TY - GEN
T1 - Combining high-fidelity human patient simulators with a standardized family member
T2 - Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14 - Accelerating Change in Healthcare: Next Medical Toolkit, MMVR 2006
AU - Bowyer, Mark W.
AU - Rawn, Lisa
AU - Hanson, Janice
AU - Pimentel, Elisabeth A.
AU - Flanagan, Amy
AU - Ritter, E. Matthew
AU - Rizzo, Anne
AU - Lopreiato, Joseph O.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Our novel approach to teaching Breaking Bad News (BBN) involves having students actively participate in an unsuccessful resuscitation (mannequin) followed immediately by BBN to a standardized patient wife (SPW) portrayed by an actress. Thirty-nine 3rd year medical students completed a questionnaire and then were divided as follows: Group 1 (n=21) received little to no training prior to speaking with the SPW. Group 2 (n =18) received a lecture and practiced for 1 hour in small groups prior to the resuscitation and BBN. Both groups self assessed ability to BBN (p<.0002 & p<.00001), and ability to have a plan (p<.0004 & p <.0003) improved significantly over base line with greater improvement in group 2. Group 2 (pre-trained) students were rated superior by SPW's in several key areas. This novel approach to teaching BBN to 3rd year medical students was well received by the students and resulted in marked improvement of self assessed skills over baseline.
AB - Our novel approach to teaching Breaking Bad News (BBN) involves having students actively participate in an unsuccessful resuscitation (mannequin) followed immediately by BBN to a standardized patient wife (SPW) portrayed by an actress. Thirty-nine 3rd year medical students completed a questionnaire and then were divided as follows: Group 1 (n=21) received little to no training prior to speaking with the SPW. Group 2 (n =18) received a lecture and practiced for 1 hour in small groups prior to the resuscitation and BBN. Both groups self assessed ability to BBN (p<.0002 & p<.00001), and ability to have a plan (p<.0004 & p <.0003) improved significantly over base line with greater improvement in group 2. Group 2 (pre-trained) students were rated superior by SPW's in several key areas. This novel approach to teaching BBN to 3rd year medical students was well received by the students and resulted in marked improvement of self assessed skills over baseline.
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M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 2006106784
AN - SCOPUS:33645730626
SN - 1586035835
SN - 9781586035839
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 67
EP - 72
BT - Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14 - Accelerating Change in Healthcare
PB - IOS Press
Y2 - 24 January 2006 through 27 January 2006
ER -