How might we design an innovative medical education model that motivates learners and improves their skills at airway management?
Client
Weill-Cornell Medicine | NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
The Challenge
The Protected Airway Collaborative (PAC) is a medical education community dedicated to creating the future of critical airway management training. Airway management training is an important tool for medical learners as they develop crucial skills that can prepare an individual in the stressful moments of intensive care while saving lives.
Process
Methodology
To explore the research question, the team followed a design thinking methodology. You can view this project in depth here.
 Identifying the position of the PAC community in the healthcare system. |  Interviewing experts to generate qualitative data. |  Qualitative data coding into themes. |
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 Co-designing with primary stakeholders to map the efficacy of over 100 existing posters. |  Identifying content modules through a micro-audit of existing visuals. |  Interacting with learners and educators using a design probe. |
 Synthesizing insights and learnings. |  Designing a system of educational posters as prototypes. |  Testing the prototypes at the PAC Live Event on May 14th, 2022. |
Impact
“It is not only about what we learn, but how we learn it that is important. How we learn can help us place knowledge in context, it can help us problem solve, and understand our predicament better when faced with a challenge.”
— Dr. John Browning
Role
Design Researcher
Team
Sophia Geanacopoulos, Kexin Zhang, Yuyao (Wooyo) Jin, Krutika Galgalikar