Jigsaw Group-Based Learning in Difficult Airway Management: An Alternative Way to Teach Surgical Didactics.

Journal of Surgical Education
James Alrassi, Melissa Mortensen

Abstract

We describe the effectiveness of the Jigsaw method in the instruction of residents in difficulty airway management. The residents were given a pre-Jigsaw instruction test and a self-assessment of their skills for bag-mask ventilation, Intubation, cricothyrotomy, and tracheostomy. After the completing the pre-test, they were randomly assigned tasks from A-D, with each letter corresponding to a section of reading from Cumming's Otolaryngology and related questions. The residents were given ten minutes to read their portion of the article, and then another ten minutes to discuss their section with others assigned the same responsibilities, thereby becoming "experts." Then, the "experts" were assigned to a second group where they had ten minutes to teach their peers their designated material and learned from their peers the other designated material. A skill simulation lab was then performed involving intubation, cricothyrotomy, and tracheotomy. The residents were then given a post-Jigsaw instruction test and post simulation lab selfassessment of their skills for bag-mask ventilation, intubation, cricothyrotomy and tracheotomy. Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. General surgery, otolaryngology, plastic surger...Continue Reading

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