Resident Simulator Training Curriculum

Basic Anesthesia Skills

Simulation Tactical Training Session (STATS)

Goals:
To familiarize incoming anesthesiology residents with the operating room environment and care of an anesthetized patient.

Format:
Incoming first year clinical anesthesiology (CA-1) residents will be instructed in anesthesia machine evaluation, basic and rapid sequence induction, and other basic clinical scenarios.

Simulation Tactical Training (STAT) Curriculum

Scenarios cover a broad range of pre, intra and post-operative situations but revolve around core themes, including:

Rare and/or critical events
Team dynamics: conflict, leadership and supervision
Considering and prioritizing competing goals of management
Ethical challenges

Goals:

To experience and practice real-time management skills.
To exercise strategic implementation of primary and alternate plans by understanding and declaring risks and benefits.
To avoid fixation error; to develop a comprehensive picture and maintain flexibility in the face of dynamic clinical conditions.
To appropriately call for and manage help; to function effectively in the role of a helper.

Format:

Led by resident and faculty
Participants: all residents assigned to Feinberg and Prentice ORs
Short 7-10 minute scenario followed by structured debriefing
Held on alternate Thursdays (with Chair’s Morning Report) at 0600-0630

Sample topics covered:

Transfusion medicine
Conversion from MAC to GA
Wrong-site surgery
The Jehovah’s Witness patient
Airway management in an off-site location
Spinal cord injury
Local anesthetic toxicity
Withdrawal of care in an ICU patient
Delirium in the PACU
1Medication error