At Resuscitation Australia, ensuring our Accredited Course Centres and Instructors facilitate high-quality Advanced Life Support (ALS) training is only part of our mission. Knowing that ALS training is effective in clinical environments is what drives us to keep improving.
That’s why we’ve launched a clinical follow-up survey for ALS course participants, asking a simple but important question: how is your training translating in practice?
Why We’re Doing This
Our mission is to equip healthcare providers across Australia with the skills, competence, and confidence to deliver optimal patient outcomes. We do that through sector-leading, mixed-modality training and rigorous accreditation pathways. But evidence-based practice doesn’t stop at course delivery; it extends to evaluating whether that training makes a measurable difference when it counts most.
Resuscitation Australia’s Clinical Follow-Up Survey asks participants to reflect on how their ALS training has been applied in their clinical role. It is sent out a least a year since course completion, ensuring the results are based on application in practice. Their responses will help us identify what’s working, where we can do better, and how we can continue to strengthen our training nationally.
Developed through a rigorous Delphi process, the framework identifies outcome categories spanning learner knowledge and skills, clinical application, patient outcomes, and systems-level impact. These are summarised in the Resuscitation Education Outcomes Pyramid (Fig. 1, Cheng et al., 2026).
Figure 1: Resuscitation Education Outcomes Pyramid. Cheng et al., Resuscitation, 2026.
This tiered model illustrates how outcomes progress from instructor performance at the base, through learner outcomes in the training and simulated environment, up to patient and population-level outcomes in the clinical and real environment. It is a powerful reminder that what happens in training has consequences that reach all the way to the patient.
By aligning our data collection with this framework, we can contribute meaningfully to the global evidence base and ensure our findings can be compared and synthesised with research from around the world.
Looking Ahead
Systematic evaluation of training outcomes is how education improves. By taking this step, Resuscitation Australia is committing to a cycle of continuous improvement, one grounded in evidence, shaped by the experiences of the healthcare professionals we train, and ultimately focused on improving patient outcomes across Australia.
Reference: Cheng A, Lauridsen K, Greif R, et al., Uniform reporting of outcomes from resuscitation education research: the resuscitation education Utstein style: a consensus report from the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation., Resuscitation. April 19, 2026. Accessed April 28, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2026.111047
