“Let's Talk About It”: Translating Lessons From Health Care Simulation to Clinical Event Debriefings and Coaching Conversations

Despite proven benefits for team and individual performance, a number of perceived barriers limit clinical post –event debriefings, which impacts health care team functioning and patient care. An overemphasis on debriefing after rare events such as cardiac arrest and major trauma resuscitations necessarily means that debriefings will also occur infrequently as well. Similarly, individual coaching conversati ons that would help promote trainee skill acquisition are lacking. This situation stands in stark contrast to other experiential learning domains such as health care simulation, which view structured feedback, coaching, and debriefing as integral to its educational practices.

Source: Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine - August 31, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Walter J. Eppich, Paul C. Mullan, Marisa Brett-Fleegler, Adam Cheng Source Type: research