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Special Sessions
HOSPITAL AUTHORITY CONVENTION 2017

SS2.3 Simulation in Clinical Training and Assessment 13:15 Theatre 2

Teaching Crew Resource Management with Clinical Simulation: We Learned More than We Taught
Choi YF
Accident and Emergency Department, Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital, Hong Kong
Clinical simulation is such a fascinating tool for staff participants as well as trainers. The Nethersole Clinical Simulation
Training Center (NCSTC) of Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital has been hosting simulation training as a tool for
crew resource management (CRM) since 2014 sponsored by the Hospital Authority. We developed a whole day course with
only about 30 minutes didactic content in contrast to most of the local CRM training courses. Two years is over, it is out of
our expectation that we as trainers actually learned more than we taught. A phenomenon of social constructivism has been
well observed throughout the time and we learned a lot of new perspectives about CRM through debriefing by taking the
viewpoints from participants and observations from trainers. The conclusions are: we started to teach CRM without knowing
what actually it was from the beginning and the participants enabled us to gain a deeper insight on how the subject worked
locally. The power of simulation was beyond our imagination. Besides the above findings, we also appreciated that clinical
simulation could possibly be used as a diagnostic tool for micro-culture of a department for educators and management staff
to formulate future training strategy.

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