Abstract
This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Introduction: at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, there was an urgent need to establish a teaching programme to rapidly upskill hospital staff in the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Aims: to train all members of clinical and non-clinical staff operating within the respiratory department of the Royal Brompton Hospital over a period of one week, using a series of multi-professional simulation-based sessions and to then share the learning points gained in order to assist others facing the same issue. Results: using an iterative style and a mastery learning model, the designated teaching faculty rapidly implemented a situated teaching programme, managing to train all staff members within the given timeframe. Given the time-critical nature of the programme, sessions required considerable flexibility to change to fit a learner-driven agenda, drawing benefits from an andragogical approach and an emphasis on interprofessional learning.
Highlights
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, all staff working within the respiratory department of the Royal Brompton Hospital (RBH), London, required training in the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
This allowed for rapid information dissemination and adequate cross-cover for sickness at a presumed rate of one third of faculty at any one time. This was based upon emerging data from the Royal College of Physicians suggesting that approximately 30% of London-based doctors had taken time off work since the arrival of COVID-19 in the UK (Royal College of Physicians, 2020)
Dr Benjamin Bennett is an IMT1 trainee at the Royal Brompton Hospital who began his journey into medical education following completion of a PGCert qualification in 2019. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0913-8255
Summary
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, all staff working within the respiratory department of the Royal Brompton Hospital (RBH), London, required training in the use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). To be effective, this training needed to encompass all staff members, including non-clinical staff; take place rapidly before the peak of the pandemic and consider the risk of transmission between staff during teaching. This training needed to encompass all staff members, including non-clinical staff; take place rapidly before the peak of the pandemic and consider the risk of transmission between staff during teaching This programme was designed to take place over a one-week period to ensure that staff were competent in the use of PPE before a significant risk of exposure developed
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