Inside the Black Box of Deliberate Practice: How do Coaches Coach to Improve Trauma Triage.

Introduction: Deliberate practice, goal-oriented training with feedback from a coach, is a common tool for improving physicians' performance. However, little is known about how coaches foster performance improvement.

Methods: A content analysis of video-recorded training sessions was performed to analyze the coaches' behaviors during a pilot randomized trial of deliberate practice in trauma triage.

Using a theory-based, customized video game as an educational tool to improve physicians' trauma triage decisions: study protocol for a randomized cluster trial.

Background: Transfer of severely injured patients to trauma centers, either directly from the field or after evaluation at non-trauma centers, reduces preventable morbidity and mortality. Failure to transfer these patients appropriately (i.e.

Testing the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effect of a novel deliberate practice intervention to reduce diagnostic error in trauma triage: a study protocol for a randomized pilot trial.

Background: Non-compliance with clinical practice guidelines in trauma remains common, in part because physicians make diagnostic errors when triaging injured patients. Deliberate practice, purposeful participation in a training task under the oversight of a coach, effectively changes behavior in procedural domains of medicine but has rarely been used to improve diagnostic skill. We plan a pilot parallel randomized trial to test the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effect of a novel deliberate practice intervention to reduce physician diagnostic errors in trauma triage.