Online non-technical skills faculty training

Background: The Medical Students Non-Technical Skills (Medi-StuNTS) system is a behavioural marker system (BMS) designed to identify and debrief non-technical skills (NTS) for medical students during immersive simulation. Educators must be adequately trained in using the BMS. This study aimed to design and implement an online platform to deliver a faculty development course on using Medi-StuNTS and evaluate the feasibility of this platform in training faculty to identify and debrief NTS. Approach: The online platform was developed by faculty with expertise in NTS, based on guidance for faculty training programme requirements and the multimodal model for online education. Content was arranged in modules, using presentations, videos of simulation scenarios and interactive discussion boards. Evaluation: Fifteen participants completed the course and feedback over a two-month period. A feedback form was completed to assess feasibility, based on a feasibility framework. The areas of focus were acceptability, demand, implementation, practicality, adaptation, integration, expansion and limited efficacy. Feedback indicated that the course shows promise in improving the ability of faculty to identify and debrief NTS.