Format: 2-hour multidisciplinary team-training program

Includes:

Introductions

Review of Principles

Game Play

Review of participant experiences

2 Scenarios combined with facilitated debriefing

Venue: Emergency Department (In-situ)
Frequency: Monthly

Participants: Physicians, nurses, and allied health workers who work in the Emergency Department and Trauma Program.

Expertise Level: Senior Level

Course Leaders: Marisa Brett-Fleegler, MD, David Mooney, MD, Richard Bachur, MD, Josh Nagler, MD, Catherine Allan, MD, Michele Morin, RN, Maria McMahon, RN, Denise Downey, RN,  Shannon Manzi, PharmD

Objectives (3 Course Types by Topic):

• The program promotes the principles of crisis resource management in the service of team-training, enhancing provider communication, and promoting patient safety.

• It also addresses system issues and aims to identify latent safety threats.

• It is thus structured with a review of CRM principles, a discussion of participants’ real-life experiences, and is then followed by a series of two trauma scenarios and facilitated debriefing.