Beatriz Adriane Rodrigues Gonçalves,1 Maria do Carmo Barros de Melo,2 Priscila Menezes Ferri Liu,2 Beatriz Cristina Heitmann Gomes Valente,3 Vívian Paiva Ribeiro,4 Pedro Henrique Vilaça e Silva4 1Department of Pediatrics, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil; 2Department of Pediatrics, Medicine School, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil; 3Department of Pediatrics, Faculdade de Minas-BH, Belo Horizonte, Minas

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... ais, Brazil; 4Faculdade de Minas-Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, BrazilCorrespondence: Maria do Carmo Barros de Melo, Department of Pediatrics, Medicine School, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Avenida Professor Alfredo Balena, 190. Bairro Santa Efigênia, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, CEP: 30.130-100, Brazil, Tel +55-31-9847-09444, Fax +55-31-3409-9745, Email mcbmelo@gmail.comBackground: Simulation training and teamwork for medical students are essential to improve performance in pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation.Purpose: To evaluate if a specific approach to teamwork improves technical and nontechnical performance.Methods: We performed quasiexperimental, prospective, pre- and postinterventional, and nonrandomized research with 65 students in the fourth year of their medicine course. This was a case–control study in which teams used a customized TeamSTEPPS protocol (n=34) or not (n=31) for cardiopulmonary arrest training in children using high-fidelity simulation. All participants answered a sociodemographic and satisfaction questionnaire and underwent theory and practice pre- and posttesting. The survey data were collected in 2019 and analyzed using ?2, Mann–Whitney, ?, and Wilcoxon tests. p< 0.05 was considered significant.Results: Intervention and control groups achieved better scores in theory posttesting (p< 0.001 and p=0.049), but there was no difference between them in pre- (p=0.291) and posttesting (p=0.397). In the checklist of the practice test, all groups obtained their best outcomes in po [...]