Glenn is an Emergency Department RN who has basically seen it all through his fifteen years of practice. One day, a teenager is rolled into the trauma bay in cardiac arrest after a horrific car crash. Despite the team’s best efforts, the resuscitation fails and the teenager dies. Afterwards, Glenn is shaken and wants to talk. The trauma team leader organizes a debrief but doesn’t seem like she knows what to say, and there’s …
CAEP GeMES | Workplace based assessments in competency based education
Aurora, a junior resident, is in a meeting with her residency training committee when the topic of competency-based education arises. Her institution will implement competency-based training starting next year and her program director has major reservations. Her program director says, “I can’t see how we can have time to evaluate all of these tasks for learners while we are supposed to simultaneously manage a complex and busy department!” Aurora wonders what these evaluations might look …