Real Time, Remote, and Recorded: Medical Student Experiences with Smart Glasses in Obstetrical Simulation.

Objectives: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic generated the need for a teaching tool for enhancing remote education and evaluation of medical trainees. Smart glasses are being explored as a hands-free teaching tool for teleconferencing with hands-on demonstrations in addition to livestreaming capability. We wanted to understand the efficacy of such virtual teaching techniques in teaching procedural and surgical skills.

Circ_0003356 suppresses gastric cancer growth through targeting the miR-668-3p/SOCS3 axis.

Background: Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have attracted extensive attention as therapeutic targets in gastric cancer (GC). Circ_0003356 is known to be downregulated in GC tissues, but its cellular function and mechanisms remain undefined.

Aim: To investigate the role of circ_0003356 in GC at the molecular and cellular level.

Implementing COVID-19 Simulation Training for Anesthesiology Residents.

Introduction: During the COVID-19 pandemic, anesthesiology residents faced increased risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 while performing aerosolizing procedures. We developed an airway simulation on the out-of-operating-room management of COVID-19 patients.

Methods: A 90-minute simulation focused on caring for a 45-year-old COVID-19 patient provided training in donning and doffing personal protective equipment, intubation, management of postinduction hypotension, management of ICU ventilators, treatment strategies for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), interpersonal communication, and resource management.

Prospective, Randomized Trial Comparing Simulator-based versus Traditional Teaching of Direct Ophthalmoscopy for Medical Students.

Objective: To compare results of simulator-based vs traditional training of medical students in direct ophthalmoscopy.

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Methods: First-year medical student volunteers completed 1 hour of didactic instruction regarding direct ophthalmoscopes, fundus anatomy, and signs of disease.

Screen-Based Simulation for Training and Automated Assessment of Teamwork Skills: Comparing 2 Modes With Different Interactivity.

Introduction: The need for teamwork training is well documented; however, teaching these skills is challenging given the logistics of assembling individual team members together to train in person. We designed 2 modes of screen-based simulation for training teamwork skills to assess whether interactivity with nonplayer characters was necessary for in-game performance gains or for player satisfaction with the experience.

Methods: Mixed, randomized, repeated measures study with licensed healthcare providers block-stratified and randomized to evaluation-participant observes and evaluates the team player in 3 scenarios-and game play-participant is immersed as the leader in the same 3 scenarios.

Effect of Performance Deficiencies on Graduation and Board Certification Rates: A 10-yr Multicenter Study of Anesthesiology Residents.

Background: This multicenter, retrospective study was conducted to determine how resident performance deficiencies affect graduation and board certification.

Methods: Primary documents pertaining to resident performance were examined over a 10-yr period at four academic anesthesiology residencies. Residents entering training between 2000 and 2009 were included, with follow-up through February 2016.

Creating a Simulated Pharmacy.

Introduction: The acquisition and use of pharmaceuticals in simulation is a common challenge for many institutions and simulation centers. There are 2 major avenues of obtaining medications, namely, via expired drugs donated by manufacturers or via purchasing simulated medication vials filled with inactive ingredients. Neither option is ideal to keep pace with busy simulation centers or to meet the specialized requirements of many educational programs.

Practice improvements based on participation in simulation for the maintenance of certification in anesthesiology program.

Background: This study describes anesthesiologists' practice improvements undertaken during the first 3 yr of simulation activities for the Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Program.

Methods: A stratified sampling of 3 yr (2010-2012) of participants' practice improvement plans was coded, categorized, and analyzed.

Results: Using the sampling scheme, 634 of 1,275 participants in Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Program simulation courses were evaluated from the following practice settings: 41% (262) academic, 54% (339) community, and 5% (33) military/other.

Advance care planning norms may contribute to hospital variation in end-of-life ICU use: a simulation study.

Background: There is wide variation in end-of-life (EOL) intensive care unit (ICU) use among academic medical centers (AMCs). Our objective was to develop hypotheses regarding medical decision-making factors underlying this variation.

Methods: This was a high-fidelity simulation experiment involving a critically and terminally ill elder, followed by a survey and debriefing cognitive interview and evaluated using triangulated quantitative-qualitative comparative analysis.

Simulation for quality assurance in training, credentialing and maintenance of certification.

Simulation has become ubiquitous in medical education over the last decade. However, while many health-care professions and disciplines have embraced the use of simulation for training, its use for high-stakes testing and credentialing is less well established. This chapter explores the incorporation of simulation into training requirements and board certification, and its role for quality assurance of educational programmes and professional competence.

Sevoflurane-induced delayed neuroprotection involves mitoK(ATP) channel opening and PKC ε activation.

There is an increasing body of evidence that a brief exposure to anesthesia induces ischemic tolerance in rat brain (anesthetic preconditioning). However, it is unknown whether preconditioning with sevoflurane, a commonly used volatile anesthetic in current clinical practice, produces a delayed window of neuroprotection against ischemia and what the mechanisms are for this protection. To address these issues, adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to middle cerebral arterial occlusion (MCAO) for 2 h.

Anesthesiology residents' performance of pediatric resuscitation during a simulated hyperkalemic cardiac arrest.

Background: Anesthesiologists are responsible for the management of perioperative cardiopulmonary arrest in children. This study used simulation to assess the pediatric resuscitation skills of experienced anesthesia residents.

Methods: Nineteen anesthesia residents were evaluated using a pediatric pulseless electrical activity scenario.

2007 simulation education summit.

The Society for Simulation in Healthcare convened the second Simulation Education Summit meeting in October 2007 in Chicago, Illinois. The purpose of the Summit was to bring together leaders of public, private, and government organizations, associations, and agencies involved in healthcare education for a focused discussion of standards for simulation-based applications. Sixty-eight participants representing 36 organizations discussed in structured small and large groups the criteria needed for various training and assessment applications using simulation.

Simulation-based training is superior to problem-based learning for the acquisition of critical assessment and management skills.

Objective: To determine whether full-scale simulation (SIM) is superior to interactive problem-based learning (PBL) for teaching medical students acute care assessment and management skills.

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Simulation center at a U.