Assessing the Quality of Resident Verbal Hand-offs – Do You Know What Your Residents Are Communicating?

摘要

Educational Objectives: The goal of the model was toincrease familiarity with the concept of zipper entrapment,while the objectives were to attempt one or more of thevarious release techniques and to demonstrate successfulrelease while avoiding excessive hand motions.Curricular Design: As part of a voluntary emergencymedicine curriculum, we constructed a model for penilezipper entrapment using the Hasbro game Operationand materials easily obtainable and assembled in anyED. Forty-eight learners participated in the exercise.Participation was voluntary, was not graded or shared withthe residency director, and all feedback was formativein nature. Prior to the exercise, only 10% had treated thezipper entrapment complaint. After the exercise, almosthalf of the learners (47%) indicated they felt completelyor very comfortable regarding future cases of zipperentrapment.