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Resident Performance in a Surgical Skills Workshop on the Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage
2012 ASL Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To teach residents uterine-preserving techniques used to gain hemostasis at the time of laparotomy.
STUDY DESIGN: Residents were videotaped performing suture techniques on uterine models fashioned from golf club headcovers. Eight weeks later they attended a faculty lecture and again were videotaped. They were given a written pretest, posttest, and eight-weeks-delayed test. A surgical skills scoring checklist was used for blinded videotape analysis.
RESULTS: Twenty residents participated and 16 completed all workshop components. Residents showed significant improvement in checklist scores (10.2 +/- 3.9 vs 16.5 +/- 1.0, P = .001) and written test results (4.9 +/- 1.8 vs 7.2 +/- 1.7, P = .001 compared to posttest; 4.9 +/- 1.8 vs 6.2 +/- 1.6, P = .012 compared to delayed test) after the lecture. PGY1 pre-lecture checklist scores were significantly lower compared to other residents, however, post-lecture scores were similar among PGY levels.
CONCLUSION: Resident performance in the postpartum hemorrhage workshop improved after the faculty lecture.
Key words: hemostatic suture, postpartum hemorrhage, surgical skills workshop, uterine model, videotape
Topics:
2012, Resident, Residency Director, Patient Care, GME, Assessment, Simulation, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, General Ob-Gyn,
