Day 13
Another 7 am wake up, locked office (if you bet on us being there first, you were correct), and calling responders in the back of the Uber. Shoutout to Chika for her amazing dedication and patience, particularly in repeating our “confidence level” question countless times. Also shoutout to Aayush: a responder we had tried to call called him back at 12:30 am but didn’t believe who he was so he did the interview on a face time call.
Today we were training at an FRSC location, but they had only reserved one room for us when we needed separate rooms for the online and in-person training. We found another small room a bit away outside, that definitely couldn’t fit half of the people we had scheduled. It had a small tv but they had lost the remote, so that had to be our in-person training room and we showed the slides on Aayush’s laptop and passed out printed copies. But before we get to that…
People actually started showing up before 9 (and then kept showing up until 12, missing the pre test and some of the material). Unfortunately, a lot of people didn’t have internet based devices or their phones weren’t working/out of battery, so we had to pass around all our devices, which took a while. However, Haleigh eventually found out that even though she was logged into three different gmails on her phone, laptop, and iPad, the pages kept refreshing and reverting back to her main gmail, losing the participant progress. And with people showing up late, many had been finished with the test for half an hour while others were just starting.
Luckily, the videos had been downloaded, but the audio was so quiet, especially in an open air room. We finally obtained a speaker, which had microphones but no other cords to connect. We put the microphone right up to the speaker of the projector, which helped, but it was still too quiet for anyone to understand fully. After at least an hour and a half of trying to figure out the audio (connecting our phones via usb port, having the microphone next to our phone speaker, putting a flash drive in the speaker), the guy that brought the speaker finally decided to tell us the speaker had Bluetooth. This worked great until the fracture splinting video, which is quieter for some reason and required lots of pausing throughout to get the participants to be extra quiet and calm down their complaining about hunger. So around 11:30 we were finally able to start the video training. We only had 30 people signed up, but there were at least 40 people in just the video room, with 15 more in the in-person (which had started an hour previously, thanks to our great TOTs). The in-person training did their airway breakout sessions for at least an hour, despite attempts to speed up, which did allow the video training to catch up. There was zero space for the online participants to do breakout sessions, so they came up and demonstrated, but with so many people it was definitely difficult to get everyone engaged.
Towards the end, everyone got a bit agitated because they were hot and hungry. Chika tried to calm the situation but people weren’t listening. Mary tried to help so she assigned all the participants a number to go do the practical assessments. They calmed down a little bit but every now and then, they got frustrated. HEI Mary then tried to get people out as fast as possible by giving them their certificates and first aid kits. The trainees wanted to take pictures with some of us but we were trying to finish the practical assessments and pack everything up. Everyone claimed they did the practical assessments, but the numbers didn’t add up. Overall better training than the first training though! Chika pointed out problems with Haleigh’s skin again, this time about how pale it was. Haleigh explained she’s never tanned in her life, she only burns, and Chika thought that was so sad.
Once everyone was finished, we began getting everything together so we could leave and then Chika gave us some food. This time, Mary knew she wouldn’t be able to handle the spice and instead decided she was going to get KFC. When she got in the Uber, HEI Mary generously ordered Mary KFC and had it delivered to our hotel room, making sure to tell them no spice. The KFC was really crunchy so Mary tried to be as quiet as possible eating it, since Haleigh was trying to sleep. Sorry Haleigh but that KFC was finger lickin’ good.
After long naps for all of us, we congregated in the restaurant downstairs. Mary was a trooper in some 20 minute conversations with responders while Haleigh and Aayush cleaned our data from today. This proved to be more difficult because people either didn’t fill out pre or post tests, or filled it out on the wrong link, and sometimes their names are spelled differently on the pre and post from auto correct or different ordering. Anyways, we figured it out - trainees are doing well on the simulations with averages around 85%, but not as well on the tests, although there’s large variation with some doing well and some doing rather poorly. However, it’s generally across the board with in-person and video, which is promising for our trial results.
After some dinner and Haleigh graciously offering some chocolate covered pretzels to Aayush to partially satisfy his m&ms craving, we’re excited to sleep in tomorrow!
Aayush wasn’t even allowed to turn around for this series today
The very crowded room
#engineering #notreallybecausetheaudiostilldidntwork
Haleigh offered to sing karaoke on this stage with the speaker microphone, but Chika wasn’t on board
Joke is actually on Aayush because Haleigh opened her eyes half a second later and that’s when Aayush took the picture, but then she had to teach him how to edit a live photo to get an earlier frame (don’t worry he was born in 2000 so his technology skills are justifiably limited)
After the projector screen fell four times and was also too small to see the whole screen, we realized the wall actually works fine
Our arms only mildly hurt from many tourniquets applied
Mary is going to become the new spokesperson for KFC Nigeria after this transformative experience