An educational course including medical simulation for early goal-directed therapy and the severe sepsis resuscitation bundle: An evaluation for medical student training

A multinational randomised study comparing didactic lectures with case scenario in a severe sepsis medical simulation course

“…Combining these results with our previous study on medical students, the course may benefit all physicians-in-training regardless of prior clinical experience 22. Medical education is a complex system composed of various teaching and learning modalities 23.…”

“…The content of the 5 h course has been described previously 22. An evaluative test of 20 questions was given to all participants before beginning the course (pre-test), after completing the first part of the course (post-test 1) and at the end of the course (post-test 2) (figure 1).…”

“…We previously developed a medical simulation course for teaching EGDT and the severe sepsis resuscitation bundle 22. When used to educate medical students who had no previous clinical experience, we observed an improvement in knowledge and increased confidence in the management of patients with severe sepsis.…”

An investigation of the use of simulation tools in management education

“…Attempts to measure other types of outcome are less common, particularly when simulation games are used for teaching management. Several recent examples of research measuring cognitive-based outcomes in medicine and nursing education have been found, e.g., Ackermann (2009), Cherry et al (2007) and Nguyen et al (2009). However, they do not measure the impacts of simulation games; they measure the learning outcomes of high-fidelity simulations (for instance, performing reanimation techniques on electronic mannequins simulating human patients).…”

The impact of an electronic medical record surveillance program on outcomes for patients with sepsis

“…Nguyen et al studied a cohort of medical students at various levels providing simulated scenarios, workshops and lectures on septic shock. 13 Following two weeks of intensive simulated training, a significant improvement in how the students managed patients in septic shock was reported.…”