title: An Approach to Confederate Training Within the Context of Simulation-Based Research.
abstract: Simulation-based education often relies on confederates, who provide information or perform clinical tasks during simulation scenarios, to play roles. Although there is experience with confederates in their more routine performance within educational programs, there is little literature on the training of confederates in the context of simulation-based research. The CPR CARES multicenter research study design included 2 confederate roles, in which confederates' behavior was tightly scripted to avoid confounding primary outcome measures. In this report, we describe our training process, our method of adherence assessment, and suggest next steps regarding confederate training scholarship.
authors.affiliation: From the Pediatrics and Medical Education (M.D.A.), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Hasbro Children's Hospital (F.O.), Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI; The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (V.M.N.), University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; KidSIM-ASPIRE Simulation Research Program (J.D.), Alberta Children's Hospital University of Calgary; Montreal Children's Hospital (R.G., I.B.), McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Baystate Children's Hospital (K.M.), Springfield, MA; Yale-New Haven Health (S.S), New Haven, CT; and KidSIM-ASPIRE Simulation Research Program (V.J.G., A.C.), Department of Pediatrics, Alberta Children's Hospital, Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
authors.forename: Mark D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Adler
authors.forename: Frank L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Overly
authors.forename: Vinay M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Nadkarni
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Davidson
authors.forename: Ronald
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gottesman
authors.forename: Ilana
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bank
authors.forename: Kimberly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Marohn
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sudikoff
authors.forename: Vincent J
authors.initials: VJ
authors.lastname: Grant
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cheng
mesh_terms: D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care; D016730:Program Development; D012381:Role Playing; D000066908:Simulation Training / Q000592:standards*; D013663:Teaching