Lisa K Prince, Kevin C Abbott, Felicidad Green, Dustin Little, Robert Nee, James D Oliver, Erin M Bohen, Christina M Yuan
Objectively structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) are widely used in medical education, but we know of none described that are specifically for nephrology fellowship training. OSCEs use simulation to educate and evaluate. We describe a technically simple, multidisciplinary, low-cost OSCE developed by our program that contains both examination and training features and focuses on management and clinical knowledge of rare hemodialysis emergencies. The emergencies tested are venous air embolism, blood leak, dialysis membrane reaction, and hemolysis...
June 2014: American Journal of Kidney Diseases