How to teach emergency procedural skills in an outdoor environment using low-fidelity simulation.
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.
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Electronic address: kdsaxon@gmail.com.
Kathleen D
KD
Saxon
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Alison P R
AP
Kapadia
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Nadia S
NS
Juneja
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Benjamin S
BS
Bassin
D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D013337:Students, Medical; D013907:Thoracostomy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D014139:Tracheostomy / Q000379:methods; D055813:Wilderness Medicine / Q000193:education*
simulation; wilderness medicine education