Enhancing Efficiency in Medical Simulations: The Impact of Objective Feedback on User Interface Design

Despite central venous catheterization being a very prominent procedure, a significant portion of patients still experience complications. These complications are directly linked to the physician’s experience. To combat this problem, more advanced training is needed for residents. However, due to the mandated limited work hours of residents, the training needs to be efficient. The goal of this paper is to identify how the addition of real-time and post-performance feedback to a training simulator increases the efficiency of learning. Results show that not only does the inclusion of more feedback significantly increase the speed at which residents are able to perform, but their failure counts also decrease, indicating a higher accuracy. Therefore, integrating structured feedback into training simulators can play a key role in improving procedural competence and patient safety.