How to teach emergency procedural skills in an outdoor environment using low-fidelity simulation.

Abstract:

:Teaching emergency procedural skills in a wilderness setting can be logistically challenging. To teach these skills as part of a wilderness medicine elective for medical students, we designed an outdoor simulation session with low-fidelity models. The session involved 6 stations in which procedural skills were taught using homemade low-fidelity simulators. At each station, the students encountered a "victim," who required an emergency procedure that was performed using the low-fidelity model. The models are easy and inexpensive to construct, and their design and implementation in the session is described here. Using low-fidelity simulation models in an outdoor setting is an effective teaching tool for emergency wilderness medicine procedures and can easily be reproduced in future wilderness medicine courses.

journal_name

Wilderness Environ Med

authors

Saxon KD,Kapadia AP,Juneja NS,Bassin BS

doi

10.1016/j.wem.2013.11.001

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2014-03-01 00:00:00

pages

50-5

issue

1

eissn

1080-6032

issn

1545-1534

pii

S1080-6032(13)00344-X

journal_volume

25

pub_type

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