PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lawrence M. Gillman
AU  - Doug Martin
AU  - Paul T. Engels
AU  - Peter Brindley
AU  - Sandy Widder
AU  - Cheryl French
TI  - S.T.A.R.T.T. plus: addition of prehospital personnel to a national multidisciplinary crisis resource management trauma team training course
AID  - 10.1503/cjs.010915
DP  - 2016 Feb 01
TA  - Canadian Journal of Surgery
PG  - 9--11
VI  - 59
IP  - 1
4099  - http://canjsurg.ca/content/59/1/9.short
4100  - http://canjsurg.ca/content/59/1/9.full
SO  - CAN J SURG2016 Feb 01; 59
AB  - The Simulated Trauma and Resuscitation Team Training (S.T.A.R.T.T.) course is a unique multidisciplinary trauma team training course deliberately designed to address the common crisis resource management (CRM) skills of trauma team members. Moreover, the curriculum has been updated to also target the specific learning needs of individual participating professionals: physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists. This commentary outlines further modifications to the course curriculum in order to address the needs of a relatively undertargeted group: prehospital personnel (i.e., emergency medical services). Maintenance of high participant satisfaction, regardless of profession, suggests that the S.T.A.R.T.T. course can be readily modified to incorporate prehospital personnel without losing its utility or popularity.