In the first Debrief2Learn podcast, we discuss a recently published paper by McMullen et al in Simulation in Healthcare entitled: “Debriefing on Demand”: A Pilot Assessment of Using a “Pause Button” in Medical Simulation.1 The paper evaluates a novel strategy that allows learners to initiate a short, within-event, debriefing at any point during the simulation scenario. This technique is compared to conventional debriefing, where learners reflect on their performance after the event is over. The study offers a unique and interesting spin on debriefing that is learner-centered, challenging the traditional practice of debriefing after simulation scenarios. The concept mirrors that described by Eppich et al,2 where within event debriefings, or reflection-in-action, is termed “microdebriefing”.
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E001: Debriefing on Demand
Then share your thoughts with us below: Do you practice within-event debriefings, and if so, how are they structured? For what types of learning events is debriefing on demand most effective? Will the results of this paper change your practice?
References
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McMullen M, Wilson R, Fleming M, et al. “Debriefing-on-Demand”: A Pilot Assessment of Using a “Pause Button” in Medical Simulation.
Simul Healthc. 2016;11(3):157-163.
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Eppich W, Hunt E, Duval-Arnould J, Siddall V, Cheng A. Structuring feedback and debriefing to achieve mastery learning goals.
Acad Med. 2015;90(11):1501-1508.
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Adam Cheng is a Pediatric Emergency Doctor at Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary, Canada. As a clinician scientist in the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Adam conducts research focusing on cardiac arrest, CPR quality and debriefing. He helped to co-found the Debrief2Learn website.
Brent Thoma completed a fellowship in simulation at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and is the Director of Simulation in the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine. He is a co-founder of Debrief2Learn and is responsible for building and maintaining its website.
Vince Grant is a PEM physician at the Alberta Children's Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the University of Calgary. He has developed an international reputation in sim-based education and has taught extensively across North America and Europe. Vince's main academic interests include simulation program development, faculty development, debriefing methods, interprofessional education and distributed mobile simulation. He is one of the co-founders of Debrief2Learn.
Walter Eppich practices pediatric emergency medicine at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. He teaches about simulation, faculty development, and debriefing around the world. A candidate for a PhD in Medical Education at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, Walter studies the role of talk as a medium of learning for individuals and teams. He is a co-founder of Debrief2Learn.