Research in Medical Education

  Introduction: Flexible Fiberoptic Bronchoscope (FFL) has an essential role in airway management especially in difficult intubation, unstable cervical spine due to trauma, airway examination and tracheal tube replacement. Therefore, this skill training is so important for anesthesia residents' and curriculum. The goal of this study was to compare the teaching of endotracheal intubation with FFL by intubating mannequin and cadaver to anesthesiology residents'.

  Method: This study was a randomized training trial in whole of anesthesia residents'(12 residents) in faculty of medicine in Guilan University of Medical Sciences,without preceding experience.After accomplish Pre-test based on DOPS by intubating mannequin, the residents' randomly were divided into two groups for training: intubating mannequin and cadaver. After teaching in the base of teaching plan, post test was taken. The results were analyzed by SPSS soft ware and paired sample T-test and ANOVA .

  Finding: Results with paired sample t-test indicated that mean score of each enclosures, before and after teaching was promoted in cadaver and teaching mannequin (P < 0.01). But between the mean alteration scores of two groups of the learners were not significant meaningful differences before and after teaching (P> 0.05).

  Results: Both of the intubating mannequin and cadaver could be effective in the endotracheal intubation teaching with FFL .And both of them could be resulted to increasing the mean scores after teaching .So ,applying cadaver such as the intubating mannequin could use in endotracheal teaching with FFL in the academic and medical centers .