Morbidity and mortality as a televideoconference: A randomized prospective evaluation of learning and perceptions

Surgical Morbidity and Mortality Conference using Teleconferencing Allows for Increased Faculty Participation and Moderation from Satellite Campuses and Saves Costs

“…6 We speculate that perceptions at UPMC St Margaret Hospital would be more favorable than perceptions at UPMC Shadyside Hospital because UPMC St Margaret Hospital is located further from UPMC Presbyterian University Hospital. Unfortunately, an area of weakness in this study is that attitudes about teleconferencing were not retrospectively available.…”

“…Teleconferencing can help maximize educational efficiency and opportunities in programs with multiple training sites. 6 Moreover, distance-based technologies and telecommunication can provide cost-effective and sustainable ways of improving medical education. 7 However, there is a paucity of literature in this educational domain in surgery.…”

Morbidity and mortality meetings: gold, silver or bronze?

“…Characteristics of the included studies are reported in Tables and . The evidence base was heterogeneous in terms of study design and outcomes, and included descriptive studies, cross‐sectional surveys of staff perceptions about an M&M process, controlled before‐and‐after studies of new M&M formats and one RCT . The methodological quality of the included literature reviews was found to be low to medium .…”

“…The methodological quality of the included literature reviews was found to be low to medium . The included RCT had a medium risk of bias . Full results of the quality appraisal are reported in Appendix S2 and Tables S4–S7.…”

Effects of efforts to optimise morbidity and mortality rounds to serve contemporary quality improvement and educational goals: a systematic review

“…One methodologically strong study demonstrated increased discussion of collaboration, scholarship and professionalism at M&M rounds when attendees were given prompts corresponding to domains from a competency framework (CanMEDS) 40. Enhanced knowledge acquisition was demonstrated in one study that standardised the presentation format using the Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation tool,42 while another study that assessed knowledge acquisition (with a similarly strong quality score) found no difference between test scores of general knowledge in those attending M&M rounds via teleconference and those attending on site 44…”