Introduction While many graduate medical education programs require residents to be certified in advanced cardiac life support, this does not cover all aspects of cardiac stabilization in patients with a pulse. Residents are often on the front lines of providing care to patients with life-threatening dysrhythmias. Our residents expressed a lack of confidence in their ability to provide this care. Methods A convenience sample of internal medicine, preliminary medicine, and transitional year residents from our large community-based tertiary care hospital participated in our survey and training. We utilized a pre-post survey method of our residents’ confidence in domains that are critical to caring for patients requiring cardiac resuscitation and stabilization. Our pre-post survey was a modified Likert scale. Our training consisted of a 1-hour faculty-led hands-on training session focused on these critical domains in our hospital’s simulation suites. Follow-up survey data were collected immediately after the training and at six and 11 months after the training using mean confidence across all five domains as the study variable. Results Resident mean confidence in the five domains (placing leads and pads, manipulating defibrillator controls, performing defibrillation, performing synchronized cardioversion, and performing transcutaneous pacemaker use) increased immediately after our training compared to before the training (p
