis resource management skills of acute care physicians. This study was designed to determine whether physician age impacts crisis resource management skills, and crisis resource management skills learning and retention using full-body manikin simulation training in acute care physicians.
Methods: Acute care physicians at two Canadian universities participated in three 8-min simulated crisis (pulseless electrical activity) scenarios.
Background: Maintaining and enhancing competence in the breadth of emergency medicine (EM) is an ongoing challenge. In particular, resuscitative care in EM involves high-risk clinical encounters that demand strong procedural skills, effective team leadership, and up-to-date clinical knowledge. Simulation-based medical education is an effective modality for enhancing technical and nontechnical skills in crisis situations and has been effectively embedded in undergraduate and postgraduate medical curricula worldwide.
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April 2020
Introduction: The proportion of older acute care physicians (ACPs) has been steadily increasing. Ageing is associated with physiological changes and prospective research investigating how such age-related physiological changes affect clinical performance, including crisis resource management (CRM) skills, is lacking. There is a gap in the literature on whether physician's age influences baseline CRM performance and also learning from simulation.
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