PG126 Designing, implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of a new delivery model of the simulation training day for final year medical students, university of Nottingham

ABSTRACT

Background‘The Simulation Training Day’ is designed to provide the students with the opportunity to rehearse the key clinical skills practiced throughout their Critical Illness attachment, and also to consider many of the other factors that can influence the patient’s outcome. Previously, we conducted it as a face to face session. Participants observe, practice and then reflect upon the immediate management of acutely ill patients through facilitated debriefing.In response to the COVID -19 pandemic, we have amended our approach to the delivery of this training for 2020–21. The aim has been to respond to the constraints that have been imposed on scheduling of their modules, student numbers and availability of resources for teaching.Despite modifying the delivery model, we aim to achieve as many of the educational outcomes as possible.Project DescriptionWe offered the students two different hybrid approachesAn online learning package with one half day face to face simulation course for Nottingham University Hospitals based students.An online learning package and one half day remote simulation course for students from outside Nottingham University Hospitals and for those are shielding.The online learning package involves virtual simulation where students will be asked to watch a series of specially filmed scenarios that raise important discussion points. This will enable face to face and remote simulation sessions to be shortened;group sizes reduced and still allow the same number of themes to be covered as the traditional full day simulation course.A half day interactive live streaming simulation, where trainees participate in a simulation from home/base trust, will cover the same scenarios as face to face simulation.We will evaluate the effectiveness of our revised course by collecting feedback from both the learner’s and faculty’s perspectives. We will generate a set of questions in line with previous traditional ones in order to compare the achievement of learning outcomes for last year traditional format group, this year face to face with online package and this year remote sim with online package. We will also explore any challenges/achievements from the faculty and identify technical issues and improvements for future courses.Summary of ResultsThe course will run from October to March and the findings from these questionnaires from some of the groups will be presented on the conference day.Discussion and Conclusions;RecommendationsIn progress and will be presented in the poster.