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BackgroundPrior to the Covid-19 pandemic, fourth year medical students on paediatric placement attended a simulation teaching session where groups of three to four students rotated around eight stations with two facilitators Volunteers were brought in to act as parents and a mixture of high and low fidelity manikins were patients The medical students acted as junior doctors and managed the cases as a team Due to Covid-19 restrictions, most simulation teaching sessions have been cancelled in other teaching hospitals We are currently piloting a simulation teaching session where social distancing regulations are observed Summary of WorkThe simulation session now consists of one extended case and each session will have three students and a facilitator A high fidelity manikin will act as the patient and a volunteer will act as a parent via Microsoft Teams video call Students will have to wear face masks, aprons, gloves and be 2 metres apart They will manage the case as a team but maintain appropriate social distance Pre and post simulation surveys have been developed for these sessions and students can complete them on their mobile devices via QR codes These surveys gather basic demographic information (age, gender, number of simulation training sessions attended previously) and use a Likert scale to compare the students confidence in: managing an acutely unwell child, communication and team-working skills Summary of ResultsData from pre-covid simulation teaching, where the Likert scale was used for surveys, showed a mean difference from the session of +0 75 in management skills domain (p<0 001), +0 67 in communication skills domain (p<0 001) and +0 19 in teamwork skills domain (p=0 024) 1 Data collection from the pilot sessions are ongoing and will be completed by the end of October Discussion and ConclusionsThis work will assess how the new restrictions impact on student experiences, their confidence in management of cases, communication and team-working skills compared to pre-Covid data It will also help clarify if simulation teaching sessions are more important now due to limited rotations around different wards Social distancing restrictions within a simulation teaching environment will also be reviewed to see if it could be relaxed to align with clinical areas A business case backed by this data, will also be put forward for funding of more equipment to allow multiple simulation sessions to run simultaneously ReferenceCarus C, Cooper M and Fishwick R 2015 Evaluating the use of a simulated ward round to improve medical students’ confidence in paediatric skills [poster] Association for Simulated Practice in Healthcare (ASPiH) Annual Conference, Nov 03 - 05, 2015, Brighton, England, United Kingdom
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