Learning Crisis Resource Management: Practicing Versus Observational Role in Simulation Training

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Focus of Study is Teaching Crisis Resource Management

Treatments: Behavioral: observational role; Behavioral: active role

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01653704

20120008-01H

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness in learning crisis resource management (CRM) principles when being an active participant in simulation-based education versus being an observer participant. The investigators hypothesize that active participants will improve their CRM skills more than observer participants.

Full description

This will be a prospective randomized controlled study. Participants will be randomized to one of two groups with stratification according to their level of training: the active group and the observer group. Each participant of the active group will be paired with one of the participants from the observer group. The active participant will manage individually a simulated crisis scenario (pretest) while the paired observer participant will observe the scenario from outside the simulation room using a video transmission system. Immediately after, both participants will be debriefed by a trained instructor focused on CRM principles. The same active and observer participants will then individually manage another simulated crisis scenario (post-test). Two independent raters, blinded to the study design and to the randomization groups, will review the videos of all scenarios in a random order and rate each participant on their CRM performance using a global rating scale (GRS).

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• emergency medicine residents from the University of Ottawa

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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42 participants in 2 patient groups

active management of crises scenario

Experimental group

Description:

participants assigned to actively manage a crisis scenario

Treatment:

Behavioral: active role

Observer role in crisis scenario

Active Comparator group

Description:

Observational role in management of crises scenario

Treatment:

Behavioral: observational role