In this interactive lecture, Dr. Betsy Hunt, from Johns Hopkins University, discusses Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice (RCDP)1, a novel instructional method for simulation-based learning that incorporates multiple repetitions of short simulations with interspersed feedback. In a prospective pre-post interventional study of RCDP for cardiac arrest management, Dr. Hunt found that this method was associated with improvement in key performance measures for high quality life support in the first five minutes of resuscitation. Dr. Hunt discusses the ideal context for using RCDP, how to design scenarios for RCDP and explores how feedback delivered during RCDP is different than traditional terminal debriefing.
What do you think about RCDP? What have your experiences been with RCDP? How should feedback be structured during RCDP?2 Is there still a role for terminal debriefing in RCDP, and if so, what should the focus be on during debriefing?
References
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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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Hunt E, Duval-Arnould J, Nelson-McMillan K, et al. Pediatric resident resuscitation skills improve after “rapid cycle deliberate practice” training.
Resuscitation. 2014;85(7):945-951.
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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.
Elizabeth A. Hunt, MD, MPH, PhD, “Betsy”, is the David S. and Marilyn M. Zamierowski Director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Center. She is currently an attending pediatric Intensivist in the Johns Hopkins Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, and an Associate Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine and Pediatrics and is Chair of the Johns Hopkins CPR Advisory Committee. She is a founding member and Senior Co-Chair of INSPIRE.