Interpretation
Although our study showed small improvements in some components of CPR after 2 semesters of teaching, this should not necessarily be interpreted as a reproach of our CC teaching. The results from this study should serve as important feedback and a reminder for us to focus on CPR training with unrelenting educational supervision, continuously focused on rehearsing those hard skills, regardless of how well soft skills (communication, time management, assertiveness, situational awareness, problem-solving, leadership, decision-making, etc.) are adopted or learned by our students. Moreover, teachers should ponder how to effectively use the students’ ability to solve complex situations or advanced scenarios in a synergistic way with their ability to execute CPR properly. For us teachers, this means that our supervision must be well balanced between emphasizing the understanding of CC situations simulated by advanced life support scenarios and rehearsing hard skills like CPR that can be simply mastered by repeated training.