Assessing the accreditation council for graduate medical education requirement for temporary cardiac pacing procedural competency through simulation

Simulation in Healthcare

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 78-83

  Ahn, James ^a   Kharasch, Morris ^b   Aronwald, Richard ^b   Menon, Shekhar ^b   Du, Hogyan ^b   Calabrese, Nicole ^b   Gitelis, Mary ^b   Aitchson, Pamela ^b   Wang, Ernest ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

ACGME; Cardiac pacing; Graduate medical education; Procedural simulation; Simulation; Transcardiac pacing; Transvenous pacing

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION; HEART PACING; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; PROCEDURES;

ACCREDITATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY;

EID: 84876503257     PISSN: 15592332     EISSN: 1559713X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SIH.0b013e3182822336     Document Type: Article

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