Student Feedback

Feedback provided to us about the RESUS Student SIM Man sessions includes:

  • Increased confidence in my ability to treat critically ill patients
  • Well trained teachers who knew their stuff
  • Relevant scenarios & plenty of interaction
  • Great to get hands on and see how we would cope
  • Good to address the panic and fear of assessing ill patient
  • Common scenarios covered which helped to increase my confidence in dealing with things I will encounter as an FY1
  • It was interactive and made me realise the gaps in my knowledge in a safe environment
  • Very hands on, brilliant teaching and feedback

Below is a comprehensive list of all the feedback received after individual sessions: (Green – what was good about the sessions, Red – what could be improved in the sessions)

Poole 17th September’15:

  • Very interactive and real
  • Good feedback
  • Good scenarios
  • Good integration of ABCDE
  • Feels like a real patient
  • Really good scenarios
  • Thorough feedback
  • Website treatments guidelines
  • Being put on the spot
  • Really good to run through scenarios
  • Good supportive teaching
  • Learned loads
  • Nothing – microphone better
  • Not really anything regarding teaching
  • Maybe just the microphone

Further Comments: Really good session! Second session, feel more confident already

Poole 10th September’ 15:

  • Interactive
  • Practice
  • Follow ABC rather than treatment or diagnosis
  • Really hands on
  • Good teaching of ABCDE & Sepsis
  • N/A

Further Comments: Very useful session!; Thank you!; Really good session; Definitely makes me feel more confident; Sepsis teaching was particularly useful; Practical bit was fun and help/constructive.

Poole 19th August’ 15:

  • Good to practice scenarios
  • Really useful
  • Good to get feedback
  • Hands on practice
  • Immediate feedback
  • Small group size
  • All of it was excellent
  • Great scenarios
  • Comfortable environment so didn’t feel stupid
  • Good level of teaching
  • Interactive
  • Could ask questions
  • Small group

Further Comments: Good session!

Poole 16th July ’15:

  • Guidance
  • Well taught
  • Good variation of scenarios
  • Practising the scenario
  • Doing several scenarios
  • Guidance
  • Teaching
  • Useful to have teaching first on ABCDE
  • Enjoyed all scenarios
  • Fell more confortable with ABCDE
  • Technical issues
  • Microphone working

Poole 12th March ’15:

  • Hands on

Poole 5th March’ 15:

  • Good topics not covered before
  • Useful advice on when / who to get help from
  • Really good to go through

Further Comments: thank you

Poole 26th February ’15:

  • Great scenarios
  • Pushed our knowledge
  • Non threatening environment
  • Experience actually what to do
  • SIM man experience is very helpful
  • Good feedback and chances for case discussion at the end
  • Really helpful session
  • Non threatening environment
  • Technology to work better but that’s not your fault
  • Technology didn’t work
  • Few technical issues

Further Comments: Thank you = )

Poole 22nd January’ 15:

  • Good to pick up on weaknesses / things need to improve on
  • Approachable & knowledgeable
  • SIMMan to work better

Poole 11th December’ 14:

  • Enjoyed time in your session as good feedback and we had gone as far as we could go
  • Good feedback afterwards
  • Well run simulation – realistic and good for me and colleagues as we had the chance to improve from last week
  • Good feedback, well laid out, helpful teaching
  • Realistic, informative, good feedback, relevant teaching, informal session
  • Excellent debriefing
  • Teaching on each scenario afterwards
  • More scenarios

Further Comments: None, thanks very much for your help; V good overall!; 

Poole 4th December’ 14:

  • Well run scenarios 
  • Learning outcomes at the start
  • Well structured feedback – interesting way of creating differential diagnosis by working backwards
  • Lots of feedback
  • Good explanation of next steps / who to call for help
  • Different way of thinking about the symptoms/differentials.
  • Practical, feedback, good to have teaching mixed in.
  • Good practice – well set up
  • Good feedback on cases
  • Perfect length of time
  • N/A – only that hopefully get the chance to do it again!
  • More sessions!
  • Notes / handouts

Further Comments: None, thanks very much; Really good session – thank you; Thanks!

Poole 20th November’ 14:

  • Realistic scenarios & relaxed
  • Good feedback and advice
  • Feedback at the end
  • Liked the way it wasn’t too formal
  • Was done in a relaxed environment
  • Supervisors were friendly and approachable
  • Good hands on experience
  • Increased confidence in my ability to treat critically ill patients
  • Practiced A-E
  • Had some technical issues which stopped the flow a bit at times
  • Had a few technical issues
  • Handouts

Further Comments: Thank you was really helpful!; Thank you

Poole 13th November’ 14

  • Experience dealing with acute scenarios on your own
  • Scenarios that I have not come across in a while
  • Very hands on experience
  • The feedback at the end of each session was helpful
  • The introduction at the beginning – ABCDE
  • Intro to using SIM as every hospital has a slightly different approach
  • N/A

Poole 6th November’14

  • Good feedback after
  • Hands on experience
  • Thorough, Helpful feedback
  • Feedback
  • Teaching on how to treat these conditions
  • Nice having an assistant being able to assist
  • Interaction with SIM Man
  • Forces you to think on your feet
  • Maybe a patient slide about the scenario
  • Nothing
  • Nothing really good, good to keep practising
  • More realistic SIM Man

Further comments: Thank you

Poole 30th October’ 14

  • Realistic scenarios
  • Well run
  • Great feedback & teaching
  • Had some technical issues but otherwise than that it was good

Poole 16th October ’14

  • Relevant scenarios & plenty of interaction
  • Good teaching
  • Reflection on each scenario
  • Assisting other students & well structured
  • Good learning experience
  • Teaching to a high standard
  • Good feedback – good debrief
  • Good cases
  • Kind/friendly/approachable

 Poole 9th October ’14:

  • Lots of feedback
  • Practise in practical procedures
  • Discussion of physiology behind ABC
  • Practice x3 & good feedback
  • Really grind ABCDE
  • Fantastic teaching & real scenarios
  • Great feedback 
  • More time talking through when observing

Further comments: Very very good. Highly highly recommend

 Poole 11th Spetember ’14:

  • Detailed & interactive
  • Good teaching
  • Everyone had a go and good to observe as well as participate
  • Talk through each scenario
  • Great for everyone to practice and observe
  • Useful to talk through afterwards and ask student what went well and what didn’t go so well
  • Useful for observers to have checklists for person doing the scenarios to take away
  • Very practically orientated
  • Realistic & very helpful
  • Well trained teachers who knew their stuff
  • Relevant scenarios & plenty of interaction
  • Steps to make it more real – have patient in separate room, have sim man breathing etc

Further comments: It’s really good thank you. Fantastic! It’s also great to have the website to refer to afterwards. Thankyou.

Poole 4th Spetember ’14:

  • Good feedback
  • Good to go through fluids
  • Interactive
  • Small group 
  • Not much
  • More involved in the case / more life like

Further comments: Brilliant thank you, very helpful

 Poole 28th August ‘14

  • Good review of how scenarios went
  • Great to get hands on and see how we would cope
  • Not much. Very thorough and friendly

Further comments:  Great thanks!! Appreciate the time you’ve given to this.

 Poole 21st August ‘14

  • Variety of scenarios
  • Good to address the panic and fear of assessing ill patient
  • Good feedback and explanation
  • Good scenarios
  • Pre reading around teaching conditions

 Poole 17th July ‘14:

  • Going through the sessions after
  • Shockable / non shockable rhythms
  • Good practice
  • Learnt from my own mistakes and others’ mistakes

Futher comments: Thank you

Poole 10th July ‘14:

  • Putting us out of comfort zones & was really useful
  • Put on the spot in a pressured but safe environment
  • Good teaching & good feedback
  • Everything
  • No need to go over the powerpoint at the beginning as we had this at our intro week
  • Could be given management options about clinical cases as knowledge was bad
  • Nothing

Futher comments: Very useful – more of the same please! Really enjoyed the session!

Poole 3rd July ‘14:

  • Fab opportunity to practice and receive feedback
  • Excellent facilities & good feedback
  • Knowledge impartment excellent
  • Informative, well structured
  • Well taught
  • Nothing

Further comments: Thank you! Excellent ideas and feedback. Thank you!

 Poole 26th June ‘14

  • Feedback & check lists
  • Individual opportunity to practice
  • Really valuable, good level of difficulty, great feedback & practice
  • Talking through them after
  • Was really helpful

Further comments: Thank you!

Poole 19th June ‘14

  • A chance to practice & feedback
  • Practice opportunity
  • Learning opportunity & good feedback
  • Will help increase our confidence
  • Everything
  •  Longer session
  • More scenarios
  • More sessions if possible
  • Nothing

Further Comments: GREAT!

 Poole 27th March ‘14

  • Good reinforcement of ABCDE approach
  • Friendly environment – felt encouraged to participate
  • Common scenarios covered which helped to increase my confidence in dealing with things I will encounter as an FY1
  • Good take home messages eg. Refer to protocols and call for help and follow ABCDE approach
  • Could be made slightly more realistic for example having a phone and actually making calls eg for crash team or to ask for advice – to get more familiar with using communication tools like SBAR

Further comments: Thank you! Also the website is really good

Poole 13th March ‘14

  • Good practice & using clinical skills
  • Airway management
  • Using defib

Further comments: V good

 Poole 6th March ‘14

  • Interactive learning & useful scenarios (realistic)
  • Felt like a real situation
  • Had dummy equipment to work with
  • Had people senior more trained to guide us
  • Put on the spot so you can really think of solutions
  • Took control of situations
  • Very good at giving concise information on the scenarios
  • Very nice teachers who were calm and helpful
  • Small team and didn’t run for too long
  • Great intro lecture to get you in the zone
  • Helpful sheets given for each scenario
  • More sessions not on the same day but more often
  • Another sheet on anaphylactic shock

Further comments: Thankyou very useful session. Thankyou. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thankyou for your time

 Poole 27th February ‘14

  • Practising scenarios encountered in hospital
  • Nice and interactive
  • Non threatening environment
  • Good opportunity to practice emergency medicine
  • Comfortable environment
  • Good learning points – teaching

Further comments: Thankyou, More of the same, Thankyou very useful session

Poole 20th February ‘14

  • Interactive & real time
  • Practice with equipment / defib
  • Like mock OSCEs

Further comments: Great, thankyou

Poole 13th February ‘14

  • Very informative
  • Interactive
  • Hands on
  • Expands knowledge
  • Builds confidence

Poole 30th January ‘14:

  • The faculty were excellent
  • The ability to practice in a non pressurised environment
  • Excellent & very interactive
  • Realistic
  • Nothing

Further comments: Very enjoyable

 Poole 23rd January ‘14

  • The feedback and interactive nature of the session
  • The clear friendly tuition
  • Faculty very useful
  • Non threatening
  • Nothing

 Poole 9th January ‘14:

  • Practice Sim situations
  • Talking through rationale for stages
  • Clear explanations
  • Practice experience
  • Added knowledge
  • Working equipment to improve realism

 Poole 19th December ’13:

  • Actually not having the obs up meant you had to be constantly going through them in your head – made me think more
  • Good explanation of treatment
  • Good feedback on performance & interactive
  • Time for reflection
  • Thinking about algorithms for different situations
  • Practice of ABCDE
  • IT all working properly
  • If more people – could have a team leader and drones

 Poole 12th December ’13:

  • Useful just to practice & good variety of scenarios
  • Good teachers
  • Very good session well organised and useful topics
  • More scenarios
  • Were some technical issues

Poole 5th December ’13:

  • Useful to just do scenarios
  • Helpful to watch others from a different room as you can think through what you would do
  • Good that it is in a small group session
  • Feedback was useful to have straight after the scenarios
  • Interactive
  • Talked through algorithms of what would happen
  • Put under some pressure
  • Tick boxes so still actively focussing on the scenario I was not part of
  • It was interactive and made me realise the gaps in my knowledge in a safe environment
  • There was plenty of constructive feedback
  • The doctors taking the session were extremely friendly and enthusiastic
  • More scenarios
  • More scenarios
  • Perhaps the medical student leading the scenario could be more involved in doing interventions that the FY1 would need to do (and nurse wouldn’t usually do)
  • More of them!

Poole 21st November ’13:

  • Really good and helpful
  • Really useful teaching thankyou

Poole 14th November ’13:

  • Really good, helpful and encouraging environment
  • Interactive & good clear teaching
  • Hands on & good introduction
  • Demonstration useful
  • Very good to go through the scenarios
  • Great session thankyou very much
  • Good knowledge & not intimidating
  • Learnt alot

Poole 24th october ’13:

  • Good teaching / teachers
  • Good scenarios – well run
  • The relaxed, informal nature of the session & the non-judgemental attitude of the faculty
  • The simple structure that can be applied to all situations
  • Fantastic feedback & structured teaching
  • Really will help me as an F1
  • Small group & very interactive
  • Attempt scenarios on your own (scary but helpful)
  • Chance to do more scenarios
  • We did some experimental scenarios so Im sure they’ll be brilliant once fully organised
  • More handouts

Further comments: Really good session! Great scenarios – these are very helpful

Poole 17th October ’13:

  • Really good to have a go alone (only done as a group before)
  • Feedback really helpful & teaching good, very encouraging
  • The style of the tutors – encouraging
  • The realism of the scenarios
  • The learning points straight after each scenario
  • The emphasis on the simplicity of the ABCDE approach
  • Brilliant teachers & very clear explanation
  • Excellent feedback & good treatment / context and explanation
  • Good well run scenarios & useful clinical application
  • I honestly can’t think of anything. Much more of this.
  • Maybe hand outs
  • Working equipment

Further comments: Thank you very much

Poole 10th October ’13:

  • Great feedback
  • Great organised session, thank you
  • Really good realistic scenarios & hands on practice
  • Very helpful feedback and advice
  • Individual practice
  • Teamwork
  • Two hours just about enough
  • Short overview of how to manage different emergencies
  • Quicker response on the monitor

Further comments:  Thank you

Poole 19th September ’13:

  • Ability to practice
  • Post scenario discussion
  • Not giving it away too easily
  • Really well explained scenarios
  • Good introduction power point
  • Get someone (even if they are watching the scenario) to look up drug dose if it’s unknown in the BNF – just to get used to doing it)

Further comments: Very useful session: Found it very valuable

Poole 12th September ’13

  • The introduction
  • Relaxed atmosphere, in pairs & good feedback positive focus
  • Interactive & informative
  • Learnt while observing and participating
  • Took me out of my comfort zone & really useful sessions
  • Good scenarios & use of obs machine really useful
  • Good teaching around topics
  • Handouts please
  • More sessions please
  • Not any longer
  • More sessions – they are really beneficial
  • Include drug charts

Further comments: SIM man sessions are extremely useful

Poole 5th September ’13:

  • Everyone got a chance to lead and to assist & variety of scenarios
  • Seeing chest xray was a good idea and analysing ABGs
  • Good scenarios & clearly explained
  • Useful to go through with ABCDE
  • Liked the small group teaching usually only ever done SIM man with big groups
  • Inclusion of drug chart and obs chart was good
  • Range of scenarios was really good
  • It would be useful for the second person in the scenario to attach the monitoring etc

Further comments: Really useful session

Poole 28th August ’13:

  • Opportunity to observe
  • The level of interactive teaching
  • Interactive & everyone got to lead and assist
  • Checklist
  • Interactive & laid back teaching environment
  • Knowledgeable teachers
  • Very interactive using equipment not so familiar with
  • Having to think on the spot
  • Really enjoyed it, great teaching, keep doing them!
  • More sessions on other topics

Further comments: Thanks for the teaching session and hope you keep running them

Poole 21st August ’13:

  • Really interactive & good feedback
  • Able to watch each other & repetitive in a good way!
  • Very hands on, brilliant teaching and feedback
  • 4 scenarios was good
  • Using defib
  • Excellent practice session & went through the basics of ABCDE and what to look for
  • Nothing!
  • More sessions – but this is probably not realistic

Further comments: It was really good! Thanks! Loved the session, good mix between observation and actual practice. Please do more 🙂 . Have more sim man sessions

Poole 24th July ‘ 13:

  • More complex scenarios useful & good feedback
  • Very interactive &  scenarios different to the normal ones
  • Good teaching & good scenarios
  • Knowledgeable teachers
  • Fun environment & friendly
  • Knowledgeable 
  • Hands on & good opportunity to practice ABCD in a safe environment
  • Being talked through things if stuck
  • Something to compound learning e.g. handout
  • More scenarios
  • Less SIM man death
  • Watch CPR/scenario first
  • Possibly being shown first/after/in between

Further comments: More of this. Keep doing the sessions. Thanks. Thank you. Please continue these sessions in the future. Very helpful. Thanks.