Improved fourth-year medical student clinical decision-making performance as a resuscitation team leader after a simulation-based curriculum.

Objective: To determine the impact of simulation-based instruction on student performance in the role of emergency department resuscitation team leader.

Methods: A randomized, single-blinded, controlled study using an intention to treat analysis. Eighty-three fourth-year medical students enrolled in an emergency medicine clerkship were randomly allocated to two groups differing only by instructional format.

Improved medical student satisfaction and test performance with a simulation-based emergency medicine curriculum: a randomized controlled trial.

Study Objective: We determine the effect of a simulation-based curriculum on fourth-year medical student test performance and satisfaction during an emergency medicine clerkship.

Methods: This was a randomized controlled study using a crossover design for curriculum format and an anonymous end-of-rotation satisfaction survey. Students were randomized into 2 groups.