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Proficiency-based progression training (PBPT): trainees practice until an unambiguously demonstrated quantitative performance benchmark is reached, with metric-based feedback

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Description

PBPT is a training approach for high-volume, high-risk technical and non-technical skills in which trainees receive precise feedback proximate to performance and "a quantitative performance benchmark to work towards" that "should be a valid representation of the procedure". It requires learners to practice until the benchmark is unambiguously demonstrated, relying on a comprehensive quantitative characterisation of the skill. In this study PBPT principles underpinned the six-stage development of the ANTT wound-dressing observational metric, whose metrics and operational definitions offer specific goals for a training curriculum.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • A valid observational metric that quantitatively characterises the procedure, with operationally defined steps and errors, so feedback can delineate deviation from optimal performance

Constraints

Target Learners

  • trainee health care professionals learning acute surgical wound-dressing procedures

Learning Goals

  • proficient performance of aseptic non-touch technique during acute surgical wound dressings

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Hegarty Josephine, Howson Victoria, Wills Teresa, Creedon Sile A., Mc Cluskey Pat, Lane Aoife, Connolly Aine, Walshe Nuala, Noonan Brendan, Guidera Fiona, Gallagher Anthony G, Murphy Siobhan. (2019). Acute surgical wound‐dressing procedure: Description of the steps involved in the development and validation of an observational metric. International Wound Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.13072
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title Proficiency-based progression training (PBPT): trainees practice until an unambiguously demonstrated quantitative performance benchmark is reached, with metric-based feedback
description PBPT is a training approach for high-volume, high-risk technical and non-technical skills in which trainees receive precise feedback proximate to performance and "a quantitative performance benchmark to work towards"...
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