Residents’ Lumbar Puncture Skills after Simulation-Based Education

Abstract

Researchers in the Departments of Medicine and Neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL evaluated the effect of simulation-based mastery learning (SBML) on internal medicine residents’ lumbar puncture (LP) skills, assessed neurology residents’ acquired LP skills from traditional clinical education, and compared the results of SBML to traditional clinical education.

Keywords

• simulation-based mastery learning
• lumbar puncture
• pgy1 internal medicine