Gunjan Tiyyagura1, Dorene Balmer2, Lindsey Chaudoin3, David Kessler4, Kajal Khanna5, Geetanjali Srivastava6, Todd P Chang7, Marc Auerbach8. 1. Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn. Electronic address: gunjan.kamdar@yale.edu. 2. Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex. 3. Department of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Mt Sinai Hospital, New York, NY. 4. Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University, New York, NY. 5. Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. 6. Department of Pediatrics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Tex. 7. Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif. 8. Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Graduate medical education is transitioning to the use of entrustable professional activities to contextualize educational competencies. Factors influencing entrustment decisions have been reported in adult medicine. Knowing how such decisions are made in pediatrics is critical to this transition. PURPOSE: To understand how supervisors determine the level of procedural supervision to provide a resident, taking into consideration simulation performance; to understand factors that affect supervisors' transparency to parents about residents' procedural experience. METHODS: We conducted 18 one-on-one interviews with supervisors in a tertiary care pediatric emergency department, iteratively revising interview questions as patterns in the data were elucidated. Two researchers independently coded transcripts and then met with the investigative team to refine codes and create themes. RESULTS: Five factors influenced supervisors' entrustment decisions: 1) resident characteristics that include self-reported confidence, seniority, and prior interactions with the resident; 2) supervisor style; 3) nature of the procedure/characteristics of the patient; 4) environmental factors; and 5) parental preferences. Supervisors thought that task-based simulators provided practice opportunities but that simulated performance did not provide evidence for entrustment. Supervisors reported selectively omitting details about a resident's experience level to families to optimize experiential learning for residents they entrusted to perform a procedure. CONCLUSIONS: In pediatrics, supervisors consider various factors when making decisions regarding resident procedural readiness, including parental preferences. An educational system using entrustable professional activities may facilitate holistic assessment and foster expertise-informed decisions about residents' progression toward entrustment; such a system may also lessen supervisors' need to omit information to parents about residents' procedural readiness.
BACKGROUND: Graduate medical education is transitioning to the use of entrustable professional activities to contextualize educational competencies. Factors influencing entrustment decisions have been reported in adult medicine. Knowing how such decisions are made in pediatrics is critical to this transition. PURPOSE: To understand how supervisors determine the level of procedural supervision to provide a resident, taking into consideration simulation performance; to understand factors that affect supervisors' transparency to parents about residents' procedural experience. METHODS: We conducted 18 one-on-one interviews with supervisors in a tertiary care pediatric emergency department, iteratively revising interview questions as patterns in the data were elucidated. Two researchers independently coded transcripts and then met with the investigative team to refine codes and create themes. RESULTS: Five factors influenced supervisors' entrustment decisions: 1) resident characteristics that include self-reported confidence, seniority, and prior interactions with the resident; 2) supervisor style; 3) nature of the procedure/characteristics of the patient; 4) environmental factors; and 5) parental preferences. Supervisors thought that task-based simulators provided practice opportunities but that simulated performance did not provide evidence for entrustment. Supervisors reported selectively omitting details about a resident's experience level to families to optimize experiential learning for residents they entrusted to perform a procedure. CONCLUSIONS: In pediatrics, supervisors consider various factors when making decisions regarding resident procedural readiness, including parental preferences. An educational system using entrustable professional activities may facilitate holistic assessment and foster expertise-informed decisions about residents' progression toward entrustment; such a system may also lessen supervisors' need to omit information to parents about residents' procedural readiness.
Authors: David O Kessler; Todd P Chang; Marc Auerbach; Daniel M Fein; Megan E Lavoie; Jennifer Trainor; Moon O Lee; James M Gerard; Devin Grossman; Travis Whitfill; Martin Pusic Journal: BMJ Simul Technol Enhanc Learn Date: 2016-10-28