Theme: intervention valuable (26 of 28 [93%])
traumas, trauma
Subtopic: entertaining and fun
“I mean I personally liked it a lot, so I was actually looking forward to doing the next session. The cases were fun to do and still at the end the review allowed you to sort of put it together, and get better at it actually, for the next time.”“I’d never done anything like that before in any of my training. But I liked that it felt like a game, and I liked getting the feedback from the person instantly through the coaching. I thought that was definitely, that’s how I learn best, getting some feedback right away.”“It was a good way of engaging and teaching information because I think I’ve been on Zoom the past year and a half listening to lectures and no one’s listening. So, this was for the you know adult learners who you know need kind of more than just listening to someone talk and look at the same slides you know it’s a much better way to learn.”Subtopic: a useful refresher of guidelines
“Yeah, I think it’s perfect. You know I think we as physicians we feel like, ‘Oh you know I’m going through training I know everything’ but we know that we forget.”“I think they were helpful. I realized that maybe some of my decisions that I make at work are not the best, like sometimes I’ll choose not to transfer patients when according to the simulation and according to you know speaking to the surgeon, I know they should be, even though I have the resources available and so that was really good to point that out to me. So, I think it’s actually going to change my practice a little bit.”Subtopic: provides evidence that underlies practice; distills clear learning point
“I know when to transfer and I know when not to but then you know kind of distilling it into what is it exactly about this patient, what are the reasons we make that decision. I guess it’s not like I sit and think about it. It was just kind of like that’s what we always do or that’s what we know what we usually do but this kind of like helped me kind of clarify in my mind what those criteria are. And I thought you know for someone [who] had no experience at a trauma center and they were going to go work somewhere that it’ll be a great way for them too especially at the resident level as well, but even anyone that was just changing their practice environment, using that too, it was a good way of engaging and teaching information…”Subtopic: provides language to discuss cases with consultant services
“I found [the sessions] valuable. They helped concretize some principles that I think I will use next time I’m actually speaking to somebody on the other end of the phone. And [coach] had a nice suggestion about how to, you know, craft that conversation. Because it’s a frustrating piece of our jobs, trying to get folks accepted and sort of make the right pitch to our person. And so, I think this was helpful for me to refine that language. You know, even though, I’ve been doing it [xx] years I feel like I’ve refined it quite a lot, but there’s always opportunity to get it a little bit better.”Subtopic: provides an opportunity to potentially improve patient outcomes
“I think if you know if other people can kind of pick up some of these learning lessons, more people will survive these traumas, so. Especially if you can somehow target like the critical access hospitals where there’s only like 1 or 2 docs, those are the places where if they can kind of, the lessons that the game has to teach [inaudible] I think it’ll save a lot of lives…”