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Mastery learning ensures correct personal protective equipment use in simulated clinical encounters of COVID-19

from Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

Mastery learning ensures correct personal protective equipment use in simulated clinical encounters of COVID-19 Western Journal of Emergency Medicine The correct use of personal protective equipment (PPE) limits transmission of serious communicable diseases to healthcare workers, which is critically important in the era of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, prior studies illustrated that healthcare workers frequently err during application and removal of PPE. The goal of this study was to determine whether a simulation-based, mastery learning intervention with deliberate practice improves correct use of PPE by physicians during a simulated clinical encounter with a COVID-19 patient. READ MORE

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